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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.
- CodeSeniorNew
Forecasting Exchange Rates for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to collect monthly data for the past 5 years for GBP/USD and EUR/USD, along with relevant predictors (interest rate differentials, inflation, GDP growth, trade bala…
- Time Series Forecasting
- Econometric Modeling
- Python
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Detect Fraudulent Refund Requests for a Mid-Market Marketplace
You receive a labeled dataset with buyer history, seller history, shipping carrier, refund reason text, and outcome label (legit / fraud). Train and evaluate at least two classi…
- Classification
- Model Calibration
- Imbalanced Classification
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Crawler-and-Topic Pipeline for Public-Sector Web Analytics
You will build a polite, robots.txt-respecting crawler that ingests about 30,000 new posts/week across the 80 forums into a normalized dataset. Apply a topic model (BERTopic, wi…
- Web Crawling
- Topic Modeling
- NLP Pipeline
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Exploration Strategies for a Recommendation Bandit
You receive 60 days of anonymized impression/click logs covering around 200 content items and user features (cohort, listening history bucket). Build a contextual-bandit simulat…
- Contextual Bandits
- Thompson Sampling
- Ucb
Reinforcement Learning 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
- CodeIntermediateNew
Gaussian Process Regression for Wind Farm Power Curves
You receive 12 months of 10-minute SCADA data (wind speed, air temperature, power output) for 30 representative turbines, plus the manufacturer's published curve. Fit a GP with …
- Gaussian Processes
- Kernel Methods
- Uncertainty Quantification
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Model Diffusion of a Hashtag Across a Music-Discovery Platform
You receive 30 days of hashtag-usage data (about 2.4 million events) with account metadata and the follow graph between active hashtag users. Fit an information-diffusion model …
- Diffusion Models
- Network Analysis
- Causal Attribution
Social Network Analysis and Web Science - DesignSeniorNew
Provably Fair Approximation Algorithm for a Neobank On-Call Roster
Using the roster problem specification (roster-problem-spec), formalize the weekly on-call assignment as a constrained multi-week optimization problem, prove it is NP-hard by re…
- Approximation Algorithms
- Linear Programming
- Np Completeness
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
GPU-Parallel Graph Coloring for an EDA Tools Vendor
Implement Jones-Plassmann graph coloring in CUDA (or HIP if AMD hardware available). Input: a 12-million-node graph in CSR format (compressed sparse row). Output: a valid colori…
- Parallel Algorithms
- Gpu Programming
- Cuda
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- ResearchIntermediateNew
Disease-Progression Modelling for a Neurodegeneration Biotech
You receive a curated longitudinal Parkinson's cohort (about 1,200 patients, 4-12 visits each, MDS-UPDRS sub-scores, cognitive assessments, demographics). Fit (1) a linear mixed…
- Disease Progression Modeling
- Mixed Effects Models
- State Space Models
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Diagnose a Memory-Hierarchy Bottleneck in a Trading-System Hot Path
Receive the normalizer source (around 4,000 lines of C++17), a replay harness that feeds 30 minutes of recorded market data, and host-machine specifications (Intel Xeon Gold 634…
- Memory Hierarchy
- Performance Profiling
- Perf
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 - CodeBeginnerNew
Ship a Lightweight ML Microservice for an EdTech Reading App
You receive 3 months of session telemetry (around 50M reading events, child-anonymized). Engineer features per session window, train a small classifier (logistic regression base…
- Feature Engineering
- Model Serving
- Containerization
Applied Machine Learning Build a verifiable portfolio.
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Refit a Pricing Model for an Insurance Comparison Site
You receive 9 months of quote-impression data (about 14 million events) with about 60 features and click labels. Refit logistic regression with elastic-net regularization plus a…
- Regularized Regression
- Feature Interactions
- Calibration
Statistical Machine Learning - AnalysisSeniorNew
Stochastic Inventory Policy for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
Using historical demand data (provided), fit a demand distribution and determine optimal (s, S) or (R, Q) policy parameters. Consider perishability (seasonal collections) and a …
- Inventory Optimization
- Stochastic Modeling
- Simulation
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
3D Vision and Multi-View Geometry - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Build a Topic-Modeling Pipeline for Citizen Feedback
Take the 60,000 comments (anonymized). Build a BERTopic pipeline with multilingual sentence embeddings (Catalan + Spanish + occasional English). Tune number-of-topics via topic-…
- Topic Modeling
- Bertopic
- Multilingual NLP
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Refactor a Legacy Reporting Script for a Renewable-Energy Startup
Read the existing script and identify 5-7 distinct responsibilities tangled together. Refactor into 3 layers: data loaders (CSV, REST API), transformers (pure functions over row…
- Abstraction
- Higher Order Functions
- Refactoring
Programming Abstractions - CodeIntermediateNew
Forecasting Model for Online-Game Daily Active Users
Build forecasts at 14-day horizon per region using: (1) classical baseline — SARIMA or Prophet; (2) ML approach — gradient-boosted regressor on engineered features (day-of-week,…
- Supervised Learning
- Time Series Forecasting
- Python Programming
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - DesignFoundationalNew
Build a Tic-Tac-Toe-Style Game Agent for an Edtech Demo
Implement Connect-Four (7-column, 6-row board) in Python plus a minimax agent with alpha-beta pruning, configurable search depth, and a simple heuristic evaluation function for …
- Game Playing Ai
- Minimax
- Alpha Beta Pruning
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate Speech Synthesis Voices for an EdTech Storyteller App
You will generate 60 audio clips (20 per vendor) covering 4 story genres and 3 emotional tones. Recruit 15 native Spanish speakers via a remote panel (Prolific or local equivale…
- Tts Evaluation
- Listening Studies
- Mos Scoring
Open coursework - 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 - CodeFoundationalNew
Parallelize an Image-Processing Pipeline with Data Parallelism
Your analysis task is to take the serial pipeline module and its configuration (provided as 'serial-pipeline-module'), run it against the representative image batch described in…
- Data Parallelism
- Python
- Multiprocessing
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Audit Safety Stops for a Cafe-Service Robot Pilot
You receive 30 days of logs covering 240 near-miss events (close approach to a human, low-battery emergency, network loss). For each event, classify whether the safety stop trig…
- Safety Analysis
- Incident Review
- Failure Mode Analysis
Robotics - CodeSeniorNew
Implement Threshold Signatures for a Multi-Sig Custody Service
Read the FROST IETF draft (draft-irtf-cfrg-frost) and the underlying Schnorr signature scheme on the secp256k1 curve. Implement the FROST distributed key generation (DKG) and 3-…
- Applied Cryptography
- Threshold Signatures
- Rust
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