= Exams and homework are useless, only projects matter
See: <exam>{full}.
The only thing that matters is that students aim towards the goals described at <explain how to make money with the lesson>.
Any "homework for which the student cannot use existing resources available online" is a waste of time.
The ideal way to go about it is to reach some intermediate milestone, and then document it. You don't have to do the hole thing! Just go until your patience with it runs out. But while you are doing it, go as deep and wide as you possibly can, without mercy.
This is actually how <Ciro Santilli> learns new subjects he is curious about, even as an adult! Some examples:
* <Oxford nanopore river bacteria>{full}
* <Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain>{full}
* <E. Coli Whole Cell Model by Covert Lab>{full}