Beginner Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the beginner level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Redesign Glow Naturals' Mumbai Last-Mile Delivery Network
Using the delivery records in 'GN-DELIVERY-LOG', the operational account in 'GN-OPS-FILE', and the unit costs and constraints in 'GN-COST-AND-CONSTRAINTS', diagnose where Glow N…
- Route Optimization
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Supply Chain Design
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Optimize Hyperparameters with Bayesian Optimization on a Tight Budget
You receive a B2B-SaaS churn dataset (about 12,000 customer-month rows, 38 features) and a fixed sweep budget of 40 trials per model family. Implement a Bayesian optimizer (Optu…
- Bayesian Optimization
- Hyperparameter Tuning
- Ensemble Methods
Advanced Machine Learning - StrategyBeginnerNew
PMO Pilot for a Mid-Cap Engineering Org
Audit 4 pilot teams over 1 week: backlog, work-in-flight, cross-team dependencies, ad-hoc requests, slip history. Design a lightweight PMO covering: portfolio view (Notion + Lin…
- Pmo
- Portfolio Management
- Intake Design
Software Project Management 
CodeBeginnerNewBuild a Search-Based Delivery Router for a Madrid Grocery Startup
Build a Python service that exposes a single /route endpoint. It accepts a courier's starting location, a list of delivery stops, and a traffic window, and returns the stops in …
- Search Algorithms
- Intelligent Agents
- Python Programming
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Migrate Glow Naturals to Dynamics 365 Business Central
Your analysis task is to turn the documented situation in the 'Glow Naturals current-state file' (CASE-001) into a defensible migration blueprint, using the legacy data sample i…
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Business Process Mapping
- Data Migration
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Hybrid Work Model for a Bangalore D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to develop a hybrid work model for the startup. Analyze the current remote work challenges, propose a structured hybrid schedule (e.g., fixed office days, core coll…
- Hybrid Work Design
- Remote Team Management
- Organizational Culture
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Train a Word-Alignment Model for Low-Resource Catalan-Aranese
You receive a 35,000-sentence Catalan-Aranese parallel corpus plus a 1,200-pair manually annotated word-alignment test set. Train (1) a classic statistical alignment baseline (e…
- Alignment
- Neural Mt
- Low Resource Mt
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Community Detection on a Pharma Clinical-Trial Investigator Graph
You receive a pre-fetched dump of around 15,000 trials from a public registry covering oncology over the last 10 years and a mapping of trials to investigator names + institutio…
- Community Detection
- Louvain
- Leiden
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Marketing Analyst
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.
- CodeBeginnerNew
Choose a Hash Table or Trie for a URL-Shortener Cache
Build two caches that satisfy the contract in the cache specification (provided): one hash table using linear probing and one compressed trie, both enforcing the same two-millio…
- Hash Tables
- Trie Data Structure
- Benchmarking
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Apply SOLID to a Java Reporting Service for a Renewable Energy Startup
Receive the legacy ReportService, 4 sample report templates (Daily Output, Monthly P&L, Annual Availability, Curtailment), and 22 fixtures (input dataset, expected report). Refa…
- Java
- Solid Principles
- Refactoring
Object-Oriented Programming and Design - CodeBeginnerNew
Build and Ship a Bug-Tracker MVP with Full CI/CD
Week 1: write a 1-page SRS + Figma wireframes for 5 screens (login, bug list, bug detail, file bug, dashboard). Week 2-3: implement with Next.js + Supabase + Tailwind, with unit…
- Full Stack Development
- Requirements Engineering
- Ci Cd
Software Engineering Foundations - DesignBeginnerNew
Build a Multi-Criteria Vendor Selection Tool for an AI Consulting Firm
You will design a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA, a structured way to score options against weighted criteria) tool that accepts 6-10 vendor options, 6-12 weighted crite…
- Mcda
- Decision Support Systems
- Streamlit
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Compare MDP Solvers for a Smart-Grid Battery Dispatch Pilot
Model home-battery dispatch as a finite MDP: state is (state-of-charge, hour-of-day, current price tier), actions are charge/hold/discharge with realistic efficiency losses, tra…
- Markov Decision Processes
- Value Iteration
- Policy Iteration
Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques - DesignBeginnerNew
A/B-Test a Recommender Improvement Without Breaking Trust
You receive offline-evaluation results for both the production and candidate models plus aggregate metrics from the last 12 weeks (recipe views, save rate, weekly active users, …
- Experiment Design
- Ab Testing
- Metric Design
Machine Learning in Practice - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Interpretable-by-Design GAM for an Insurer's Claims Triage
You receive an anonymized claims dataset (around 60,000 claims, target: log reserve), a feature schema (22 features), and an existing LightGBM baseline (held-out R^2 of 0.78). T…
- Generalized Additive Models
- Ebm
- Interpretability
Explainable and Interpretable AI - DesignBeginnerNew
Establish IT Governance for a Hyper-Growth Consultancy
Analyze 18 months of SaaS expense data and the failed client-audit report to identify the top 5 governance gaps. Design a framework covering: SaaS procurement (who approves what…
- It Governance
- Saas Management
- Access Management
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Scaling a Sydney D2C Cosmetics Startup's Data Pipeline
You are tasked with designing a cloud-based data pipeline for GlowUp. The pipeline must ingest real-time user events (page views, purchases, returns) from web and mobile apps, p…
- Cloud Computing
- Apache Spark
- Nosql
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Modernize a Retail SAP Customization Strategy with Sidecar Apps
Work only from the materials provided: the de-identified customization register, the historical upgrade-impact log, and the pricing-approval workflow specification, supported by…
- SAP Btp
- Cap Framework
- Enterprise Architecture
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
REST API + Admin Dashboard for a Tutoring Marketplace
Map the 5 operator workflows by shadowing 2 operators for 4 hours (recordings provided). Design REST endpoints (Open API spec) covering each workflow with role-based scopes (ope…
- REST API
- Vuejs
- Rbac
Web Application Development - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Reducing Defect Rate in Stockholm D2C Cosmetics Production
Your task is to collect and analyze production data (provided in a simulated dataset) to identify root causes of defects. Use control charts (X-bar and R) and process capability…
- Statistical Process Control
- Process Capability Analysis
- Root Cause Analysis
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 - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Functional Image-Filter Pipeline for a Photography SaaS
Design a Filter as a function from (pixel matrix → pixel matrix). Build a compose helper that takes a list of filters and returns a single composed filter (function composition)…
- Higher Order Functions
- Function Composition
- Abstraction
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Rule on TaskFlow's Enterprise Landing Page A/B Test
Working only from the test results dataset and the test-setup brief in the provided materials, determine whether the redesigned page genuinely improves the demo-booking conversi…
- Hypothesis Testing
- A B Testing
- Chi Square Test
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Sales Performance Analysis for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
You will receive a dataset containing 500+ sales opportunities with fields like deal value, stage, source, close date, and account size. Your challenge is to design a data mart …
- Data Warehousing
- Etl
- Olap
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