Beginner Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the beginner level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Requirements Elicitation for a Sustainable Fashion Platform
Conduct stakeholder interviews (simulated via provided personas) and create a requirements specification. Include functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, accep…
- Requirements Elicitation
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
Software Engineering and Quality Assurance - AnalysisBeginnerNew
COBIT Alignment for a Singapore D2C Cosmetics Startup
You are a junior IT governance consultant hired by the startup. Conduct a gap analysis using COBIT 2019, identify 5 key governance processes to implement in the next 6 months, a…
- It Governance
- Cobit 2019
- Gap Analysis
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Choose a Sidecar Cache Store for a Hotel-Search API
Using the captured workload trace and the platform requirements brief in the provided materials, design a proposal that selects one of Redis, KeyDB, or DragonflyDB as the sideca…
- Nosql
- Redis
- Benchmarking
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Diversify Raw-Material Sourcing for a Boston Natural-Cosmetics Brand
Working from the supplier portfolio dataset and the leadership situation memo provided to you, build a strategic sourcing plan for GlowUp Naturals' key raw materials. Use the da…
- Strategic Sourcing
- Supplier Evaluation
- Risk Management
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- ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate a Generative AI Image Tool with a Within-Subjects Study
You will write a study protocol, recruit 20 participants (a Discord callout is fine), counterbalance the two conditions, and run 45-minute sessions over Zoom. Collect three meas…
- Experiment Design
- User Study
- Within Subjects Design
Human-Computer Interaction for AI Systems - DesignBeginnerNew
Sketch a Custom Gaussian-Blur Accelerator for a Smart-Camera Chip
Using the provided C reference implementation of the 5x5 Gaussian blur, work out a hardware datapath that produces one finished output pixel every clock cycle by sliding a 5x5 w…
- Hardware Accelerators
- Datapath Design
- Performance Modeling
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Image-Classification Model for a Quality-Control Line at a Bottling Plant
Train an image classifier on 8,000 labeled bottle images (3 defect classes + 'ok'). Use transfer learning from a pre-trained backbone (EfficientNet-B0 or MobileNetV3) — the line…
- Deep Learning
- Supervised Learning
- Ml Applications
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - StrategyBeginnerNew
Build a Credible ESG Governance Framework for Glow & Green
You are a junior ESG consultant engaged by Glow & Green. Using only the de-identified company case file (gg-case-file), the investor ESG demand memo (investor-esg-memo), the cus…
- ESG Frameworks
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Governance Design
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Assessing Political Risk for a Spanish Solar Firm in Indonesia
Students must produce a political risk report for SolMadrid's board, including a country risk score (0-100) using a custom weighted index, a qualitative assessment of key risk f…
- Political Risk Analysis
- Country Risk Assessment
- Geopolitical Frameworks
Geopolitics for Business - CodeBeginnerNew
Implement Authentication and Access Control for a Civic Portal
Receive the current Next.js + Express prototype, the data model (residents, requests, documents, audit log), and the 4 staff roles (resident, clerk, supervisor, auditor) with th…
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Rbac
Introduction to Computer Security - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Lease Accounting for a Restaurant Chain
Your team's task is to implement ASC 842 for Taco Fresco's 50 leases. You have a spreadsheet with lease data: commencement dates, terms, renewal options, annual rent (including …
- Lease Accounting
- ASC 842
- Present Value
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Diagnose and Optimize Inventory for a Milan Cosmetics Brand
Work only from the two materials you are given: a daily sales dataset covering the past twelve months for the ten products, and a parameters brief listing each product's price, …
- Excel Modeling
- Vba Programming
- Demand Forecasting
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Multiples Valuation for a SaaS Scale-Up Going Enterprise
Your team must select a peer group of 8-10 public SaaS companies that started PLG and later added enterprise sales. Compute forward EV/Revenue multiples and assess CloudFlow's r…
- Comparable Company Analysis
- Revenue Multiples
- Rule Of 40
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Robust Image Classifier for a Climate-Tech Satellite Startup
You receive a labeled dataset of about 25,000 Sentinel-2 patches (positive = illegal construction visible, negative = not). The dataset is split by region AND by season so you c…
- Data Augmentation
- Deep Learning
- Pytorch
Advanced Deep Learning - StrategyBeginnerNew
Pick a Forecasting Stack for an Edtech Engagement Team
You will produce a 6-page strategy memo evaluating three paths: (1) in-house forecasting team (2 engineers), (2) open-source stack (statsforecast + neuralforecast), (3) forecast…
- Ai Strategy
- Build Vs Buy Analysis
- Vendor Evaluation
Open coursework - 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
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
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Responsive Web Redesign for SaaS Scale-up
You are to redesign the TaskFlow website's homepage, pricing page, and a new 'Enterprise' landing page. The redesign must be responsive (mobile-first) and built with HTML/CSS/JS…
- Html
- Css
- Javascript
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Quantize a Vision Model for a Smart-Doorbell SoC
You receive a trained FP32 PyTorch person-detector (mAP 0.74 on a 5k validation set) plus a calibration dataset of 500 unlabeled doorbell frames. Convert to ONNX, then apply pos…
- Quantization
- Model Optimization
- Onnx
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Redesign Sales Incentives for a Scaling Software Company
Using the anonymized monthly sales-performance dataset and the company background and current-plan case file you are given, design a single replacement commission plan for the s…
- Incentive Design
- Compensation Analysis
- Sales Strategy
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 - StrategyBeginnerNew
Estimate and Schedule a 16-Week Custom CRM for an Agency Client
Read the 22-page SOW (statement of work). Decompose into a 3-level work-breakdown structure (~80-110 leaf tasks). Estimate each leaf using 3-point (optimistic/most-likely/pessim…
- Estimation
- Scheduling
- Work Breakdown Structure
Software Project Management - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cluster a Telco's Subscriber Base for a Pricing Refresh
You receive 12 months of anonymized subscriber-level data: monthly minutes, SMS, mobile data, top-up frequency, top-up amount, churn flag, and tenure. Clean and feature-engineer…
- Clustering
- Feature Engineering
- Exploratory Data Analysis
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Greening the Munich D2C Cosmetics Supply Chain
Your task is to conduct a life cycle assessment (LCA) of Glow Naturals' best-selling moisturizer, identify the biggest environmental hotspots, and recommend changes in sourcing,…
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Circular Economy
- Supply Chain Analysis
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