Week

Topics to Cover
Resources
Practical/Project Ideas
Month 1: Foundations
Week 1-2 Python for Data Science: Python
Basics, Libraries (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn)
Book: [Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney](https://www.amazon.com/Python-
Data-Analysis-Wes-McKinney/dp/1491957662)\nOnline Course: [Python for Data Science
and AI by IBM on Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/learn/python-for-applied-data-
science-ai)\nOnline Course: [Intro to Data Analysis on
Udacity](https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-data-analysis--ud170)
Basic data manipulation and visualization projects (e.g., analyze a dataset from
Kaggle and create visualizations)
Week 3-4 Mathematics for ML:
Linear Algebra, Calculus, Probability and Statistics Book: [Mathematics for Machine
Learning by Marc Peter Deisenroth](https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Machine-
Learning-Peter-Deisenroth/dp/110845514X)\nOnline Course: [Linear Algebra on Khan
Academy](https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra), [Calculus on Khan
Academy](https://www.khanacademy.org/math/calculus-1)\nOnline Course: [Mathematics
for Machine Learning on
Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/specializations/mathematics-machine-learning)
Solve mathematical problems related to ML concepts (e.g., implement matrix
operations and derivatives in Python)
Month 2: Core Machine Learning
Week 5-6 Machine Learning
Algorithms: Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning Book:
[Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow by Aurélien
Géron](https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Machine-Learning-Scikit-Learn-TensorFlow/dp/
1492032646)\nOnline Course: [Machine Learning by Andrew Ng on
Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning)\nOnline Course: [Intro
to Machine Learning with PyTorch on Udacity](https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-
to-machine-learning-with-pytorch--ud188) Implement ML
algorithms from scratch; work on Kaggle datasets (e.g., build a regression model to
predict house prices)
Week 7-8 Model Evaluation and Tuning:
Evaluation Metrics, Cross-Validation, Hyperparameter Tuning
Documentation: [Scikit-Learn
documentation](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/user_guide.html)\nOnline Course:
[Advanced Machine Learning on
Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/specializations/aml) Perform
cross-validation and hyperparameter tuning on ML models (e.g., optimize a
classification model on a public dataset)
Month 3: Deep Learning Basics
Week 9-10 Neural Networks and
Deep Learning: Neural Networks, Deep Learning Basics
Book: [Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow](https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-
Adaptive-Computation-Machine/dp/0262035618)\nOnline Course: [Deep Learning
Specialization by Andrew Ng on
Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning)\nOnline Course:
[Deep Learning Nanodegree on Udacity](https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning-
nanodegree--nd101) Build simple neural networks using TensorFlow/PyTorch
(e.g., create a neural network to classify handwritten digits - MNIST dataset)
Week 11-12 Convolutional
Neural Networks (CNNs): CNN Architecture, Applications
Online Course: [CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition from
Stanford](http://cs231n.stanford.edu/)\nDocumentation:
[TensorFlow](https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials),
[PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/tutorials/) documentation
Implement CNNs on image datasets like CIFAR-10 or MNIST (e.g., build a CNN to
classify CIFAR-10 images)
Month 4: Advanced Deep Learning
Week 13-14 Recurrent
Neural Networks (RNNs): RNN Architecture, Applications
Online Course: [Sequence Models by Andrew Ng on
Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/learn/nlp-sequence-models)\nBook: [Deep Learning
for Time Series Forecasting by Jason Brownlee](https://www.amazon.com/Deep-
Learning-Time-Series-Forecasting/dp/1789955321) Implement RNNs
for text generation or sentiment analysis (e.g., create an LSTM model for sentiment
analysis on text data)
Week 15-16
Generative Models: GANs, VAEs
Research Papers by Ian Goodfellow on GANs\nOnline Course: [Intro to Deep Learning
with PyTorch on Udacity](https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning-pytorch--
ud188) Implement GANs for image generation tasks
(e.g., generate new images using GANs on a dataset like CelebA)
Month 5: Specialized Topics and Tools
Week 17-18 Natural
Language Processing (NLP): NLP Basics, Transformers
Book: [Natural Language Processing with PyTorch by Delip
Rao](https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Language-Processing-PyTorch-Applications/dp/
1491978236)\nOnline Course: [Natural Language Processing by deeplearning.ai on
Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/specializations/natural-language-processing)\
nTutorials: [Hugging Face tutorials](https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/)
Work on text classification or translation tasks (e.g., use BERT to build a
question-answering system)
Week 19-20
Deployment and Production: Model Deployment, Cloud Services Online
Course: [Deploying Machine Learning Models by Andrew Ng on
Coursera](https://www.coursera.org/learn/deploying-machine-learning-models)\nOnline
Course: [Machine Learning DevOps Engineer on
Udacity](https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning-dev-ops-engineer-
nanodegree--nd0821)\nDocumentation: [AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/),
[GCP](https://cloud.google.com/docs),
[Azure](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/) Deploy a
model using Flask and Docker on a cloud platform (e.g., deploy an ML model on AWS
using Docker and Flask)
Month 6: Capstone Project and Job Preparation
Week 21-22
Capstone Project: Integrate Knowledge from Previous Months
Kaggle competitions\nReal-world datasets Develop a full-fledged ML/DL project from
scratch (e.g., end-to-end ML project: from data collection and preprocessing to
model deployment)
Week 23-24 Job Preparation:
Resume and Portfolio Building, Interview Preparation
Book: [Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann
McDowell](https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/
dp/0984782850)\nOnline Platforms: [LeetCode](https://leetcode.com/), [InterviewBit]
(https://www.interviewbit.com/) for coding practice
Update LinkedIn, GitHub with projects; apply for ML/DL roles and prepare for
interviews