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Your task is to convert an alert code number into a string of alarm chime sounds.

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Your team maintains an internal alert triage service. Each incoming alert carries five severity tags — tokens composed of a level indicator and a category code (e.g. 4S 5H 7C 8D JC). The ranking rules for these tag sets follow standard poker hand rankings.

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In a user identity system, an alias cluster is a group of usernames that share exactly the same letters in a different arrangement. Two usernames belong to the same cluster if one can be formed by rearranging the letters of the other.

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For an Astral Pilot simulation, each cadet begins by generating a pilot profile they can fly with.

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Starter~2h

Given a word, compute the badge points for that word. You'll need these:

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Standard~3h

Your team is building the ranking engine for an online auction platform. Each bid submitted to an auction carries five value tokens -- compact codes composed of a level indicator and a category letter (e.g. 4S 5H 7C 8D JC).

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Starter~2h

An internal billing system assigns sequential period numbers to billing cycles. Some periods are designated as extended — they receive an extra processing day for reconciliation.

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Standard~3h

An online retailer sells five distinct product SKUs. Each item costs $8 at full price. To encourage bundle purchases, the retailer offers tiered discounts when a customer buys distinct items together:

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Starter~2h

Your task is to maximize the value of a cargo load without exceeding the hold's weight limit.

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Standard~3h

Convert an encoded payload, represented as a sequence of symbol values in one radix, to any other radix.

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You are building a roster system for a developer training academy. Participants are assigned to numbered cohorts based on their experience track. The program coordinator needs to view participants grouped by cohort, with each cohort's list sorted alphabeticall…

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Standard~3h

Correctly determine the fewest number of coins needed to make an exact target amount from a supplied denomination list.

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Starter~2h

You are building a decoder for a legacy industrial robot controller. The controller receives a continuous stream of 3-character instruction codes. Each triplet maps to a named operation. When a HALT code is encountered, execution stops immediately.

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Implement a function that encodes plain English text into commit jargon. Your team uses an internal shorthand for obfuscating draft commit messages before they reach the shared log. The encoding follows a small set of deterministic rules applied word-by-word.

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Starter~2h

You are working on a small internal tool that compares two configuration snapshots.

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You are cleaning imported contact records before they are saved into a CRM. Each record includes a freeform phone field entered by a human, so the data can contain spaces, dots, parentheses, hyphens, and an optional leading country code of 1.

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Standard~3h

Output the lyrics to 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'. ``text On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me: a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

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Determine if a text sample has full alphabet coverage. A sample with full coverage uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. The best-known example is: > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

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Classify a delivery drop-off location into the correct fee tier based on its distance from the warehouse.

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Calculate the date of scheduled deployment windows. Many engineering teams run deployments on a fixed recurring weekday each month. In this exercise you will take a description of a deployment window and return the actual date it falls on.

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Your assignment is to write a depot shuttle navigator. A large distribution depot uses automated shuttles to move packages between loading bays. The depot's control system needs a program to verify shuttle movements before they are dispatched.

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Standard~3h

Refactor an expense report formatter. The expense report exercise is a refactoring exercise. There is code that prints a nicely formatted expense report, given a locale (American or Dutch) and a currency (US dollar or euro).

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Starter~2h

A maritime signal station transmits messages using a sequence of signal flags. A numeric transmission code determines which flags to raise and in what order.

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Determine which team controls each zone on a contested grid. In a grid claim competition two teams—Black (B) and White (W)—place markers on a rectangular grid. A contiguous group of empty cells that is completely enclosed (horizontally and vertically) by one t…

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Starter~2h

Identify grid crossovers in an operations matrix. A grid crossover is a cell whose value is greater than or equal to every value in its row and less than or equal to every value in its column.

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Standard~3h

In a grid hunt challenge you scan a rectangular field of characters to locate hidden target strings.

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Starter~2h

Implement a steps function that computes how many cascade steps a hailstone particle takes to reach unit mass.

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Implement the response logic for a basic help-desk chatbot. The bot handles incoming support messages and replies with one of five canned responses based on the message content.

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An internal post-mortem tool reconstructs incident chains. Each step in the chain describes an event and how it caused the next, building a cumulative narrative from the root cause forward.