Tutorials for Inkscape can be found here. The point of the tutorials is not that you go over them from one end to the other, but to use for hints when stuck.
To familiarize yourself with the program, draw different shapes. Make a drawing of a house with a sun and a tree. (think about a child's drawing and go for that look) This should force you to do a square (house) a triangle (roof) a circle (sun) straight lines (tree trunk) and bezier curves (tree foliage). Use appropriate colours for filling out the different shapes.
In this part we are going to look at how to write SVG. In order to do so you will need a basic understanding of HTML and XML.
I would like you all to go through the svg tutorial found here, in case you feel you need more information on HTML or XML a tutorial for HTML can be found here, and a tutorial for XML here
Use a text editor (i recommend Atom, but you are free to choose whatever you like) to make the same drawing as in exercise 1 (the tree is optional in this assignment though)
This next exercise is exactly as difficult to solve as you choose it to be. The level of detail you want to achieve, combined with how realistic you expect the result to be, will impact how hard the exercise is to solve, and thereby also how much time you will need to finish it.
The exercise is also meant to require a lot more creativity and thought on colour combination than the first two.
Create a flower. (If you're having a hard time getting started, use a picture of a flower as inspiration)