We’ve teamed up with our friends at The Pragmatic Studio to give you the chance to win any one of their courses worth up to $200! Not only that, we have 12 to give away in 2025!

About the prize

When developers want to deeply learn a language or framework, they turn to The Pragmatic Studio. They create clear and concise video courses for busy developers. Courses that are up-to-date, to the point, and quickly move you from confusion to "Aha, now I get it!” You come away with the knowledge and confidence to build full-featured applications. Mike and Nicole's current courses include Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Ruby, and Rails.

How to enter

At the start of the year we pick a random 6-digit Lucky Number which is displayed on our competition page for all to see. To enter the competition, all you have to do is log in via your Devtalk account and receive your weekly entry which is a randomly-generated entry number.

You can obtain a new entry number each week. At the end of the year, if any of your numbers turn out to be one of the 12 closest to the Lucky Number, you win!

This year's Lucky Number

781343

So far this year there have been 177 entries in the competition.

View all entries this month »

To make things more exciting, every now and then, we will announce special bonus days. These are days when you will be able to obtain a bonus entry into the competition. Some of these bonus entries will have a condition, such as first needing to make a post on the forum, or following or mentioning us (or The Pragmatic Studio!) on social media. As long as you have met the criteria, you can get your bonus entry. Bonus days will be announced on the forum so be sure to regularly log in!

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Terms

  1. The competition will run from the first day of the year until the last day of the year.
  2. Entry to the competition is restricted to one entry per person per week plus any additional qualifying bonus entries announced by the competition administrators.
  3. Entry to the competition is limited to one person per household.
  4. Automated entries, bulk entries or third party entries will be disqualified.
  5. To obtain a weekly entry you just need to have posted that week. Bonus entries may be subject to special conditions which you will be required to meet before you submit your entry. Failure to meet these criteria or conditions in a legitimate manner and any attempts at cheating will result in instant disqualification from the competition.
  6. Any suspicious entries or user accounts will be disqualified at the forum administrator's discretion. This includes members holding multiple accounts on the Devtalk. If more than one person is entering the competition from your IP please let us know in advance (we will require photo verification of each participant in this case).
  7. The prize consists of one individual course published by The Pragmatic Studio. Bundled offerings with multiple Pragmatic Studio courses are not eligible for selection.
  8. No cash alternatives will be offered.
  9. The competition organiser reserves the right in its sole discretion to substitute any prize with cash or a prize of comparable value.
  10. Entrants must be aged 16 or over.
  11. If you are a winner, you will be required to provide your full name, country of residence and a suitable email address so that this can be passed on to The Pragmatic Studio to send you your prize. Failure to provide your details within 21 days of winners being announced in our annual update will result in your disqualification as a winner and an alternative winner will be selected.
  12. The forum username of all winners will be displayed on our website forum.devtalk.com and may be used by The Pragmatic Studio for promotional reasons.
  13. The Judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered in to.
  14. If you are a competition winner, you acknowledge and agree that neither forum.devtalk.com or The Pragmatic Studio or any of their employees, agents or subcontractors shall have any liability to you whatsoever in connection with your use and/or possession of your prize, provided that nothing in these competition terms shall exclude or limit the liability of any party for personal injury or death caused by negligence or for anything else which cannot be excluded or limited by law.
  15. Each user may win the competition only once.
  16. In the event of a tie, the user whose entry was made first will win.
  17. forum.devtalk.com is compliant with the Data Protection Act. No personal data is collected as a result of participating in this competition beyond winners' names, country of residence and email addresses which are required for delivery of prizes. The Pragmatic Studio will record the winner as an order in its fulfilment systems.
  18. These rules may be updated at any time, in which case the latest version will apply.
  19. The competition prize is subject to The Pragmatic Studio's usual terms and conditions.
  20. Please note bundled offerings with multiple Pragmatic Studio courses are not eligible for selection.

Find out more about the prizes by visiting:
https://pragmaticstudio.com