Quick Start

To quickly start a secure coding challenge:

  1. Head to game https://play.secdim.com/

  2. Click on one the available games (e.g. JavaScript, Pathway)

  3. Click on "Start Here" challenge and watch the video tutorial.

  4. Click on Play and complete the onscreen tutorial

  5. Click on "Open In CDE" to start a cloud-based Visual Studio Code

  6. Click on "Ready" to open the Visual Studio Code

  7. Follow along the commands in the terminal

    1. To run the app: make run

    2. To run usability tests: make test

    3. To run security tests: make securitytest

  8. Make the changes to the source code as per video tutorial

  9. Run security tests (make securitytest) again to ensure they pass

  10. Push your changes to the remote git repository (make push)

  11. Navigate to the challenge tab and observe the output of the tests. If they pass you will get the score for the challenge.

If you don’t have CDE access, see Complete Challenges Locally for more options.