A paced route, not a weekend sprint.
Your programme map
Know the rules.
Own the outcome.
Every threshold, point and assessment condition is visible before you begin. No mystery marks and no moving goalposts.
See how scoring worksSplit evenly across building and practice.
One transparent finish line.
A sustainable working rhythm.
The 1000 points
- Projects — 500 points
- 5 briefs, 100 points each. A brief counts once, at its best passing attempt: three attempts at the same brief is one project built, not three. You get three attempts per brief. A failed attempt contributes nothing — not a partial score.
- No project scores above 70
- A first attempt can earn at most 55, a second 65, a third 70. Five perfect projects therefore come to 350, not 500 — so the daily activities are not optional if you intend to reach 700. A resubmission that is not better work than your last one keeps the mark it already had.
- Activities — 500 points
- 50 levels, 10 points each, opening steadily across the 60 days. Each level holds five activities worth 2 points each. They are listed below.
- Qualifying — 700 of 1000
- The achievement certificate is issued at 700 points from any mix of the two. There is no separate project requirement: 700 points is 700 points, whether you got there through briefs, through levels, or both.
The five activities in every level
Each is worth 2 points. Five of them make the level’s 10.
01 · Proctored
Quiz
Ten questions drawn from the class recordings, one at a time, on a timer. Answer 7 correctly for the 2 points. See the threshold rule below — it is the one that surprises people.
02 · Proctored
Diff the two
Two versions of the same piece of work side by side — two prompts for one task, two ways of building the same automation. Three questions about how they differ and why it matters. Answer 2 of 3 for the points. Spotting the change is the easy half; the questions ask what it causes.
03 · Untimed
Tool scout
Two tools neither class covered. Pick one, use it for at least fifteen minutes on something real, and write up what you found. Marked on whether you actually used it: a specific thing you tried and a specific result, which cannot be obtained by reading the homepage. Copying from the website scores nothing.
04 · Proctored
Hallucination hunt
Six confident statements answering one question. Exactly one is false. Find it, then say what is actually true. This is the habit that separates people who can use AI at work from people who get caught out by it.
05 · Once a day
Daily claim
One question a day, 50 in total, drawn from a level you have already finished — from the paper you did not sit, so it is material you know but a question you have not seen. 1 point for answering, 1 more if it is right. There is no point for simply logging in. Your answer is queued and checked on the hour; the second point is added to your account when it passes. The programme runs 60 days for 50 claims, so you can miss up to 10 days without losing a point.
Quizzes: seven of ten, or nothing
7 correctPass line
A level quiz asks ten questions. Answer at least seven correctly and you earn the level’s points in full. Answer six and you earn nothing.
This is deliberate, and it is worth understanding rather than resenting. Partial credit would let someone half-know fifty topics and still collect a certificate. The threshold is what makes a completed level mean “understood this” instead of “was in the room”.
- One attempt at each question. Answers cannot be changed once submitted.
- Nothing pays until every question in the activity is answered and marked. If your score shows a level as worth zero while marking is still running, it has not been failed — it is waiting.
- Questions are drawn from the class recordings and tagged with the day they came from, so you always know what to revisit. The same applies to the diff exercises and the daily claim.
- There are two question papers, A and B. Which one you sit is fixed when you register and cannot be changed.
Submitting a project
- Pick a brief. The full feature list and the marking criteria are on the brief before you start — read them.
- Build it in any language, with any stack, using any tool. What it does is marked; what it was written in is not.
- Hand in a public repository link, and a deployed link where the brief asks for one.
- Assessment reads the code, runs the tests, and checks the features against the brief. You get marks per criterion with the reasoning shown — not a bare number.
- Some submissions are followed by a short set of questions about your own code. Answer them in your own words.
The single largest cause of a low mark is not weak code. It is a submission that does not do what the brief asked. Re-read the brief before you hand in.
Assessment conditions
Focus changes and blocked actions create context.
A flag is evidence to inspect, not a verdict.
Your mark never changes from a flag alone.
- Your joining code registers one account. It cannot be used a second time.
- Proctored activities are timed, and the timing is kept by the server rather than your browser — closing the tab does not pause it, and re-entering resumes the same clock.
- During a proctored activity, copy, paste, right-click and text selection are disabled, and leaving the tab is recorded. None of it is marked against you automatically; it is there for a human to look at if a pattern appears.
- One claim per day. A second claim on the same day is refused by the server.
- Submitting work that is not yours, or answering for another student, voids the marks for that item. A certificate already issued can be revoked, and a revoked certificate stays publicly checkable as revoked.
- Using AI tools to help you build a project is expected and fine. Handing in something you cannot explain is not — that is what the follow-up questions are for.
Pace
Day 150 levels open steadilyDay 60
The programme runs 60 days and is built around about 60 minutes a day. Levels open on a schedule, so there is no way to finish it in a weekend — and equally, missing a few days does not lock you out. Anything already open stays open.
Something here disagreeing with what you were marked? Say so — an assessment you cannot question is not worth much. Open your score ledger to see exactly where each point came from.