Beginner Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the beginner level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- DesignBeginnerNew
Propose a Cryptographic Target State for a Checkout Stack
Working solely from the four supplied materials — the stack architecture case file, the testssl.sh export corpus, the cryptographic configuration specification, and the best-pra…
- Cryptography
- Tls
- Pci Dss
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Chain-of-Thought for High-School Math Tutoring
You receive 80 practice problems across 4 topics (linear equations, factoring, systems of equations, quadratics), each with the correct answer and an expected age-appropriate ex…
- Chain Of Thought Prompting
- Zero Shot Prompting
- Few Shot Prompting
Prompt Engineering - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Tax Strategy for a Copenhagen D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to research the EU VAT rules for cross-border e-commerce, including the One Stop Shop (OSS) scheme. You must evaluate the tax rates in Denmark, France, Italy, and S…
- Tax Analysis
- EU Vat
- Cross Border Ecommerce
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Negotiate a Retail Alliance for a Seoul Skincare Brand
Using only the materials provided, build a negotiation strategy that Soo-jin Park can take into talks with Daehan Drug Mart. Read the partnership file to understand the relation…
- Batna Analysis
- Distributive Bargaining
- Integrative Negotiation
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Launch Campaign for Singapore D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are the marketing intern at GlowSG. Your task is to develop a comprehensive campaign plan including media mix, budget allocation, key messaging, and a timeline. Success mean…
- Integrated Marketing Communication
- Media Planning
- Budget Allocation
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build an Embedding-Based Semantic Search for a Legal-Document Corpus
Embed the 380k-document corpus using a multilingual sentence-transformer (e.g. multilingual MPNet or LaBSE). Store embeddings in FAISS or pgvector. Build a search service that r…
- Deep Learning
- Ml Applications
- Python Programming
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - StrategyBeginnerNew
Code Review Bootcamp for an Early-Stage Mobile Team
Read the team's last 100 merged PRs (export provided) and tag the 10 worst review threads (rubber-stamp, bikeshed, missing context). Draft a 4-page code-review guideline coverin…
- Code Review
- Team Coaching
- Process Design
Software Construction - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Diagnose Churn Drivers for a B2B SaaS Workflow Tool
You receive three CSV exports: 18 months of weekly product-usage events for about 1,800 accounts, the full support-ticket history, and account firmographics (industry, size, pla…
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Data Wrangling
- Feature Engineering
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Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Rate and Structure a Spanish Green Bond Issuance
Using the Aurelia Renovables financial statements dataset, calculate the core credit metrics over the three reported years: interest coverage, net-debt-to-EBITDA leverage, funds…
- Credit Analysis
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Bond Covenants
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design an Offline-First Android Field-Survey App for Wildlife Rangers
Using only the four provided materials, design a native Android application in Kotlin (with Jetpack Compose for the interface) that targets the rangers' rugged handsets describe…
- Mobile Development
- Android Kotlin
- Sensors
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Revitalizing a Legacy Retailer's Digital Strategy
Your task is to conduct an industry analysis using Porter's Five Forces, assess the company's internal resources via a VRIO framework, and develop a strategic recommendation for…
- Industry Analysis
- Competitive Strategy
- Digital Transformation
Strategic Management - ResearchBeginnerNew
Curate a Domain Lexicon for a Climate-Tech NLP Stack
You receive 5,000 policy documents and a benchmark of 200 documents with manually tagged domain terms. Curate a lexicon of ~1,500 terms with (1) canonical English form, (2) Swah…
- Lexical Resources
- Named Entity Recognition
- Spacy
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Platform Launch Strategy for a Lisbon D2C Cosmetics Startup
You are a digital strategy consultant hired by Brilho. Your task is to develop a 12-month platform launch strategy. Constraints: limited budget (€500k), a team of 10 engineers, …
- Platform Design
- Network Effects
- Business Modeling
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
CI/CD Pipeline for a SaaS Monorepo with 14 Services
Set up Nx (or Turborepo) for affected-graph computation. Configure remote build cache (S3-backed) so cached steps skip across runs and developers. Parallelize jobs in GitHub Act…
- Ci Cd
- Monorepo
- Nx
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Convert an Imperative Recommendation Service to Pure Functional Style
Take the Python ranking module (around 900 lines). Identify side-effects (DB reads, cache lookups, logging, time) and lift them to the boundary. Rewrite the ranking core in Scal…
- Scala Programming
- Pure Functions
- Functional Core Imperative Shell
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
AI-Powered Customer Sentiment Analysis for a Fintech App
You will receive a dataset of 500+ anonymized app reviews and tweets. Using AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude, you must craft prompts to classify sentiment (positive, negative, ne…
- Prompt Engineering
- Sentiment Analysis
- Data Visualization
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Build a Restoration Workflow for a Digital Heritage Archive
You receive 50 high-resolution scans of glass plates plus 3 reference 'gold' restorations done by a senior conservator. Design a reproducible workflow combining inpainting for s…
- Image Restoration
- Inpainting
- Tone Mapping
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Define SLOs and Error Budgets for a Real-Time Trading API
Pull 90 days of API latency + error data per endpoint from Prometheus (anonymized exports provided). Propose Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for 3 services × 2 SLI types (availa…
- Slo Definition
- Error Budgets
- Sli Design
Site Reliability Engineering - DesignBeginnerNew
Build a PlatformIO CI Pipeline for a Multi-Board Firmware Team
Use GitHub Actions + PlatformIO. Build matrix across the 6 boards. Run native unit tests + QEMU-based emulation tests for boards that QEMU supports. Set up a self-hosted runner …
- Platformio
- Github Actions
- Embedded Ci
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Afeela Joint-Venture Post-Mortem: Lessons in 50/50 Governance
Using the Afeela Joint-Venture Dossier (afeela-dossier) as your primary record, the Benchmark Joint-Venture Capsules (benchmark-jv-capsules) for comparison, and the Sony Honda M…
- Joint Venture Analysis
- Governance Design
- Case Research
Open coursework - ResearchBeginnerNew
Run a Stakeholder Discovery Program for a Hospital Records Replacement
Using the discovery context and stakeholder roster in the case file, design and run a structured program of 38 interviews (45 minutes each) covering the 28 clinicians, 6 technol…
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Requirements Elicitation
- User Interviews
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Mine Association Rules for a Grocery Retailer's Promo Strategy
You receive 6 months of basket-level transaction data (around 22 million baskets, around 18,000 SKUs) plus a category taxonomy. Run association-rule mining (Apriori or FP-Growth…
- Association Rules
- Market Basket Analysis
- Apriori
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Production HTTP/2 Load Balancer Configuration
Design a multi-region topology: anycast edge -> regional Envoy clusters -> origin services. Specify HTTP/2 connection pooling (max connections per upstream, idle timeout), retry…
- Application Protocols
- Load Balancing
- Envoy
Computer Networks - CodeBeginnerNew
Design a Domain Model for a Library Loan System (Java)
Implement, in Java 21, an Item type hierarchy (Book, AudioBook, Periodical, EquipmentLoan — each with sub-type-specific rules), Member with eligibility logic, Loan as an aggrega…
- Java
- Oo Design
- Domain Modeling
Object-Oriented Programming and Design
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