Desired feature to help facilitate hands on practice

Disclaimer: I don't think this feature exists, and if it does pardon me for writing such a long post.

I would really love to see TeamTreehouse add some sort of practice homework beyond the challenges. After each lesson there are extra credit ideas to help the students hone in on the idea presented, but I don't know if any of you all are like me but that isn't helping me really get the concepts down.

I know we have playpen where we can mess around with the code from the lesson but it isn't really giving us the chance to work from scratch.

What I've discovered in my short time learning code is that my creativity to build things from scratch and my ability to write code from scratch are not going hand in hand. I spend more time trying to think up an idea that I should write code for than actually writing the code. I'd love to be challenged with some real situations that I might come across in working for a client or real issues that I would need to use the code I just learned about.

What I feel like would be helpful is to have assignments suggested for us based on whatever subject we're in. For example, in CSS, it'd be awesome if they had a wire frame or even adobe mock up that a "client" wants us to design their webpage off of. Then it's our job to build that page using the code we just learned. This gives us the student the problem to fix/build rather than trying to come up with a project. In javascript, it be great for some sort of assignment like, "A client wants user's to their webpage to be able to check if they've already subscribed to their newsletter by entering their email in a form. Add the code to [x files] needed to make this happen."

While I really like the projects where we can build a basic website, interactive website, etc, so much of the code is already written, or copied and pasted in by the teacher to save time. Then the challenges make us do something useful, but when I step back and try to build from scratch what I just learned I hit a wall.

With these assignments it would really help me as a student gauge how well I "get it." Then it'd be awesome if we could choose to publish completed assignments and see what other student's did on the same assignment. Similarly, if we get stuck we can ask for help from other's who did the same thing, and post our partially completed assignment to a "help" section.

It's also a great way to see other's coding style and the different ways that people approach the same problem.

These assignments wouldn't be graded or mandatory, but they'd be a tool to help us practice. While I'm loving what I'm learning, I find that when I step back I still don't have the instinct and real understanding of what I can do with the code I'm learning.

Would anyone else be interested in this feature?