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About the Course

In the first course of the Deep Learning Specialization, you will study the foundational concept of neural networks and deep learning. By the end, you will be familiar with the significant technological trends driving the rise of deep learning; build, train, and apply fully connected deep neural networks; implement efficient (vectorized) neural networks; identify key parameters in a neural network’s architecture; and apply deep learning to your own applications. The Deep Learning Specialization is our foundational program that will help you understand the capabilities, challenges, and consequences of deep learning and prepare you to participate in the development of leading-edge AI technology. It provides a pathway for you to gain the knowledge and skills to apply machine learning to your work, level up your technical career, and take the definitive step in the world of AI....

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This is a very good course for people who want to get started with neural networks. Andrew did a great job explaining the math behind the scenes. Assignments are well-designed too. Highly recommended.

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I am a student majoring in AI and ML. This course helped me to solidify my understanding of how NNs work. The course content was in-depth and comprehensive and the quiz and assignments were fun to do.

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By Erum H

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Jan 29, 2021

The course has been a great learning experience. The fact that differentiates this course is that there was a balanced focus on theoretical concepts, mathematics, programming and real-world application. It was fun to code the functions from scratch rather than simply calling some built-in Python deep learning library functions in this introductory course.

By Satyam S

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Sep 26, 2020

This course gave me a deep understanding about the functionality behind the deep learning . I love the way Andrew teaches . You may find it hard in the beginning but slowly you will be feeling comfortable . I will recommend this course to anyone who is just a beginner . Take this course before taking any other course . This will accelerate your learning .

By Ehsan u h

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Jan 24, 2019

Andrew Ng is a legend, the thing I really liked about him and this course is that whenever you are feeling down about some topic, he backs you up at the end of the video telling you not to worry even if you didn't understand it completely. I think this phrase really pushes you to do more, and once you keep going previous things start to become more clear.

By Pedro B M

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Jan 1, 2019

Very instructive course, with a lot of hands-on! Andrew explains in a very easy why, emphasizing the practical points, but always indicating the pathway for those who want to go also more deep into the math. I specially liked the interviews with the "Heroes of Deep Learning", they were very motivating. I highly recommend for those interested in the field!

By Andrew B

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Aug 4, 2018

I began after having finish Andrew Ng's Machine learning course and as a result, the first three weeks were quite easy. The programming exercises walk you through most of the problems, providing the relevant information as needed. Overall, I enjoyed the course and thought it was a good introduction to the topic, yet the assignments were on the easy side.

By Martin D

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Sep 8, 2017

Concepts and intuition are clearly explained. The Jupyter notebooks are well-structured and contain a lot of additional helpful information and explanations. Furthermore, it's absolutely great that the notebooks are provided as a service. No need to install any software. Perfect! For me, the only downside was that the programming excercises were too easy.

By Kyuil L

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Nov 17, 2021

For people that have experience with coding and decent background in math, this course might be too easy in most cases but also leave some questions unanswered in terms of deriving all of the results (you'll have to work through matrix calculus yourself). But you can speed through the lectures and assignments and get a decent foothold into deep learning.

By Arunima M

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Jun 23, 2020

If you have ever heard about this course from someone in the 'complaining' tone that 'It is of very basic level...' - for those, I want to say that - Whoever wants to understand fully the internal working procedure of a deep neural network, instead of just using the one line built-in function of a deep neural network, this is an amazing course for those.

By Andre L

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May 28, 2020

great course for transitioning from the basic ML course into Deep Learning. Refreshes your understanding and application of NN from the basic ML course. Also, the assignments on deep NN will provide you with a strong foundation for more difficult DL concepts. (material be a bit too superficial for those who already have a strong understanding of deep NN)

By Viru T

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Jul 22, 2019

Deep learning is used widely in present and Surely in the future.

This is the perfect place to study deep learning in-depth. Andrew Ng has done so much in the community of AI that learning directly from him is just a matter of luck.

So you think deep learning and Machine learning interests you.

You won't regret doing this specialization.

Love Andrew Ng sir

By Rizwan H R

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Apr 1, 2019

This course made me understand the basic concepts behind deep learning. Deep learning idea is really simple. Using multiple hidden layers (more than 2) for better accuracy makes neural networks think deeper. So this course is around deep neural networks (DNN) only which makes it easier to connect yourself with machine learning world very easily and fast.

