Using Codebashing as a User

An Overview of Codebashing

Welcome to Codebashing! You should know a few features of Codebashing to ensure you get the most out of your experience. Select the relevant dropdown section to learn more about joining Codebashing, navigating between your courses, lessons, assessments, and tournaments, and tracking your progress and achievements.

Joining Codebashing

To join Codebashing, you either must authenticate via SSO or have an administrator invite you to join without registering. If you authenticate via username and password, you may also be invited by an administrator either to directly join Codebashing or to register yourself.

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Users who are invited to join, only have to accept the invitation and they are in, otherwise, they must register themselves.
When you register or accept an invitation, you are asked to create a password with at least 6 characters of which at least two must be either upper-case letters, numbers, or special characters.

Codebashing offers three modules that present different approaches to testing your knowledge in an individual or a competitive format:

Module	Approach
Assessment	Focuses on self-assessment and testing your knowledge non-competitively.
Challenge	Challenges your knowledge individually, but you are listed along with your teammates in a leaderboard.
Tournaments	You compete against your peers in real time.

For a more detailed comparison of the three test and competition approaches, refer to Comparing the Codebashing Modules.

The table below details information on your primary course and lists your lessons. From here, you can begin your lessons and designate a course as your primary course. For detailed information and instructions, refer to the table below.

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Users can change their primary courses if allowed by the administrator in account settings.

Element	Description
	The current primary course.
	The percentage completion rate of the course.
Lessons Completed	Indicates the number of completed lessons (and the ones remaining). If you switch to a different primary course, from Java to .NET, the number of lessons will update to reflect the lessons completed in the newly selected primary course. If you switch back to Java, the number of lessons completed in Java will be reflected.
Points	The points you achieved from the primary course.
	Click to start your first lesson on the primary course.
	Click to start the next lesson.
	Click to change the primary course. This option is available only if the administrator allows users to change their primary course in account settings.
Indicator for completed lessons	A completed lesson is labeled with a green checkmark. A lesson that has not yet been completed or started is labeled with a gray checkmark.
LESSON	Displays the name of the lesson. To start a lesson, follow its link. You do not have to take the lessons according to the order in the list.
COMPLETION TIME	The time it took you to complete the lesson.
PLAY COUNT	This counter indicates how many times you took the lesson.
POINTS	The number of points you scored in this lesson.

Courses

Courses are preset into your Codebashing platform. For a list of pre-configured courses and their related list of lessons, refer to the course catalog.

Note administrators may design custom lessons to address specific cases.

Select Courses at the top of the home page to open the course list.
Navigate to the desired course and click <Start> to open the lesson list.
Depending on whether you have already started the course, do one of the following:
- To start the course, click <Start>. The course starts with the first lesson.
- If at least one lesson has been completed, the <Start> button is replaced with a course progress indicator. The lessons you already completed are labeled COMPLETED.
- Click the desired lesson or somewhere in its highlighted green section to begin a lesson.

Before beginning, you can read the summary and goals of the lesson. When ready, select Let's Play.

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If you are inactive for 50 minutes during a lesson, you receive a warning that you will be logged out and lose your progress.
Scores accumulate with every run of the lesson. For example, if you complete the lesson twice and score 1000 points during the first run and 500 points during the second run, your total score for the lesson will be 1500 points.

Element	Description
	>_codebashing - Click to return to the Codebashing homepage. Java - Click to return to the list of lessons for this course. In this case, you are on the XXE Processing lesson of the Java course. XXE Processing - Indicates the lesson that you are taking.
	The first step of the lesson: an explanation of what is going on in the training field on the right side. To continue to the next step, follow the instructions in the ! ACTION section, in this case, click <Next>.
	The steps of the lesson: Click at the top of the sidebar to view the headers of each step. The sidebar indicates the current step, in this case, the user is on step 2 of his lesson after performing the required action in step 1. To return to a previous step, select it in the sidebar. Notice Advancing to the next step is only possible by following the instructions in the ! ACTION section.

Element

Description

>_codebashing - Click to return to the Codebashing homepage.

Java - Click to return to the list of lessons for this course. In this case, you are on the XXE Processing lesson of the Java course.

XXE Processing - Indicates the lesson that you are taking.

The first step of the lesson: an explanation of what is going on in the training field on the right side.

To continue to the next step, follow the instructions in the ! ACTION section, in this case, click <Next>.

The steps of the lesson:

Click at the top of the sidebar to view the headers of each step.
The sidebar indicates the current step, in this case, the user is on step 2 of his lesson after performing the required action in step 1.
To return to a previous step, select it in the sidebar.

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Advancing to the next step is only possible by following the instructions in the ! ACTION section.

Navigate next to the relevant lesson you would like to share, for example, SQL Injection, click the Share icon, then enter the teammate's details as defined in the table.

Setting	Description
Copy the following URL to share with your colleague!	Click <Copy> to copy the URL to this lesson into the clipboard.
To	Enter the email address of the intended teammate.
Personalize your message	Enter some free text with a greeting to explain why you share this lesson (optional).

Click <Send Now!> to share the lesson. Your teammate receives an email with your greeting and a short introduction to the lesson.

