What I would do with lots of cash: $1000: new PC. state of the art, no wait scratch that.. FUTURE TECH! $1,000,000: A House. not gonna lie.. a house.
you can tell, im very practical.
Programming competition: nope, never... soon inshallah.. I found one that I might be able to do Tomorrow. IMO that one with RPG maker and QuestForTheRoyalJelly doesn't count.
it was mostly RPG maker. but we had some Ruby scripts that e used. I coded only a few lines in it, most of it was downloaded scripts, for teh sounds and lighting effects.