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Computer Science Challenges
Real computer-science projects on Ewance — put algorithms, data structures, and systems thinking to work on real-world problems. Solve them to build a portfolio of verified, recruiter-checkable proof you can do the work — not just describe it.
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Prototype an Embedded Dashboard for an EV Charger
Define the 3 user modes (driver: 4 screens, operator: 5 screens, technician: 3 screens) and their entry conditions (NFC card type, PIN, technician key). Build a 12-screen protot…
- Embedded Ui
- Figma
- Framer
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a CPU-Only Teaching Rasterizer in C++
Using the provided test-scene model file and the reference render image, implement a software rasterizer in C++ that runs only on the central processor. Build the supporting mat…
- Rasterization
- Geometric Transformations
- 3d Rendering
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design an Interactive Subway On-Time Performance Visualization
Using the provided arrival-performance sample dataset, design a small-multiples layout — one compact panel per subway line — that uses a horizon-chart encoding to show on-time p…
- D3
- Webgl
- Interactive Visualization
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Bloom Filter Cache to Cut Origin Load at a CDN Edge
Given a target false-positive rate of 1 percent at 200 million keys per shard, compute the optimal bit-array size (m) and hash-function count (k) using the canonical formulas. I…
- Bloom Filters
- Probabilistic Data Structures
- Hash Functions
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- ResearchBeginnerNew
Designing Comfortable VR Locomotion for a Mobile Game Studio
Build a Unity test harness on Quest 3 with one short forest level and 3 toggleable locomotion modes (smooth with vignette, teleport, dash). Recruit 18 playtesters (mix of VR-exp…
- Vr Development
- Immersive Design
- Usability Testing
Virtual and Mixed Reality - CodeSeniorNew
Prototype an Augmented-Reality Hip-Implant Planning Overlay
Build a HoloLens 2 application that loads a three-dimensional bone scan from the sample medical imaging data ('hip-dicom-samples'), renders it as a placeable hologram, and lets …
- Ar Development
- Mixed Reality Applications
- 3d Interaction
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Voice-First Picking Model for a Warehouse Tablet App
Using the partner-warehouse case file and the touch-app interaction inventory, map the current picking workflow and select the eight highest-frequency interactions to move to vo…
- Interaction Design
- Voice Ui Design
- Contextual Inquiry
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a UV-Preserving Mesh Simplification Pipeline for 3D-Scan-to-Web
Using the textured high-resolution meshes in the scan corpus (scan-corpus), the engineering constraints in the engineering brief (engineering-brief), the integration contract in…
- Geometry Processing
- Mesh Simplification
- 3d Rendering
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- CodeSeniorNew
Rebuild a Fair Single-Selfie Avatar Pipeline at NorthRoom
Using the prior-attempt postmortem (provided), the cohort manifest (provided), the FairFace public image set (provided link), the FLAME face-model resource (provided link), and …
- Digital Humans
- Geometry Processing
- 3d Rendering
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Redesign the Daily-Engagement Loop for a Smoking-Cessation App
Using the product case file, audit the current daily-engagement loop screen by screen and map each screen to specific behavior-change techniques from the published taxonomy, nam…
- Behavior Change Design
- Hci Research Methods
- Interaction Design
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Build Co-Located Mixed-Reality Engine Inspection Training
Build a Unity prototype that supports three people wearing Magic Leap 2 headsets (or Quest 3 with passthrough as a fallback) in the same physical room, all seeing one shared vir…
- Mixed Reality Applications
- Multiplayer Xr
- Shared Anchors
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Raft Consensus Layer for Multi-Region Active-Active Replication
Using the engineering brief, the production fault profile, and the starter Go module declared in the provided materials, design and build a Raft-based consensus layer and prove …
- Distributed Consensus
- Raft
- Fault Tolerance
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Randomized Load Balancer with the Power of Two Choices
Simulate four placement policies on a 24-hour anonymized connection-establishment trace (around 4.1 billion events): (1) random-1, (2) round-robin, (3) P2C with instantaneous lo…
- Power Of Two Choices
- Load Balancing
- Randomized Algorithms
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Parallelize a Monte Carlo Risk Engine for a Quant Fund
Starting from the provided single-threaded C++ engine module (engine_scalar.cpp) and the provided benchmarking and equivalence specification (parallelization-spec), profile the …
- Parallel Algorithms
- Shared Memory
- Work Stealing
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Bulk Synchronous Parallel PageRank for a Web-Graph Lab
Working from the lab situation record (`lab-case-file`), implement 25 iterations of PageRank under a Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) model using either Apache Spark with GraphX …
- Parallel Algorithms
- Bsp
- Graph Algorithms
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Index a Reference Genome with a Suffix Array in Rust
Using the reference-genome FASTA in the provided materials, build an in-memory suffix array (DC3 or SA-IS construction) over the 4-letter DNA alphabet in Rust, then implement co…
- Suffix Arrays
- String Algorithms
- Rust
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Model Bogotá's Bike-Share Network as a Graph for Overnight Rebalancing
Using only the supplied station directory, the aggregated origin-to-destination trip table, and the operations brief, build a directed weighted graph where each station is a nod…
- Graphs
- Networkx
- Shortest Path
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Reservoir Sampling for a Privacy-Preserving Telemetry Pipeline
Implement Vitter's Algorithm R (and the faster Algorithm L for bonus credit) producing a 90M-event uniform sample per day from a stream of 18B. Add per-key stratification (so lo…
- Reservoir Sampling
- Randomized Algorithms
- Streaming Systems
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
AR Try-On Web Experience for a Mid-Cap Eyewear Retailer
Build a Three.js + MediaPipe Face Mesh prototype that runs in a mobile browser (Safari 17+ and Chrome 119+). Load 12 frame SKUs as glb (Graphics Language Transmission Format Bin…
- Ar Development
- Webxr
- 3d Interaction
Virtual and Mixed Reality - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement and Tune HyperLogLog for Trace-Stream Cardinality in Go
Working from the HyperLogLog paper (provided as a real source) and the provided representative trace sample, implement HyperLogLog from scratch in Go with no third-party algorit…
- Randomized Algorithms
- Sketching
- Algorithm Analysis
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Redesign Stadig's Onboarding to Stop the Screen-3 Drop-off
Using the current four-screen flow described in the onboarding flow specification and the funnel numbers in the onboarding analytics dataset, run a heuristic evaluation of the e…
- User Centered Design
- Usability Testing
- Heuristic Evaluation
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Intelligent Interface Spec for an AI-Assisted Code Review Tool
Audit current AI-surface inconsistencies and map every AI signal to a confidence band (high / medium / speculative / unverified). Design a unified intelligent-interface spec: su…
- Intelligent Interfaces
- Interaction Design
- Hci Research Methods
Advanced Human-Computer Interaction - DesignIntermediateNew
Accessibility-First Redesign of an Airport AR Navigation Feature
Using the current feature description in the provided augmented-reality navigation specification, map the existing experience against the two provided legal and technical standa…
- Design For Accessibility
- Interaction Design
- Contextual Inquiry
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design-System Component Library in Figma for a Travel Brand
Audit the existing app across the 7 squads to inventory every variant of each component (screenshot grid). For the 12 priority components, design canonical variants using Figma …
- Design Systems
- Figma
- Component Libraries
User Interface Design and Prototyping
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