Beginner Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the beginner level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Design an Inclusive Engineering Hiring Plan for a Boston SaaS Scale-Up
Using the twelve-month applicant funnel dataset and the current-process case file provided, audit where DataFlow's engineering pipeline loses underrepresented candidates and why…
- Diversity And Inclusion Strategy
- Recruitment Audit
- Bias Mitigation
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Characterization Tests for an Untested Pricing Engine
Drive the pricing engine with around 800 representative input vectors generated from anonymized production quotes (provided). For each vector, capture the current output as the …
- Characterization Tests
- Approval Testing
- Legacy Code
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection - CodeBeginnerNew
Optimize Wind-Turbine Layout with a Genetic Algorithm
You receive a wind-speed-and-direction time series for the lease area, the polygon boundary, a minimum inter-turbine spacing constraint, and a Jensen wake model. Implement a rea…
- Genetic Algorithms
- Metaheuristics
- Constraint Handling
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design a Hybrid Sales Strategy for GlowUp Naturals
Design a six-month sales strategy that takes GlowUp Naturals from selling only direct-to-consumer to a blended model adding retail partnerships and business-to-business corporat…
- Sales Planning
- Negotiation
- CRM
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Safe Expression Evaluator for a Math-Learning App
Working only from the materials provided, build a self-contained expression evaluator in Python (TypeScript is acceptable if you mirror the same structure) that never calls eval…
- Recursion
- Higher Order Functions
- Parsing
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Case File: Smart-Pointer Refactor of a Game-Engine Module
Work only from the four supplied items: the representative entity-component-system module slice, the before-refactor heaptrack leak readout, the de-identified incident log, and …
- Cpp Programming
- Manual Memory Management
- Pointers
Open coursework - 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 - StrategyBeginnerNew
Responsible AI Policy for a HR-Tech Scale-up
Working as a cross-functional team, produce a Responsible AI Policy that addresses: permitted/prohibited use cases, human oversight requirements, data minimization, vendor due d…
- Ai Policy
- Ai Governance
- Stakeholder Management
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Pricing Strategist
Set the price that captures value without leaving sales on the table. Demand modelling, willingness-to-pay research, and the disciplined experimentation that turns pricing into a competitive advantage.
- ResearchBeginnerNew
Research Roadmap for Meridian DSP's Bid-Matching Pipeline
Using the VP of Machine Learning's context memo (vp-brief) and the pipeline case file (pipeline-case-file) to ground every recommendation in Meridian's actual system, assemble a…
- Information Retrieval
- Learning To Rank
- Research Synthesis
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Multi-Level Feedback Queue Scheduler in xv6
Fork the xv6-riscv repository and implement MLFQ in proc.c with 3 priority queues, per-queue time slices (10ms / 20ms / 40ms), priority demotion on slice exhaustion, and a 100ms…
- Operating Systems
- Scheduling
- C Programming
Operating Systems - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Optimizing Ad Spend for a D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a data analyst at Glow & Grow. Using the provided dataset (simulated), perform an exploratory data analysis to understand trends in ad performance. Build a regression mo…
- Data Analysis
- Regression
- Data Visualization
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Wake-Word Detector for a Smart-Speaker Startup
You receive a small public Japanese-speech dataset, 30 hours of recorded wake-phrase utterances from 50 volunteers, and 200 hours of background-noise recordings. Train a lightwe…
- Keyword Spotting
- Speech Recognition
- On Device Ml
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DesignBeginnerNewDesign a Canary Deployment Strategy for Corso Nove Checkout
Using the incident postmortem (incident-postmortem), the platform architecture spec (platform-architecture-spec), the per-service reliability targets (slo-targets-brief), and th…
- Flagger
- Argo Rollouts
- Canary Deployment
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Estimate and Plan a 6-Week MVP for a Local Logistics Startup
Read the product brief and decompose it into 8-12 modules (driver app, dispatcher console, shipper portal, billing, etc.). Estimate each module using 3-point estimation (optimis…
- Estimation
- Scheduling
- Risk Management
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Observability Injection: Distributed Tracing via Sidecars
Enable Envoy tracing with the OpenTelemetry tracer in Istio MeshConfig. Configure a Tempo backend with a Grafana frontend. Verify W3C tracecontext propagation across all 26 serv…
- Distributed Tracing
- Opentelemetry
- Envoy
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Math Intelligent-Tutoring Assistant for High Schoolers
You receive: a curated set of 40 algebra problems with worked solutions, the company's pedagogy rubric ('hint, don't reveal' principle), and a baseline 'just answer' chatbot for…
- Intelligent Tutoring
- Prompt Engineering
- LLM Agents
AI in Education and Learning Analytics - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Author a Ubiquitous-Language Glossary for a Telco Billing Domain
Conduct 12 structured interviews (30 min each) with stakeholders across CRM, billing, AR, customer portal, and finance. Capture each team's terminology for the top 25 domain con…
- Ubiquitous Language
- Context Mapping
- Stakeholder Interviews
Domain-Driven Design - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Design an LFPDPPP Compliance Program for Glow Natural MX
Using the founder brief, the data-practices case file, the sample customer data inventory, the company's current privacy notice, and the official LFPDPPP statute text (all provi…
- Data Privacy
- Lfpdppp
- Compliance
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Production HTTP/2 Load Balancer Configuration
Design a multi-region topology: anycast edge -> regional Envoy clusters -> origin services. Specify HTTP/2 connection pooling (max connections per upstream, idle timeout), retry…
- Application Protocols
- Load Balancing
- Envoy
Computer Networks - AnalysisBeginnerNew
ESG Reporting for a Chicago D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to develop a 3-page ESG reporting framework for Glow Naturals, including materiality assessment, KPIs (e.g., carbon footprint, water usage, waste reduction), and a …
- ESG Reporting
- IFRS Standards
- Financial Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Risk-Based Test Strategy for a Telehealth Scheduling Release
Using the module inventory case-file, the risk-scoring template, and the team-and-runway brief, design and document a risk-based test strategy for the seven-module scheduling re…
- Risk Based Testing
- Test Strategy
- Test Planning
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Code-Smell Triage Workshop for a Hiring-Platform Backend
Run static analysis (SonarQube + a custom ruleset for domain-specific smells) on the four most-touched services. Score each smell on the 22-item Fowler catalog by occurrence cou…
- Code Smells
- Static Analysis
- Refactoring Prioritization
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Trust-Calibration UI for a Domestic Assistive Robot
You will write the interaction patterns first (in a Notion brief), build a paper or Figma prototype, run 4 study sessions in week 2, iterate, and re-test in week 3. The interact…
- Trust Calibration
- Human Robot Interaction
- Interaction Design
Human-Robot Interaction - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cost of Capital and Capital Structure for a Renewable Energy Firm
Your task is to estimate GreenGrid's current cost of equity using CAPM (risk-free rate 2%, market risk premium 6%, beta 1.2), cost of debt (4.5% pre-tax), and tax rate (22%). Th…
- Wacc
- Capm
- Capital Structure
Corporate Finance
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