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Your brain needs exercise just like a muscle. If you use it often and in the right ways, you will become a more skilled thinker and increase your ability to focus. But if you never use your brain, or abuse it with harmful chemicals, your ability to think and learn will deteriorate.

Therefore ,when it come up to the point of education and intelligence some people just ignore the relationship between skills boosting and the education process that affects their ability to innovate and to be creative witch creates a gap called "education's death valley" .

Through this article am going to share with you a bunch of contests and activities for different background that helps you as student and specially as a Tunisian individual to escape this gap .

About BIL Mjezz El BEB

It was an excellent opportunity to meet new people ,It's just incredible to share things with such an inspirational audience .Am extremely glad to be one of the speakers in this event .

You can find my ppt source here Presentation

Programming contests ?!

1. Acm ICPC

The ACM ICPC is considered as the "Olympics of Programming Competitions". It is quite simply, the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world. The ACM-ICPC (Association for Computing Machinery - International Collegiate Programming Contest) is a multi-tier, team-based, programming competition.

Headquartered at Baylor University, Texas, it operates according to the rules and regulations formulated by the ACM. The contest participants come from over 2,000 universities that are spread across 80 countries and six continents.

2. ACM TCPC

The ACM TCPC (Tunisian Collegiate Programming Contest) is Tunisia national championship held annually under the auspices of ACM.

3. Google HashCode

Hash Code is a team-based programming competition organized by Google for students and industry professionals across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

4. Top Coder

Topcoder is a company that administers contests in computer programming. Topcoder hosts fortnightly online competitive programming competitions—known as SRMs or "single round matches"—as well as weekly competitions in graphic design and development

Programming training online ?!

1. Code Force

Very popular website used for training sessions .Almost every week a round contest is published in the platform .
Join now !
http://codeforces.com/

2. Code Chef

CodeChef is a non-profit educational initiative of Directi. It is a global competitive programming platform which supports over 50 programming languages and has a large community of programmers.
Join Now !

https://www.codechef.com/

3. GeekForGeek

A Computer Science portal for geeks.Supports all the programming language with courses and different levels for beginners ,medium and expert ! .Very good platform to start with !
Join Now !
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/

4. ICPC Baylor

Official training platform of the ACMICPC
https://icpc.baylor.edu/scoreboard/

Security and CTFs ?!

What is CTF !!?!

Capture the Flag (CTF) is a special kind of information security competitions. There are three common types of CTFs: Jeopardy, Attack-Defence and mixed. Jeopardy-style CTFs has a couple of questions (tasks) in range of categories. For example, Web, Forensic, Crypto, Binary or something else.

Hackfest

Hack fest is the national security contest in Tunisia that have a large of participants every years !.
http://www.hackfest.tn/

Hackzone ENSI

Hack-zone is one the oldest ctfs in Tunisia ,and the most funny ,troll challenges ever ! yes ! I do enjoy playing the hack-zone contest ! I like their sprite ! totally authentic .

SecuriNets CTF

Securinets is a security club in ISI .One of the leaders of the ctfs too with a large community of people who share the same matter about security .

http://www.securinets.com/

Getting started with CTF and security ?!

There are a lot of documents founds in the internet ,but ,am sharing with you here the most important ones according to my experience .

Root-ME

Root Me is a platform for everyone to test and improve knowledge in computer security and hacking.
https://www.root-me.org/?lang=en

Pwnerrank

Pwnerrank is a Tunisian plateform with a good community ,the challenges are pretty good ,and you can share your own ones .
The skills you need. If you are bored of long documents, courses and training materials that tell you everything. In PwnerRank take only exactly what you need.
https://www.pwnerrank.com/

LiveOverFlow youtube Channel

Just two words ! "Brilliant" ,"Excellent" ! just impressive ! follow this channel .
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w

Exploit exercises

Provides a variety of virtual machines, documentation and challenges that can be used to learn about a variety of computer vulnerabilities.
https://exploit-exercises.com/

CTF field guide

So, learn to win at Capture The Flag (CTF). These competitions distill major disciplines of professional computer security work into short, objectively measurable exercises. The focus areas that CTF competitions tend to measure are vulnerability discovery, exploit creation, toolkit creation, and operational tradecraft.
https://trailofbits.github.io/ctf/

More resources !

Truly ! it's an infinity of resources just keep seeking and google it ! it's your turn now . For international daily contests keep checking CTF time website .
https://ctftime.org/

Read write ups !

Read write ups Easy !!

Bugs Bounty program ?!

What is Bugs bounty program ?!

