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Contribute a fix to an open-source project
Find a beginner-friendly issue, fix it and get your pull request merged.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
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Coding, AI, data, security and hardware projects for school computer science, college courses and your portfolio. Most need only a computer and free software.
31 Technology projects
Cybersecurity · Web Security
Find and fix vulnerabilities in a deliberately weak web app
Run a training app on your own computer, find the classic flaws, then write the fixed code.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Recommendation Systems
Build a movie recommender
Recommend films from the public MovieLens ratings using item similarity.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning
Compare machine-learning models on one dataset
Evaluate five classifiers on the same public dataset with cross-validation and report the differences properly.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Data · Data Engineering
Build a data pipeline that runs every day
Fetch a public data feed daily, clean it, store it in a database and chart the history.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Computer Vision
Build an image search engine
Find visually similar images by comparing feature vectors from a pretrained network.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Systems and Cloud · System Design
Design the architecture of a food-delivery app
Design a system for orders, restaurants and delivery partners and justify each choice with numbers.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Data · Big Data
Analyse a large open dataset with SQL
Load a multi-million-row public dataset and answer ten business questions with efficient queries.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Systems and Cloud · Containers
Containerise an application with Docker
Package one of your own apps and its database so anyone can run it with one command.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Marketing
Cluster customers into groups
Group customers by spending behaviour with k-means and describe each group in plain words.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Programming + Systems and Cloud
Build a tiny key-value store in Rust
Write a persistent key-value database with get, set and delete and an append-only log.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Data + Marketing
Mine association rules from shopping baskets
Find which products are bought together in a public transaction dataset.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Cybersecurity · Digital Forensics
Recover deleted files from a test drive
Delete files on a spare USB drive, image it and see what can be recovered and why.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Media and Journalism
Detect fake news headlines with machine learning
Train a classifier on a public dataset and show why it learns the source's style, not the truth.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Games, Graphics and New Tech + Pure Mathematics
Render a 3D scene with a ray tracer
Write a program that draws spheres with shadows and reflections by tracing rays.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Time-Series
Detect anomalies in sensor data
Flag unusual readings in a temperature or power series using rolling statistics.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Earth Science
Forecast daily temperature with time-series methods
Forecast tomorrow's temperature from past data and beat the "same as today" baseline.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Software Development + Entrepreneurship
Build a price comparison tool for textbooks
Let students list and find second-hand textbooks on campus and compare prices.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Cybersecurity · Secure Coding
Write a secure-coding checklist from real bugs
Study ten public security fixes in open-source projects and turn them into a review checklist.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Software Development · Full Stack
Build a real-time chat application
Create a chat app with rooms, live messages, typing indicators and message history.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Computer Vision
Count vehicles in a video with computer vision
Use a pretrained detector to count vehicles crossing a line in traffic footage.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Crops, Soil and Horticulture
Predict crop yield from rainfall data
Combine public district rainfall and yield data and test how much of yield rainfall explains.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Reinforcement Learning
Train an agent to play a simple game
Implement Q-learning for a grid world and watch the agent learn the shortest path.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Systems and Cloud · Linux
Build a simple shell
Write a command-line shell that runs programs, handles pipes and redirects output.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
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