We'll kick off this post with an update, i have been doing the security override challenges as previously discussed however i have been stuck on Basic 2 (no judgement here!) for longer than i care to admit.
I started off the way i solved the previous challenge, by inspecting the element and after almost literally fine tooth combing through the bloody code, i was back to the point where i had initially started off looking at. Now, i can pretty much hear you screaming through your monitors saying "Beth! you complete moron, it was so obvious!", i know. But the whole point of the basic challenges are to introduce a tiny bit of tech but to open your style of thinking up.
So after sitting there essentially staring at the same bit of code, i broke and had a quick search through the SO forums, all they pretty much told me was that the jedi i was looking for wasn't there and to translate that into none Beth-Speak, i was looking at the right part but the pure simplicity of the answer was yet to dawn on me. So in this particular area i was looking at this:
So i looked up the various input types, value types etc, really if i could have researched more, i'd have died with my eyes glued to the screen. I then tried the obligatory pass.html because i had a gut feeling that it was the major part in solving it.
You may be asking yourself at this point, "Beth, why on earth did you not just google it??"
Well minions, i'll tell you why. Because then i wouldn't have learned the lesson on how to figure it out, someone would have just told me how to do it and to me that's cheating because i haven't figured it out myself.
You may feel that that is a harsh view but ya know, that's my view, deal with it.
I'm not going to give any more hints than that because its dawned on me that i've been giving answers away and i'll be damned if i work out stuff so others don't have to.
But when it clicks into place for you minions, the feeling is great :D
BTW - If you want to check out a friend of mines blog, its totally worth reading for the tech content, its about 5 levels above my knowledge at least.
http://www.hackingtheperimeter.com/
Toodles minions!
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