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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.
CodeBeginnerNewKnowledge-Graph Recommender for a Lisbon Bookstore
Using the catalog sample (catalog_sample), build a knowledge graph whose nodes are books, authors, genres, themes, eras, and awards, and whose edges capture relationships such a…
- Knowledge Representation
- Knowledge Graphs
- Python Programming
Open coursework- CodeIntermediateNew
Design an Anti-Corruption Layer for a Legacy Hospital EHR
Map the legacy EHR's HL7 v2 message schema (ADT, ORM, ORU segments) to the new platform's domain (Patient, Encounter, Order, Result). Identify the 6-10 anti-patterns in the lega…
- Anti Corruption Layer
- Hl7 Integration
- Domain Modeling
Domain-Driven Design - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Audit a Hiring-Screening Model for Demographic Bias
You receive: (a) inference API access to the production model (black-box), (b) a 12,000-resume audit benchmark with self-declared gender and age-band labels (consented, GDPR-com…
- Fairness Metrics
- Bias Auditing
- Model Evaluation
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - 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
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
IDE-Assisted Refactoring Bootcamp for a Junior Backend Team
Design a 5-day curriculum centered on 10 katas chosen for refactoring-pattern coverage (e.g., Gilded Rose for replace-conditional-with-polymorphism, Tennis kata for extract-meth…
- Refactoring
- Katas
- Ide Tooling
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection - CodeIntermediateNew
Secure a LoRaWAN Sensor Network for Cold-Chain Logistics
Read the LoRaWAN 1.0.x vs 1.1 spec (the network runs 1.0.3). Design the new key management: device-unique AppKey + NwkSKey, rotation every 90 days for the warehouse devices (the…
- Lorawan
- Wireless Security
- Key Management
Wireless and Mobile Networks - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Source-to-Source Migration Tool for a Legacy API
Use Python's libcst (concrete syntax tree library) to parse customer code while preserving formatting. For each of the 14 transformations, write a CST visitor that matches the v…
- Abstract Syntax Trees
- Source To Source Transformation
- Python
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Calibrate a Multi-Camera Rig for Warehouse Robotics
You will design and prototype a calibration workflow using a printed ChArUco board (a chessboard with embedded ArUco markers). You receive a sample dataset of 200 raw frames per…
- Camera Calibration
- Multi View Geometry
- Opencv
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Frame the business question, model the options, build the recommendation. From market sizing to competitive analysis, this role is where strategy consulting meets in-house decision-making.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Prove a gRPC Migration for a Kubernetes Control-Plane API
Examine three things: the captured control-plane traffic record (`traffic-7d`), the current REST API specification (`openapi-spec`), and the representative Go service module (`g…
- Grpc
- Protobuf
- API Design
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Rule-Based Intent Classifier for a Customer-Support Triage Bot
Build a rule-based classifier in Python that runs ordered rules (regex + keyword + simple heuristics) against ticket subject + body. Use a hierarchical rule structure (high-prec…
- Knowledge Representation
- Rule Based Systems
- Python Programming
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS Elective) - ResearchIntermediateNew
Design a Capability Evaluation for an Open-Weights Coding Model
Pick a recent open-weights coding model (e.g., a Qwen, DeepSeek, or Llama variant). Design an evaluation set of around 40 coding tasks across 4 buckets: standard benign coding, …
- Capability Evaluation
- Safety Evaluation
- LLM Evaluation
AI Safety and Alignment - CodeBeginnerNew
Diagnose and Fix a Deadlock in a Multi-Threaded Payments Service
Receive the service source (Java 21 + Spring Boot, around 30,000 lines), 4 thread dumps from production deadlocks, and a load harness that reproduces the bug roughly 1 in 50 run…
- Deadlock Analysis
- Locks And Monitors
- Java
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Customer-Segmentation Study for a DTC Subscription Box
Use 18 months of anonymized data: order history, churn events, NPS responses, box-rating data, referral activity, marketing-channel attribution. Engineer features (RFM-style + b…
- Unsupervised Learning
- Python Programming
- Ml Applications
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - CodeIntermediateNew
Natural Language Inference for an HR-AI Compliance Tool
Use SNLI/MNLI/ANLI as starting data and curate 200 domain-specific HR examples (synthetic or anonymized) for fine-tuning. Fine-tune a small encoder (DeBERTa-v3-base or similar),…
- Natural Language Inference
- Transformer Models
- Fine Tuning
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Profile and Optimize a Virtual-Memory-Heavy Image Pipeline
Receive the Go pipeline source, a representative batch (1,200 photos averaging 12MB each, with 30 outliers over 80MB), and host specs (4-core, 16GB RAM, Linux kernel 5.15). Run …
- Virtual Memory
- Performance Profiling
- Memory Hierarchy
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Reliable Transport Layer Over UDP
Implement in Go: connection establishment (3-way handshake), sequenced and acknowledged data segments, retransmission timer with exponential backoff, fast retransmit on triple d…
- Tcp Ip
- Reliable Transport
- Udp
Computer Networks - CodeBeginnerNew
Hybrid Search RAG for a HR-Policy Assistant
You receive 1,800 pages of policy documents (Markdown) and 150 labeled question-answer pairs with the gold source policy IDs. Build a hybrid retrieval pipeline: BM25 + dense emb…
- Hybrid Search
- Bm25
- Dense Retrieval
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Implement Async Message-Passing for an IoT Gateway
Receive the current gateway source (Python 3.11, single-threaded paho-mqtt client + a serial HTTP forwarder, ~1,100 lines), a sensor-simulator that fans out 500 mock sensors at …
- Async Programming
- Message Passing
- Asyncio
Concurrent and Parallel Programming - DesignBeginnerNew
Greedy Delivery-Slot Assignment for a Munich Grocery Startup
Using the provided order history sample, rider roster, and manual dispatch baseline, design and implement a greedy slot-assignment algorithm in Python. The algorithm must (1) so…
- Greedy Algorithms
- Algorithm Analysis
- Python
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) - CodeSeniorNew
Coordinate a Fleet of Warehouse Robots
Implement a simulated warehouse grid with 80 robots solving a pick-and-deliver workload. Design a decentralized coordination protocol (recommend a contract-net or auction-based …
- Multi Agent Coordination
- Decentralized Algorithms
- Simulation
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Port a CPU Monte-Carlo Simulator to GPU for an Energy Trader
Receive the existing simulator (C++17 + OpenMP, around 5,000 lines), the test book (around 8,000 spread options), and access to an H100 80GB. Port to CUDA: random-number generat…
- Gpu Programming
- Cuda
- Monte Carlo
Advanced Concurrency and Parallel Computing - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Is the Optimal Vet-Scheduling Feature Computationally Tractable?
Working only from the materials provided — the product feature specification, the de-identified internal record of the customer request, a representative one-day appointment dat…
- Np Completeness
- Complexity Theory
- Algorithm Analysis
Open coursework - 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
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