Welcome! I had nothing to do, so I decided to put up a very newbie challenge. Please read specifications.
Level (0-5): 0-Newbies
Restrictions: None
Files: It is attached.
Scenario: DMMA Corporation, a company whose accounting personnel cannot add numbers, hired a programmer do code a software specifically to add integers. After a few days, the programmer has partially finished the software and submitted the executable for beta testing. At that time, the company is in the brink of bankruptcy. This event prevented the company to compensate the programmer for the work he has done.
Of course, the programmer got furious when he learned about this. So what he did was he permanently deleted all his source files, making sure that it cannot be recovered in any way. Then he simply left the company.
The company, after learning about the disappearance of the programmer had no chance of getting another programmer (of the same caliber) to do the job, start from scratch again (since the sources were all deleted beyond recovery). All they had was the unfinished build that was submitted to the beta testing department, which after a few sessions -- they found a huge bug.
So they though, why not make use of the existing build? So they spread the word, looking for someone who could do just that.
And you. Yes you. You heard the news. It's your decision to grab the opportuniy or not. Are you gonna take it?
Goal: Find out what the bug is, then repair it without the original source code by any means necessary. Once done, write a simple tutorial or article how you did it, then post in your devpinoy blog or devpinoy forum. Write a comment saying that you have solved it and link to your article. Good luck!
Please note that successfully solving this problem will not get you any prize, not that I don't want to, I just can't, BUT what you get is knowledge. Sabi nga ni ka-Ernie, "kung walang knowledge, (all together now) walang power". This is just for fun, so... have fun!