Take-Home Challenge
At its core, the Take Home Challenge is a professional development project. Technically speaking, this probaby won’t present many new things you haven’t seen before. This is an opportunity to practice planning, documentation, decision making, and then speaking about those topics to an interviewer.
The take-home is meant to simulate a task that you might receive during an interview process. The scope is smaller scale and open ended. The goal is to complete the task in 8 hours or less. Since there is a time limit and due to the tasks open ended nature, you should manage your time and plan appropriately. Not only is completing the take-home necessary, but also explaining your process and reasoning behind your decisions are equally important. Use this challenge to practice speaking about your planning and decision making processes around the code you write. Completion and passing the Take Home Presentation is a graduation requirement.
Find the appropriate directions and rubric below:
As you are working, if you have questions, please reach out to your instructors as if they are a potential employer. This is a great opportunity for you to practice your written communication too.
