Hello World Challenge

Requirements for this challenge

As your introduction to the Bluemix platform, build and upload a basic "Hello World" application to Bluemix.

NOTE: This is the 2nd time this challenge has been run.  If you submitted and passed review on the previous challenge you may not submit for this a second time.  If you do, your submission here will fail review.

Challenge Prizes

This challenge is part of the Topcoder Cognitive Community challenge series.  There are no cash prizes.  You will win Cognitive points toward the leaderboard and the leader at the end of the challenge series wins an all expenses paid trip to TCO 17.

Setup

1. If you have not already, go to http://cognitive.topcoder.com/  and click the Join the Topcoder Cognitive Community Button. Fill out the registration form and confirm your email address.

2. Go to the challenge forum and follow the thread on how to setup or extend your Bluemix trial account.  Doing so will give you a Bluemix account without requiring you to enter your credit card information. Even if you did this on the last challenge, do it again to extend your free trial further for this challenge.

Required Steps for this Challenge

1. Fork this Bluemix Starter Pack to your own Repo: https://github.com/topcoderinc/Topcoder-StarterPack_BluemixNode

2. Follow the deployment instructions to deploy to your own Bluemix Account with the url format: tc-<yourhandle>-01hw.mybluemix.net

3. If deployed correctly, this url: https://tc-<yourhandle>-01hw.mybluemix.net/api/test
Should show this: {"success":true}

Final Submission Guidelines

Final Submission Guidelines

1. Upload your Hello World application to Bluemix

2. Provide your application URL in a zipped text file and upload it to the challenge.