Software Development + Applied Mathematics
Create a school timetable generator
Generate a clash-free timetable from teachers, subjects, rooms and periods.
- Advanced
- 1–3 months
- 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.
47 Technology projects
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
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
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
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 + Agricultural Technology
Recognise plant diseases from leaf photos
Train a model on public leaf images to tell healthy leaves from diseased ones and test it on your own photos.
- Advanced
- 1–3 months
- 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
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
Software Development · Mobile Apps
Develop an attendance app with QR codes
Teachers show a changing QR code; students scan it to mark attendance, with safeguards against proxies.
- Advanced
- 1–3 months
- 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
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
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
Robotics, IoT and Hardware + Electronics and Communication
Build a home automation system with a phone
Switch low-voltage lamps and fans from a phone and with schedules, using an ESP32.
- Advanced
- 1–3 months
- 2,500–5,000
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
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
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
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