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by nishanth_v 1967 days ago
One of my friends is building a collection of such exercises aimed at experienced & intermediate programmers, where you build Redis / Docker / Git / React from scratch with guidance.

https://codecrafters.io/challenges

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See also: Robert Heaton's series of project prompts "Programming Projects for Advanced Beginners."

https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/08/programming-projects-for...

The project goals are not as lofty as those proposed by nishanth_v's friend, but Mr. Heaton goes the extra mile to turn each project idea into a step by step mini-curriculum with lots of extension points.

Then, he goes another extra mile by allowing readers to email in their buggy projects, and running a companion series where he teaches people how to debug / fix / improve their code by refactoring reader's attempts at the "...Advanced Beginners" projects.

Recommended.

I remember doing a few of these last year. It was quite fun. They even added nim on request. I was able to use it to complete the docker challenge.