By Владимир Р

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Feb 23, 2019

Good course for beginners, but video camera quality is too bad. Need to recapture the endings part where Andrew speaking in front of camera.

Second bad part is wrong formulas for dZ2 and dAL where (1/m) factor is missed. Instead of being included into derivative of last layer,

1/m scale factor propagated into formulas for dW and db, which is totally wrong.

By Bart W J

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Nov 26, 2017

Course gets right to the heart of the matter and uses modern electronic lab book methods via Jupyter notebooks. And the calculus involved is introduced as a refresher so one doesn't have to dust off the calculus texts to understand the math. It was also fun to see video interviews of "Heroes of AI" to get the history behind many of the techniques uses.

By 姚春楠

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Oct 30, 2017

First course I complete on coursera. This course is at good pace if you have machine learning basic knowledge, and is very suitable for you to leverage your small trunks of time. The course projects are very well-designed to give you hands-on experiences on how deep learning works. I'd recommend this course to anyone who wants to dive into deep learning.

By seyi a

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Jan 12, 2022

I have never seen such a well organized and thoughtful training. The classes were made as simple and yet concise. The quizzes were tailored to beef your grasp of the core concepts. The programming assignments? Fantastic, makes sure all the concepts taught were represented and understood and provides tools and leverage for a go in the professional world

By Marcel N

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Jun 25, 2021

Excellent! This is the fist time, I found a practical use for the math skills I learned at the University. The course finds exactly the right balance between theory and practical applications. I liked the exercises a lot. They were challenging and strengthened the understanding of the theoretical knowledge in order to transform it into practical skills.

By Amit M

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Feb 22, 2021

Very interesting course - I did it two times. Second time around things were much clearer - first time I went through it very mechanically. It may still be very challenging to do all the assignments from a scratch. i.e. how to set up this kind of process from a scratch. The template followed is a very good one. How to build up the solution step by step.

By Deva C R M

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Nov 16, 2017

Thanks to Andrew ng and deeplearning.ai. Course topics are nicely aligned with a very good and detailed explanation. Overall course gave me a good intuition around neural nets and related math.

I personally liked the idea and thankful to deeplearning.ai for giving an opportunity to Deep Learning enthusiastic to hear thoughts from heroes of Deep Learning.

By QU B

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Aug 29, 2017

A good learning with all the necessary basics of neural networks and deep learning, especially enjoyed the tips and experiences shared everywhere in the courses by Dr. Andrew Ng.

The assignments are very helpful yet the frameworks are not totally implemented by the students so it is definitely necessary to go back and review the codes every now and then.

By Aboud D

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Aug 29, 2017

This is a great course over all. Andrew never fails to simplify the complex. Note:If you're thinking of taking this course, then I advise you to familiarize yourself with classic machine learning (you can take intro ML courses on Coursera, Udemy, Udacity or EdX for free) and python programming. Having these basics set will make your experience seamless.

By Seyed J M

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Jul 13, 2021

This course was one of the best course that I attend there. The most interesting feature of the course was simplification of advanced concepts so that I could learn all of them without any complexity. Also, assignments were not only a simple assignment, but also they are a way to learn more. Many thanks Dr. Andrew Ng to provide this excellent course.

By Lucas S

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Oct 14, 2018

Great course. I did a critique for the module 2 and it also applies here. Practical part could have an option where we get to implement things from scratch. And there could be more of a intersectional approach where the extra skills we need like plotting, data preprocessing on a high level etc...could be provided as external links and resources.Cheers!

By Bertrand S

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Jan 22, 2018

Very clear exposition of the content matter with some clear examples. Also, the level of difficulty was well adapted to an introductory course: not too easy, not too hard. The creators of the course content (Andrew Ng mostly I guess) clearly made an effort to present the essential elements needed to get a good high-level understanding of deep learning.

By Pankaj S

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Dec 1, 2017

I am a big fan of Prof. Andrew Ng Sir. I was able to grasp the core concepts because of very precise and focused videos. The programming assignments are focused on concepts than programming skills and makes anyone taking this course feel comfortable and gives confidence that learning this is not very difficult task even if you are not into programming.

By RAJA K K A

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Jul 16, 2022

A great course which helps you to understand neural networks and its implementation with examples in python. Lectures and labs were explained clearly helping to understand the concepts clearly. My sincere thanks to all the people who developed this course and very greatful to the lab experts who helpmed me to clear the assignments. Thank you again.