Software Development · APIs
Build a weather app using a public API
Show current weather and a five-day forecast for any city using a free weather API.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
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Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning
Classify handwritten digits with a neural network
Train a small neural network on the MNIST digits and study where it goes wrong.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Programming · Java
Build a library management system
Manage books, members, issue and return with fines, backed by a database.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Statistics and Probability
Predict house prices with linear regression
Use a public housing dataset to predict price from size, rooms and location.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Software Development · Developer Tools
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
Artificial Intelligence · NLP
Detect spam messages with a text classifier
Train a model on a public SMS dataset to separate spam from normal messages.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Data · Databases
Design a database for a hostel or library
Model a real system as tables, normalise it and answer ten questions with SQL.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Games, Graphics and New Tech · Blockchain
Build a simple blockchain
Implement blocks, hashes, proof of work and validation to see how a chain resists tampering.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Software Development · Backend
Create a URL shortener with a database
Build a service that turns long links into short codes, redirects visitors and counts clicks.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Robotics, IoT and Hardware + Mechanical Engineering
Design a mechanical part in CAD and simulate its stress
Model a bracket, apply a load in simulation and redesign it to be lighter and still strong.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Software Development · Mobile Apps
Build a habit tracker with streaks
Create an Android app to tick off daily habits and see streaks and a calendar heat map.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Robotics, IoT and Hardware + Earth Science
Build a weather station that logs data
Measure temperature, humidity and pressure every few minutes and chart them online.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- 1,000–2,500
Programming + Pure Mathematics
Write classic sorting algorithms and race them
Implement bubble, insertion, merge and quick sort and plot how their running time grows.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Data + Operations, HR and Supply Chain
Build a sales dashboard
Turn a public retail dataset into a one-page dashboard that answers a manager's questions.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Programming + Cybersecurity
Make a file encryption tool
Encrypt and decrypt files with a password using a well-tested library.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- 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
Systems and Cloud · Networking
Build a chat system on raw sockets
Write a server and client that exchange messages over TCP with several users.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Programming · Python
Build a Markdown-to-HTML converter
Write a tool that converts headings, lists, links, bold and code blocks from Markdown to HTML.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- 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
Data · Data Engineering
Clean a messy real-world dataset
Take a messy government dataset and produce a clean, documented version with a script.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- 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
Artificial Intelligence · NLP
Summarise long articles with extractive methods
Pick the most important sentences of an article using word frequency and TextRank.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Systems and Cloud + Robotics, IoT and Hardware
Set up a web server on a Raspberry Pi
Turn a Raspberry Pi into a home web server that hosts your own site on the local network.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- 2,500–5,000
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