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Cyber Security Analyst
100/200 - There are tons of great cryptography decoders, encoders, and detectors online. Here are a few good ones that might help you:
https://www.dcode.fr/tools-list#cryptography
https://www.dcode.fr/cipher-identifier
750 - Don't know what hexadecimal is? https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/hexadecimal#:~:text=Hexadecimal%20is%20a%20numbering%20system,%2C%20D%2C%20E%20and%20F.
1000 - Link to websites:
The "room"/level this challenge focuses on specifically:
Hardware/Electrical Engineer
100 - Link to binary translator: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qylxw3a2b7zz5r5zd120f/binary.txt?rlkey=fjbpsetdhsgw170mft7a5ggy0&dl=0
500 - Lost on what area of engineering you want to research? Here's a list of sub-categories of engineering that may help you:
https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/alphabetical-listing
1000 - Examples of logic gates:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/logic-gates-building-blocks-digital-circuits-deekshith-kumar/
https://byjus.com/jee/basic-logic-gates/
Software Developer
Tools:
Free online IDE - https://codehs.com/ide
*For those of you who don't know, IDE stands for "integrated development environment". It refers to any kind of software you can run code files out of.
Free downloadable IDE - https://code.visualstudio.com/
Link to glitch.io IDE for the 1500 challenge - https://glitch.com/edit/#!/gleaming-few-soccer
Introduction to HTML & CSS course - Don't have any background in HTML or CSS? No problem. Freecodecamp has a beginner-level course you can take to learn!: https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/2022/responsive-web-design/
Leetcode link - https://leetcode.com/
UX/UI Designer
Tools:
Free online sketchpad - https://sketch.io/sketchpad/
General-purpose graphic design - https://www.canva.com/
Link to Figma.com - https://www.figma.com/
Online photo editor - https://www.photopea.com/
Free Adobe Illustrate alternative - https://inkscape.org/
1500 - Figma tutorial - If you've never used Figma before, here are some good resources to start you off:
https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/sections/4405269443991-Figma-for-Beginners-tutorial-4-parts
https://youtu.be/p3qn52pThnc?si=9VqghNvMklJ_l206
Computer Science Educator
Free online course for every programming language - Sololearn has a course for every programming language, toolkit, or framework out there. If you need to learn a new language for any of these challenges, or teach it to someone else, create an account and start any of their free courses on Python, Javascript, C++, and more.
Free online IDE - https://codehs.com/ide
*For those of you who don't know, IDE stands for "integrated development environment". It refers to any kind of software you can run code files out of.