Computer Science
Programming Fundamentals Challenges
Programming Fundamentals challenges put you inside the work of writing code that is correct, readable and fast. You'll build core skills in functions & data structures, object-oriented design and design patterns, work in Python or JavaScript, and learn to do code reading and refactoring the way teams expect.
From there you'll tackle the harder edges — algorithm analysis, complexity analysis, graph algorithms and generics & type systems — pushing into performance engineering, low-latency programming patterns and systems-language proficiency (Go, Rust, C++). Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Dataflow-Based Dead-Code Detector for a Python Monorepo
Build a Python tool using libcst (or ast + jedi) that constructs a call graph across the monorepo. Account for indirect references (entry points in setup.py / pyproject.toml, dy…
- Dataflow Analysis
- Ast
- Call Graph
Program Analysis - CodeBeginnerNew
Tabular Q-Learning for Warehouse Slotting
You receive a Python discrete-event simulator with state encoded as a 12-dimensional categorical vector (around 8,000 reachable states) and 6 possible slotting actions, plus 2 y…
- Tabular Rl
- Q Learning
- Epsilon Greedy
Reinforcement Learning - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Continuous Eval Pipeline for an Enterprise RAG Product
Design (and partially build) a continuous-eval pipeline for a RAG system: (1) a structured eval set with at least 50 queries grouped by query class; (2) automated scoring (LLM-a…
- Continuous Evaluation
- LLM Evaluation
- RAG Architectures
AI Measurement and Evaluation - CodeIntermediateNew
Code Review and Refactoring of a Legacy E-Commerce Module
You are given a codebase (Java/Spring Boot) of the order module. Perform a static analysis, document issues (e.g., god classes, tight coupling), and write a refactoring proposal…
- Code Review
- Refactoring
- Python Or Javascript
Software Engineering and Quality Assurance Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- CodeSeniorNew
Plan Under Uncertainty for a Warehouse Restocking Robot
You receive a discrete-event simulator of a 1,200-shelf warehouse with calibrated optical-scanning error rates and stock-out cost per shelf. Formulate the restocking decision as…
- Planning Under Uncertainty
- Pomdp
- Monte Carlo Planning
Advanced Robotics - CodeIntermediateNew
Safety-Critical Test Harness for an AV Planner
Use CARLA (open-source AV simulator) and encode 10 representative safety scenarios across 3 categories (cut-in, pedestrian emergence, signalized-intersection right-of-way). Writ…
- Simulation
- Scenario Testing
- Safety Evaluation
AI for Autonomous Vehicles - CodeBeginnerNew
Ship a Churn-Prediction Mini-Project End to End
You receive a 12-month anonymized dataset of subscriber events (logins, lesson completions, payment history, support tickets) for around 200,000 users. Define churn precisely (n…
- Feature Engineering
- Model Evaluation
- Gradient Boosting
AI/ML Practicum and Hands-on Lab - CodeBeginnerNew
Design a Race-Free Cache for a Read-Heavy Service
Implement a thread-safe LRU-bounded cache in Java (or Go — your choice, defend it) with: read-write lock or copy-on-write semantics, get-or-load pattern with single-flight to de…
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Race Conditions
- Single Flight
Concurrent and Parallel Programming - Browse challenges
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Build a Public Open-Data Dashboard for Urban Mobility
Pull the city's open-data cyclist-collision dataset (10 years of incidents, geocoded). Define a clear before/after window around the protected-lane rollout, control for traffic-…
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Data Wrangling
- Geospatial Analysis
Applied Data Analysis and Practical Data Science - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Hybrid Recommender for a Niche Consumer-AI Music App
You receive listening events (around 240 million plays) plus a content embedding per track (audio + curator tags). Build a collaborative filtering model (ALS or implicit-feedbac…
- Recommender Systems
- Collaborative Filtering
- Content Based Filtering
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - CodeIntermediateNew
Prototype a Computer-Vision QA Tool for a Robotics Manufacturer
As a 4-person team, build: (1) a labeling pipeline on around 2,000 component images (Label Studio is fine); (2) a transfer-learned classifier or a small segmentation model that …
- Computer Vision
- Transfer Learning
- Model Deployment
AI Software Engineering Group Project - CodeBeginnerNew
Forecast Hourly Energy Demand for a Microgrid Operator