A bug bounty program is a deal offered by many websites and software developers by which individuals can receive recognition and compensation for reporting bugs, especially those pertaining to exploits and vulnerabilities.

Bugcrowd

oin us and gain access to the largest security researcher community in the world. Hack on cool companies, take home cash, work on your own schedule, make an impact. We’re looking for talented web, mobile, IoT, and hardware security researchers.
https://bugcrowd.com/join-the-crowd

Google Bugs Bounty

Google has enjoyed a long and close relationship with the the security community. Part of this relationship involves providing cash rewards for quality security research that identifies security vulnerabilities in products that we provide or proactive security improvements to select open-source products..

https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/programs-home/

Entrepreneurship and Startups in Tunisia ?

Startup pirate Tunisia by CDCP

Startup pirate Tunisia is created by the CDCP(Centre pour le Développement des Compétences Professionnelles ).It 1 week of training session with highly level entrepreneur and professional where you learn how to bootstrap your own startup and how to join your skills to create the future enterprise .
Join now !
http://www.tunis.startuppirates.org/

ElGazala Innovation Center ?!

Elgazala Innovation Center is an ecosystem in which research and development projects are conducted. The center is part of Elgazala Technopark, which is one of the leading science and technology parks in the MENA region. Elgazala Innovation Center includes three main components:

1. An entrepreneurial space where innovative ideas are pre-incubated. The main support by the center at this level is oriented towards the prototyping of the ideas. To this purpose, the entrepreneurs have free access to software and hardware development kits as well as connections to renowned experts operating in the enterprises hosted at Elgazala Technopark.

2. A postgraduate research space in which doctorate and post-doctorate researchers validate their algorithms, protocols and approaches through the development of prototypes that are deployed in the Technopark. The advantages of this approach is two-fold: (a) the research contributions have a concrete impact on the local ecosystem and (b) the researchers acquire practical skills that provides them the ability to contribute to the development of the local business.

3. Lab spaces in which testing and validation tools are set up in order to assess the performance of the prototypes developed by the entrepreneurs and the researchers. The labs currently implemented at the innovation center are the African Laser Laboratory (applied photonics), Arab Beidu research center (satellite navigation), and NATEG Fablab (embedded systems and product design).

Esprit Incubator

Sorry I have not enough information about them ,I have attended a conference about ,but ,i still can not figure out how it works !!
Just visit their website !
http://esprit.tn/esprit-incubator/

Sesame Incubator !

Is new Incubator launched i guess in 2015-2016 ,they try to workout with startups and boosts the skills of launchers ! .
Join now !
https://universitesesame.com/lancement-de-sesame-digital-incubator/

Co-working spaces ?!

What is a co-working space !!?

Coworking is a style of work that involves a shared working environment, often an office, and independent activity. Unlike in a typical office environment, those coworking are usually not employed by the same organization.Typically it is attractive to work-at-home professionals, independent contractors, or people who travel frequently who end up working in relative isolation.

Cogite

This is one of the greatest co-working space in !Tunisia !! ,totally interactive ,and beautiful place to innovate ! ,I just appreciate the work behind this place !
Join now !
https://www.cogite.tn/

Startup Haus Tunis

Startup Haus Tunis is the first of its kind, offering unique resources and state of the art facilities, local and international expertise and global opportunities for talented entrepreneurs in downtown Tunis.

Join now !
http://startup-haus.org/

El Space

We are a group of entrepreneurs, Freelancers, geeks, of changemakers. Come discuss trends in technology, innovation, business, and employment prospects. Our meetings are technical, but also focused on you.
Join Now !
https://www.meetup.com/coworking-space-tunisia/

Hacker Spaces

What is hackerSpace ?!

Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people share their interest in tinkering with technology, meet and work on their projects, and learn from each other.
Learn more about this !
http://hackerspaces.org/

El Gazala HackerSapce

ELGAZALA HACKERSPACE is an iot (Internet Of Things) hub that connects members from different backgrounds who share common interests to work on cutting-edge ideas.
Join now !
https://elgazalahackerspace.github.io/
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Ghazela_Hackerspace

HackerSpace Djerba

Sorry I can't find a lot information about it !
Visit their wiki page
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Hackerspace_Djerba

Root space

Root space is hacker-space for a security experts ,security lovers and CTF players ! .It looks interesting but I can't provide more information about it .

MakerLab

MakerLab est un makerspace ou un Atelier de fabrication pluridisciplinaire, ouvert aux jeunes (élèves et étudiants) et à toutes autres personnes intéressées à utiliser de manière créative les nouvelles techniques pour réaliser leurs propres projets numériques. [OK it's Frensh -_- ]