Challenge Overview
TopCoder and the TopCoder community have worked hard to get the platform to its currently level of maturity, but we're far from done. It's time to take the platform to the next level. TopCoder is going to start taking some steps to open up the platform API to the outside and community developers so they could incorporate it in their websites, applications or build their own applications (web, mobile or desktop).
The ultimate goal is to open up and build an "API" that is targeting all different type of audiences - Software and Studio Competitors, SRM/MM competitors, Copilots, Admins and TopCoder partners - each audience will have different interests and usages of the API, so it will be a huge project and we need to make sure that we are in the right direction from the beginning.
At this stage, we have the platform and we have the community, what is missing is a "true" RESTful API for the platform, we are not planning on building everything needed to expose the Platform API to the public, we want to use an API Management Product that can simplify and help us in this process.
In this contest we are building a REST services for some of the contest management functionalities in TopCoder Cockpit.
Full Specification : http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/docs/Module+Architecture+-+TopCoder+Contest+Management+REST+API+1
Final Submission Guidelines
Full Specification : http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/docs/Module+Architecture+-+TopCoder+Contest+Management+REST+API+1