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Sharing a lesson with your teammate or anybody else earns you a badge.

The table below lists and illustrates your training progress as follows:

Progress Report	Description
COMPLETED	The progress in your current training assignments (in %). This progress report includes the lessons of your primary course and the lessons assigned to you.
LESSONS COMPLETED	The number of completed lessons in this assignment. In some cases, a lesson may be part of the primary course and also be assigned to you as an Assigned Lesson. If you complete it, it is counted only once as a completed lesson.
POINTS EARNED	The number of points you scored during all the training assignments until now.

Progress Report

Description

COMPLETED

The progress in your current training assignments (in %). This progress report includes the lessons of your primary course and the lessons assigned to you.

LESSONS COMPLETED

The number of completed lessons in this assignment.

In some cases, a lesson may be part of the primary course and also be assigned to you as an Assigned Lesson. If you complete it, it is counted only once as a completed lesson.

POINTS EARNED

The number of points you scored during all the training assignments until now.

Assessments

As a user or developer, you will receive assessments to measure your understanding of Codebashing lessons. Your administrator or an authorized manager can send a link to the assessment via email or chat or include you as a participant while creating the assessment. Access the assessment within the given timeframe.

Taking the Assessment:

Follow the link you received in the invitation and select Start.
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- Following this link, your assessment is listed at the top of the user dashboard .
- Also, there may be older assessments listed- ones you have completed or haven't started yet.
Under Select Your Language, select the code language covered in your assessment, and then click <START THE ASSESSMENT>.
In this example, the user selected Java.
Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the assessment.

Challenges & Challenges Leaderboard

Challenges are a great way to check your understanding of a completed course.

You can select Challenges from the top of the home page to open the Challenges list. The listed challenges reflect the courses from the course list.

The Challenges Leaderboard displays the top achievers in all challenges and their scores and your own rank.

Navigate to the desired challenge and click <Take the Challenge>.
Click <TAKE THE CHALLENGE to begin.
Follow the onscreen instructions. Select the correct answer within the timeframe.
An indicator updates you on how many total questions you answered correctly and incorrectly answers you gave and how many questions you answered out of the total.
Example 1. Challenge
You are currently on the 9th out of 10 questions. 8 questions have been answered of which you answered 3 incorrectly (red line). Once you complete all the questions, you can view your score.
Click <SEE YOUR SCORE>. Your score appears together with the correct answers out of the total number of questions.
Return to the Challenges page by clicking <SEE CHALLENGES PAGE>. The page will reflect your recently completed challenge.

Tournaments

Tournaments are a great way to test what you learned in a friendly competition.

Tournaments are set up and scheduled by the administrator and appear in the Tournaments section on your homepage once scheduled.

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Before you start, verify that WebSockets is running on your browser. For additional information, refer to Creating a Tournament.

Navigate to the newly added tournament and click <JOIN TOURNAMENT NOW>. Begin by selecting an avatar, assigning a nickname, and selecting the framework you feel most comfortable with.
Click <JOIN THE TOURNAMENT> to start.
Answer the questions together with your team. The questions usually consist of code reviews and multiple-choice questions on vulnerability issues. To answer a question, choose the correct answer and click <SUBMIT> within the remaining time indicated by the timer.

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You can answer every question only once. Once you click <SUBMIT>, the button turns gray and becomes unavailable.
If you do not answer within the remaining time, the question times out and is marked incorrect.
The correct answer is displayed only after the remaining time has elapsed.

From the top of the home page, select Tournaments. A list of previous tournaments and the tournaments you competed in appears. Tournaments you participated in include a link to your results.
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If you were invited to a tournament but did not participate, the tournament appears listed, but its link to the results will be missing.
Click <SEE RESULTS> to expand and display the tournament results described below.

Tournament Summary:

Characteristics	Sample Value	Description
Rank	1/3 7349 pt	Displays your rank out of the total number of players and your score (in points).
Winner	Jonny	The name of the winner.
Framework	Java	The framework you selected.
Correct Answers	4/20	The number of correct answers out of the total number of questions. Questions that timed out are considered incorrect.
Weakest Vulnerability	DOM XSS	Questions on this vulnerability yielded the most incorrect answers.
Strongest Vulnerability	Vertical Privilege Escalation	Questions on this vulnerability yielded the fewest incorrect answers.

Vulnerability:

A bar diagram illustrates the order from the strongest to weakest vulnerability according to the percentage of your incorrect answers.

Breakdown:

Characteristics

Sample Value

Description

Correct Answers

4/20

You answered 4 out of 20 questions correctly.

Round

The tournament round number of a given question.

Question#

The question number.

Vulnerability

Stored (Persistent) XSS

The name of the vulnerability in the question.

Correct/Wrong

Correct or incorrect answer.

Answers Breakdown

The total of correct answers by your team.

This board displays the participants sorted according to the score they achieved.

Table Entry	Description
#	The rank of the user. Number 1 is the winner.
NAME	The user name of the respective user.
SCORE	The number of points that the user scored during the training.

In this section:

Using Codebashing as a User

An Overview of Codebashing

Joining Codebashing

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Courses

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Assessments

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Challenges & Challenges Leaderboard

Tournaments

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