excelent course

wondrous course

great lecture

Great course

Great Course

It was good.

Ótimo Curso

Good course

Fun course!

learn much

Fantastic!

Very good.

Very good

Thank you

Very good

Amazing!

Perfect

Great!

Great

Great

The course material are great. You will learn a lot from the assignments and from the book. The videos are a good refresher of what you'll read in the book, sometimes with improved animated visuals. However, I've a few nitpicks that prevent me from giving it 5 stars. (1) The instructors do not interact much with the students in the forum (if at all). (2) There's an inaccuracy in one of the videos that (as of the instant I'm doing this review) hasn't been fixed yet. (3) The quizzes sometime ask for questions that are NOT in the assigned homework materials (I'm thinking now about a question about prioritized sweeping in the planning section, but there are others). This is not a big deal, the questions will ring a bell immediately and you will find the section of the book where the answer lies (or you will answer out of common sense). (4) There's a video about applying RL in continuous tasks in robotics (purely motivational, not part of the syllabus) that is missing the second part. I'm guessing it's in the next course?

I have to admit that the practical programming tasks are excellent. The discussions sections are well maintained by professors. The recommended readings are good. The exams are fine but some questions can be a bit confusing or not clear enough.

I consider the lectures to be the weakest part of this course. In lectures, they only provide a short summary of what is already written in the book, which may be useful for some people, but I prefer the old way of long lectures in a blackboard full of mathematical proofs and historical notes providing true understanding of the topic. The invited lecturers are pretty good, since they show some historical notes or cutting edge projects.

So far this is the best course I have found on this topic.

This is THE course to go with Sutton & Barto's Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction.

It's great to be able to repeat the examples from the book and end up writing code that outputs the same diagrams for e.g. Dyna-Q comparisons for planning. The notebooks strike a good balance between hand-holding for new topics and letting you make your own msitakes and learn from them.

I would rate five stars, but decided to drop one for now as there are still some glitches in the coding of Notebook assignments, requiring work-arounds communicated in the course forums. I hope these will be worked on and the course materials polished to perfection in future.

Excellent course, it complements very well the textbook by Sutton and Barto. The quizzes focus on conceptual issues, some of them not covered in the video lectures but presented in the textbook, which should be read carefully and in-depth. The programming assignments are based on the textbook examples and they are very effective in reinforcing what the course teaches despite not being that difficult nor time consuming. Although I have been able to navigate the course on my own I am taking one star off because there has been almost no feedback from the instructors in the discussion forums when I took the course in August 2020.

Terrific instructors and lectures, HOWEVER the programming assignements were frustrating in some ways due to poorly thoughtout random generation. The fact that you HAVE TO use the rand generator exactly the the same number of times the instructor did is problematic. Also, in the Dyna assignment, choosing a previously visited state and then an action performed in that state is not the same as choosing at random a state-action pair previously visited.

Overall a big THANK YOU to the instructors and the staff !