The 30-Day Design Challenge

Learn to solve a variety of software design problems

If you have a computer science or ICT education, you know it’s difficult to transition to work on actual production code.
I realized this when I stopped teaching at university and started a software company. Traditional Computer Science education doesn’t prepare you all that well for the job market.

You may know the theoretical concepts. But it’s much harder to get the practice that helps you become a great software developer. I learned it the hard way: by trial and error. On top of that, many people in IT or data science didn’t follow a traditional computer science education at all. For example, you might come from a different field and have switched to IT because there are more job opportunities. Whereas one of your colleagues might have started in a coding school.

Whether you’re a junior developer looking to get better at writing complex software or a data scientist looking to organize your code better, you likely struggle to find qualitative practice material online and aimed at the intermediate-to-advanced development level.

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It can be really frustrating to grow your skills on your own.
There’s a lot of beginner-level material or very specific “how-to” tutorials out there that don’t explain the “why”, and not many intermediate-advanced level courses out there.

Out of the few that exist, even fewer have corresponding exercises, since they require more work upfront for teachers and they contain mostly open-ended challenges, which do not provide the learner with detailed feedback.

There are training programs that go deeper, but then you’re confronted with a new problem: these trainings are painfully expensive (think $1000 or more ?). They also take up a lot of your time, which you need to fit somehow into your busy work and life schedule.

Of course, you could choose to simply stick to learning from the tasks you currently have… But you’ll grow much slower that way. And you’re letting your job decide what you’re going to learn and at what pace.

As a result, you simply stop evolving
You remain stuck in “tutorial hell”
You’re unable to distinguish good from bad quality practice material, trying to navigate conflicting practices
You’re lost, aimlessly playing around with code and not feeling like you’re making any progress
You’ll most likely end up behind your colleagues who actively invest in their learning.
And finally, AI tools will most likely take over basic coding jobs in the near future. It’s crucial to stay ahead of this trend and train your high-level skills.

So how do you effectively develop your higher-level thinking and transition to more senior skills?
It’s simple and complex at the same time: you need to practice software design and coding at an intermediate-to-advanced level and follow proper software design guidelines. This way, you’ll

Feel increasingly comfortable working on complex codebases
Be naturally more confident in your software design decisions
Be able to objectively consider several aspects of a problem, for a more robust outcome.

This challenge pushes you out of your comfort zone. It makes you more confident and skilled in problem-solving and troubleshooting code.

You’ll be presented with 30 exciting software design problems that will test your creativity and problem-solving abilities ?. The challenges range from one-off examples that explore a particular design principle to a group of challenges that really go deep into software design. For example, you’ll write a complete API with FastAPI and SQLAlchemy, you’ll work with GUI code, you’ll explore the intricacies of functional programming and object-oriented programming, in-depth type annotations in Python, and many other things.

Thanks to my background in education and the fact that I launched and run several technical SaaS startups, I’m in the unique position to offer a course that will make a difference for you.

I’ve spent many hours ensuring each problem is the perfect mix of high educational value while remaining close to real-life production code.

Here’s what you’ll get with the 30-Day Design Challenge

20 or 30 intermediate-to-advanced level challenges (depending on the format you choose)
A solution video and explanation of each challenge
Code downloads so you have a starting point for each challenge
Custom feedback on 3 challenges of your choice (Premium version only)
Lifetime access to the material and any future updates
Certificate of Completion, so you can brag about being a Software Design Badass (™️) ?.

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