After the completion of most training courses, the students are not yet ready to make a meaningful contribution to the community.
Yet your goal of getting them involved in the community is worthwhile. I would think learning to use the community as a resource to solve a problem that is not based on the standard modules would be a good one. I liked the recipe suggestion as well, but I think you would need to post a list of items to choose and remove the item when the recipe has been posted. Otherwise you could get a gazillion examples of sorting a dictionary... Just my 2 cents FWIW Fred Sells
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