A very good introduction to Deep Learning. The coding examples are explained well and help a newcomer build functioning neural nets. The math could be difficult for those unfamiliar with matrix multiplication, but the other math (especially the calculus) is handled well and smoothed over by Andrew so the student can get to what is actually the meat of the course.

Having completed the Andrew Ng Machine Learning course, this Neural Networks and Deep Learning course provided the next level of detail and a great introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Learning. The exercises in Python was more aligned to real-world examples however the familar style of Andrews teaching shields you from a need to deeply understand the maths.

This course is perfect to start learning deep learning . It start with very basic so that anyone can understand and slowly it keeps building bigger concept for multi layer network . So it becomes very easy for anyone to learn deep learning easily . Also the programming assignment has taken care of most of coding details and it helps in focusing on core concepts .

This is a wonderful course with all the details you need to know.

Instructor Wu EnDa is a decent teacher with a smooth voice which will lead you to the world of neural network.

I came with some knowledge of Numpy, Pandas and Scikit_learn, and find this course fits me very good.

Highly recommend anyone who want's to be a NN user to take this course at the beginning.

I am thrilled that such high quality education is available so pervasively. Andrew Ng is a brilliant teacher whose videos helped me write my masters thesis a few years ago. I would not mind seeing some side courses in linear algebra or calculus linked to this even though I took them several years ago. However, I think one can get through the courses without that.

Good introduction to the topic. I enjoyed the well-structured assignments because they focus on the area that Prof Ng wants the student to learn about. Especially nice that the (extremely challenging) computer programming framework aspects are set out for you so that you can focus on the key steps of the algorithms to understand what deep learning is all about.

this is an awesome course. I have learned so many basic knowledge in deep learning and neural network.Doctor Andrew Ng' speech is clear and he discussed so many details that will help deep learning starters(just like me) understand easily.This is just first course in this Deep Learning series,I will continue studying this Specializations!Thanks Doctor Andrew Ng!

This course is very well designed for beginners. I learned a lot about the working of neural networks. I also learned about hyperparameters. The programming exercises provied in the course is very informative and interactive. If you prepare your own handwritten notes you will be able to retain the infromation better and have a glance in the future when required.

Awesome course....Everything is clear-cut....Andrew is a fantastic instructor...He taught everything in an order....with not getting any doubts...in my view.....I suggest everyone to take this course and also the specialization whoever want to go to the AI field...as the instructor is same....I trust that he even teaches every other course in the same manner....

I like the videos and explanations very much. Andrew Ng is enthusiastic and clearly loves what he does! I am not so much a fan of the programming assignments because it is mostly copy and paste. However, in reality no one who is taking this course will program those functions from scratch and the assignments do a great job for understanding how NN actually work.

Amazing course and very well taught by Andrew. He makes deep learning very easy to understand. It actually seems difficult when you see those complex mathematical equations at start but soon you would realise that they are not actually that much scary at all. I would really encourage everyone to take this first step. You would feel great that you made this call.

Very good course, introduce the basic aspects of deep learning, through this course, it lead me go into the new AI area. I already have several plans to put this in a real project for next step study.

And deep learning is so amazing, with this very simple method, I didn't expect it learned from 209 example to know cat/non-cat, should be the future method .......

El mejor curso de Deep Learning que he encontrado, y he visto muchos. Deberá ser por mi perfil técnico que disfruté cada clase y video. ¡Gracias Coursera por este magnífico curso!

The best Deep Learning course I have found, and I have seen many. It must be because of my technical profile that I enjoyed each class and video. Thanks Coursera for this great course!

I'v never thought that I will learn and enjoy at the same time, Mr Andrew was amazing, the labs are perfect and guides you step by step to understand the whole concept, to let you know exactly what you are coding. Also the mentors were helpfull and reply for our questions.

I highly recommend this course, and I will move to the next ones in this specialization.

Excellent introduction to Deep Learning. New learners, I would recommend you to do the ML course by Andrew Ng (as recommended by the Course Info anyway) as a pre-requisite because you might find this course a bit fast paced to grasp the concept of machine learning. But I think you'll be able to understand the concepts without the ML course--it just helps a bit.

This course really help me in understanding the basic principles of Neural Networks and how does data is processed in makeing more accurate predictions using Neural Networks. I am truly greatfull to coursera Team for providing me with this great oppertunity of learning "Deep Learning" and special Thanks to Mr. Andrew Ng for Teaching this Subject in great way.

I took the basic Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng and loved it. This is another quality course by Andrew Ng, with really great and clear videos explaining the basic concepts. The programming assignments seem to have been revamped, and it looks more structured and easy-to-follow. Kudos .to the team and i'm looking forward to moving on to the second course!

Great course! If you have basic Python and linear algebra background, this course will give you a detailed introduction to neural networks and deep learning. While I already knew Andrew Ng gives great lectures, what surprised me about this course is how beginner-friendly it is, and how nice the programming assignments are structured. Would recommend it anyone!

I really love the course and am extremely thankful to the team for making such a great course on neural networks and deep learning. Before taking this course, I am always curious about the deep learning buzzword and only had a little idea about it. After taking this course, I could grasp the fundamental concepts that I believe will help me in my future career.

Andrew did a great job explaining the concept. The labs were easy to follow. Although I never programmed in python, the instructions were very easy to follow and I was able to complete the labs without problem. Highly recommend for someone who is interested in learning fundamentals about deep learning. I wish there is more access to instructors for questions.

Excellent course, the first part of the 5-course specialization that I'm taking now. Great videos, excellent programming assignments. I love Andrew Ng's teaching style, I took his very first class back then (I think it was late 2011) about machine learning, before Coursera even existed. His teaching is a main reason why I joined this particular specialization.

Andrew Ng teaches in a way which makes applying deep learning to new problems seem like a child's play. He teaches in a botom up approach which might sometimes seem boring but the intuition and mathematics explained is necessary for going deeper into the subject with ease. This is the best course I have come across so far and I am going for the specialization.

All the lectures / videos are very well explained, makes it easy to understand and follow the material. The assignments are quite straight forward and focus on your understanding of the overall process and general logical approach. Most of math functions and python functions break-down is provided for you already. Thank you very much for putting this together.

A very satisfying course. Prior to taking this course, I had 0 knowledge about AI, Deep learning, Neural networks as I belong to a different domain but I was interested in finding out. This course helped me not only understand fundamentals but also to internalize them via fantastic programming assignments. I am looking forward to completing the specialization.

Very effective to learn how to implement a deep neural network. Andrew has a very clear, with minimal math content, easy to grab way of teaching such an elusive argument. Exercises take you by hand to carry out the result in a very pleasant path so that you hardly forget what you learnt. Strongly recommended if you are seriously interested in machine learning.