You receive 24 months of hourly demand, weather (temperature, irradiance), and calendar data for the community. Build a probabilistic forecaster (e.g., quantile regression with …
- Probabilistic Forecasting
- Quantile Regression
- Deep Forecasting
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- CodeFoundationalNew
Classify Retail Product Photos for an E-Commerce Marketplace
Use a publicly-available product-image dataset (e.g., Fashion-MNIST extended, or a Kaggle e-commerce subset of around 10k images across 12 categories). Fine-tune a small pretrai…
- Cnn Classification
- Transfer Learning
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
Computer Vision (Undergraduate) - CodeBeginnerNew
Predictive Churn Model for Bangalore D2C Cosmetics
You will analyze a provided dataset of 10k customers with features like purchase frequency, average order value, time since last purchase, pages visited, support tickets, and su…
- Python Or Javascript
- Scikit Learn
- Logistic Regression
Machine Learning and AI for Business - ResearchSeniorNew
SAT-Based Planner for Smart-Grid Demand Response
Encode the dispatch problem (which customers to curtail by how much, respecting per-customer contractual caps and grid-cell totals) as a SAT or MaxSAT instance. Solve 50 histori…
- Sat Based Planning
- Constraint Encoding
- Benchmarking
Automated Planning - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Sentiment Analysis for Tel Aviv D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are provided with a dataset of 10,000 customer reviews (in English) with no labels. Your task is to preprocess the text, develop a sentiment classification model using NLP t…
- Text Preprocessing
- Sentiment Analysis
- Classification
Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Federated Learning for a Government Statistics Office
Use Flower as the FL framework. Simulate 8 municipalities each with a partition of a synthetic wage dataset (provided, 1M rows, EU-Labour-Force-Survey schema). Train a gradient-…
- Federated Learning
- Differential Privacy
- Python Or Javascript
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies - CodeBeginnerNew
Prototype a Multimodal Visual-Question-Answering Demo
You will use a small open-source vision-language model (e.g., LLaVA-1.5-7B or PaliGemma) and prompt-engineer it for the warehouse-VQA task. Build a Gradio web demo. Construct a …
- Vision Language Models
- Multimodal Perception
- Prompt Patterns
Machine Perception - CodeIntermediateNew
Localize a Mobile Robot with Particle-Filter SLAM
You receive 4 ROS bags from real customer plants, each containing 2D LiDAR scans, wheel odometry, and ground-truth poses (from a motion-capture cell used only for evaluation). I…
- State Estimation
- Particle Filter
- Slam
Advanced Robotics - ResearchBeginnerNew
Drug-Repurposing Candidate Screen with Embedding Similarity
You receive (1) a list of 15 known therapeutic candidates (SMILES + ChEMBL identifiers) for a single rare disease, (2) a database of about 4,500 marketed drugs (SMILES + ATC cod…
- Molecular Embeddings
- Similarity Search
- Transfer Learning
Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biomedicine - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Vector-Search Backend for an Enterprise AI Knowledge Assistant
You receive a corpus of around 20,000 PDFs (mixed scanned and digital) totalling around 30 GB and a labeled retrieval set of 200 queries with human-judged ground-truth passages.…
- RAG Architectures
- Vector Database Basics
- Word Embeddings
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Spectral-Analyze Wearable Sleep Data for a Healthtech Pilot
You receive 30 nights of wearable data per 25 volunteers, with polysomnography-derived ground-truth stages (Wake / NREM / REM). Engineer spectral features (delta, theta, alpha, …
- Spectral Analysis
- Feature Engineering
- Wavelet Analysis
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting - CodeFoundationalNew
Replace a Naive List with a Heap in a Delivery Dispatcher
Read the current dispatcher source (around 400 lines of Python). Identify the linear scan and the operations that touch it (insert, decrease-key on a re-scored courier, extract-…
- Heap Data Structure
- Complexity Analysis
- Python Or Javascript
Data Structures - CodeBeginnerNew
Image Search for a DTC Furniture Retailer's App
Use a pretrained vision-embedding model (CLIP ViT-B/32 or DINOv2-small). Index a catalog of around 1,500 furniture images. Curate a small evaluation set of around 50 user-style …
- Image Embeddings
- Vision Transformers
- Image Search
Computer Vision (Undergraduate)
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