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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 Pratap C S

Sep 20, 2019

Have gone through few online courses on this topic but left all of them midway cause i was not getting the insights and in depth math background of neural networks that i desired to acquire but this course designed and taught by a legend just overwhelmed me with more than what i expected..A great course for stepping into deep learning..Thanks

By Sudhir A

Jul 26, 2019

Amazing course by Andrew NG. Topic was made very interesting to help develop understanding on how NN/DL works . Really liked the Implementation structure that focused on designing and developing the modular structure/functions to enable building own network, rather than on programming. Looking forward to further courses in the specialization.

By Srinivasa E

May 28, 2019

This course gave me a lot of insight into how neural networks work bu going in depth into the math behind these structures. I am a type of person who doesn't like to use libraries until I can understand the code and what it does and this course allowed me to transition into using libraries like tensorflow without going against what I believe.

By mohdnayeem u

Feb 15, 2018

If ML/DL is highly sought after skill in the industry, then definitely this course should stand as highly sought when compared with every other courses available around the globe. To me, highlights are the deep knowledge that Prof. Andrew posses, and the way he presents. I believe it took lot of efforts to prepare all programming assignments.

By Lukman A

Jul 26, 2023

I took this course to gain intuition in how deep learning works and I achieved my learning objectives. Andrew's teaching style is just amazing. You have to get the concept provided you pay attention.

I have learned so much in this course and I am looking forward to achieving great things in the world of AI today.

Thank you Andrew and team.

By Muhammad R N

Sep 16, 2021

I am a person who wants to know all the details so it took me a little while because I was busy looking at derivations and reasons for why we use non-linear activations etc. That aside, the course is very to the point and the programming assignments are amazingly helpful. I can't recommend it enough! Plus you get to make a cat identifier ;)

By Gokul G

Nov 23, 2020

1.After week 2 , did not received any quiz inside the lecture video . {those are really useful.}

2.Keep an option to add notes rather than taking screenshot/recording .

3.keep an option to comment in between lecture and direct towards discussion forums , basically keep discussion forum as a open sidebar for every lecture will be great option .

By APARNA H

Jun 7, 2020

This course is a great head start for a beginner to deep learning. The concepts are explained clearly and the programming exercises gave me the confidence to learn further.

A few suggestions: Please include pdf files of the lecture slides for reference. Kindly try to ensure the matrix multiplication compatibility while writing all equations.

By Siwakon S

Mar 25, 2020

Thank you very much. Your teaching made me understand more. But sometimes I feel that it's a little too early . What I like the most about this course is the exercises. You can design the exercises very well. At first I was determined to study the only free course. But now I change my mind, I want to study all of your courses

Best regards

By Ishaan D

Jul 1, 2019

It's an amazing introduction to neural networks and one of the best courses I have seen on the subject. Most courses ignore the maths behind neural networks and just focus on the coding part of it. This course went into the right amount of detail helped me learn the fundamentals really well. I hope to build upon it with the upcoming courses.

By Атілла Б

Jan 26, 2019

While all explanations of material are very clear and nicely presented, there were a couple of things I did not like:

1)While this specialization was designed to be standalone, the first course is completely covered in Andrew's ML course.

2)Too much time spent discussing logistic regression

3)Programming assignments have too much 'hand holding'

By Cecilia P

Aug 8, 2018

I really liked this course. It gives you a good understanding of what deep learning ist. The videos are very good. The only thing I have to say is that I felt the programming assignments were a bit too "follow the recipe", didn't allow too much "self-thinking". But I did get the chance to try a lot with the code I wrote after I submitted it.

By Eric D D

Dec 3, 2017

Great course ! However, word of advice, do not underestimate the level of complexity. Make sure to listen to the lectures at a least a couple of times and dedicate at least twice the amount of recommended time. The lectures are excellent, and the homework and assignments are well organized and really does help understand the concepts better.

By Johnson N

Oct 11, 2017

Great class to practice your machine learning skills. Intermediate general programming skills and knowledge of python is required. Andrew does a very slow and careful approach so it might be seem slow to those with stronger comprehension. Thankfully though, it's an online class so fastforwarding the parts you are familiar with are an option.

By Yahya S A

Aug 14, 2022

This course is very recommended, especially for beginners who want to build a good understanding of deep learning. The materials are delivered detailly but not confusing, some concepts are delivered repeatedly but not boring, instead making me easy to understand and to remember them. Great! Love it! I continue to the next course, Course 2.

By Christopher P

Feb 22, 2021

Great Course to start with AI/Machine Learning... I had absolutley no experience in that before. What helped me was my understanding in Matrix calculation for the Math behind it.

I recommend to get the course with access to the Lab. Without that you might miss the most usefull 80% of the course (at least for me with no experience in coding).

By Prem O

Oct 10, 2020

This is an amazing course for someone who wants to understand the nuances of deep learning. The course is well structured to give you a solid foundation in machine learning. For someone like me who has learned most of ML online from different sources, this course has helped me to put everything together and develop a solid foundation in DL.

By Weiran H

Jan 17, 2020

A nice beginner-level course. As for me, a student who has learned deep learning before, the course content will seem too easy, but what fascinates me is the assignments. I really like to build a DNN myself without using TensorFlow or Pytorch. By writing the backprop yourself, you will truly understand the internals of deep learning models.

By Mustafa S

Oct 7, 2019

It was just great! Although I do have a background in Matlab/Simulink, I easily followed assignments in Python language. I killed two birds with one stone (Deep learning with Python). I really appreciate such a great learning environment. I sincerely would like to thank Andrew Ng for very clear and step by step explanations, he was awesome.

By Varun N

Mar 28, 2018

A perfect introductory course that is meant to take you from zero knowledge of Deep Learning to being able to train your own deep neural network. Gives you a better understanding of the fundamental math that happens behind screen and some cool programming assignments to work on. There is no better introductory course on the topic out there.

By Michael S

Dec 1, 2017

I really enjoyed this class! Andrew does a great job of focusing his discussion on the basics of deep learning, and he clearly communicates the key ideas in four weeks using python, numpy and Jupyter notebooks.

Note that I took his "Machine Learning" course prior to this one, and I think it should probably be a prerequisite for this course.

By Gabriel J

Aug 27, 2017

I found this course to be exactly the level of guidance I needed. This course teaches everything you need to know to get a Deep Learning job running. I found the forum has plenty of folks discussing errors just like the ones I was facing. The text of the lecture is so valuable for mining up some key people/topics/concepts for further study.

By Nishant M K

May 29, 2021

Great introduction to neural networks by Andrew Ng. He walks through the concepts carefully. He also makes sure he keeps 'hand-waving' to a minimum. Nearly all equations (except only a handful) are fully derived within the lecture videos. The "Heros of Deep Learning" series of interviews is also very insightful. A great course, all in all!

By Jinlan M

Oct 12, 2020

I learned professor's machine learning course first, but in NN chapter there are some questions for me, so I take this again. Highly recommend this course, the material and professor's interpretations are more detailed and explicit, but I think as he mentioned in machine learning, python is not the best tool to do this work.

Keep learning!

By Bastián V

Jul 17, 2020

Excelente curso, extremadamente didactico con un excelente material en todos los campos, a pesar de que entregan muchas herramientas para resolver las tareas, ya que casi hay que seguir los pasos, estos pasos estan implementados de una forma de aprender de la forma mas correcta las implementaciones que nos entrego el curso, muchas gracias.