an AOL chatroom posted:

Sorry I didn't see this earlier. In order, you download vscode and install the mainframe plugins to get connected to our system. Then you do some stuff with files (data sets and members), run some jobs and look at the output (JCL), and then log into the UNIX side of things to touch things from the command line. Then it gets into some more modern methods of touching files with ZOUA through Python.

That's the first half of it. From there, you start loading and managing data into a VSAM data set (kind of a hybrid file/database construct) using a command line utility (Zowe CLI), write some stuff in REXX (an amazing scripting language), some other stuff in COBOL (nowhere near as difficult as people make it out to be), and then do a whole bunch of stuff with Ansible.

The final grand challenge is mostly open-ended. You pick something from what you saw and build something of your own. If you hand in *anything*, you finish Level 3 and get that badge. If you're a student and create something amazing, you're eligible to win the grand challenge and get fame and fortune.