Hey all, want to join our awesome programming sector in Royalty run by me?

We're here with a lovely contest, only 3 people will gain entry. You can pick from one of the three following tasks, do note there are strict requirements on entries.

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Requirements:
1. No scam reports (open/unresolved/valid)
2. You must not be involved in any criminal or questionable activity
3. Morals are required, immoral people need not apply
4. You must produce a final result yourself, you can work in a team but each individual must produce an original entry
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Challenge #1

Your task is to create a blogging platform with a WYSIWYG editor, ability to set public/private/password-protected posts, with XSS/CSRF protection, and bruteforce protection. You can write this is any programming language you feel comfortable with!

Challenge #2

Your task is to create a tool that will extract data from multiple websites (ie, pastebin, debpaste, etc) and have a searchable interface (either via CLI or Web), and produce all results to a file. Note: you may not use public APIs to gather this data, you must create your own crawler. Usage of 3rd party crawling modules will result in disqualification. You can write this in any programming language you feel comfortable with!

Upon complete, PM me what you have and I'll test and tell you if you've passed or not, if you pass, you get access to a password-protected subforum in Royalty and access to a ton of private goodies (along with being in Royalty)

Let's begin

PMing for help will result in disqualification

(Dec 9, 2016 10:45 AM)[▲*****●] Wrote:  Challenge #2: what data should be extracted? Do we choose something or is that up to the user

1. You say users can pick from three challenges, but only two are listed. Is this intentional? Or an oversight?
   
2. Given just those two challenges, they seem extremely complex and time consuming, but I don't see how either are meant to give insight into the coding ability of an individual. How are you judging applicants based off of their submissions? The complexity of the code? Understanding of object oriented/functional programming? What do you hope to learn about them through either of these tasks in specific?
   

(Dec 9, 2016 06:06 PM)D3xus Wrote:  I have two questions.

1. You say users can pick from three challenges, but only two are listed. Is this intentional? Or an oversight?
   
2. Given just those two challenges, they seem extremely complex and time consuming, but I don't see how either are meant to give insight into the coding ability of an individual. How are you judging applicants based off of their submissions? The complexity of the code? Understanding of object oriented/functional programming? What do you hope to learn about them through either of these tasks in specific?
   

(Dec 9, 2016 06:11 PM)exploit.c Wrote:  2. They're not complex at all, I'm able to hammer them out in about 15 minutes, with Googling it'd take you 30-45 minutes at max, there's even youtube series about them - you just have to put in the time and effort. Baring in mind that I'll be checking to ensure you didn't just steal someone else's work/modify others. I'm judging on multiple factors, let me example them:

(Dec 9, 2016 06:17 PM)Sin+ Wrote:  I'd have to disagree with that; the second one I could probably knock out in an hour or so, but the first one would definitely take some time. That is, if you wanted one with at least some form of quality. 🤝