I stumbled upon this really impressive list of sample ASP.NET projects by Dody Gunawinata called practical-aspnetcore. 'The goal of this project is to enable .NET programmers to learn the new ASP.NET Core stack from the ground up directly from code. There is so much power in the underlying ASP.NET Core stack. Don't miss them!'This incredibly helpful if, like me, you are asked to come up with realistic code samples this might help kick start the process. Also if you are looking to grok on of the many  ASP.NET concepts via code. You can experiment with these samples using Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code.As of this writing there are 306 samples across ASP.NET Core 2.1, 2.2, 3.0 and 3.1! ...