Udacity

During this last year I enrolled myself in the Deep Learning Nanodegree program. This program is an introductory course to AI related topics, and I must recognize that it was very well developed: background topics and progressive concepts are very well explained. Indeed it was a very good introduction to AI world. Additional links or bibliography is always present in order to get a deeper knowledge about the different topics. After this course, different other courses are available to become an expert in the matter.

My initial idea was precisely to complement this introductory course with other ones. Problem is that in the middle, prices of courser were considerably risen. From $500 dollars to $800 (approx). This makes me think that although the courser it was good, the price is not worth it. I had the feeling that this courser was unidirectional: you watch the videos, read the text, and do the exercises. But no more. Although different mentors were assigned to you, no one of them asked me if I needed something, or nobody helped me. There’s a kind of forum, but not very useful in any case. There’s no interaction with your mentor or your colleagues.

So, yes, the course it was great, but I think that new prices are very expensive to watch a few of videos. I need something more to justify the new prices (about $800-$900)

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Digital Marketing Nanodegree is probably the only Course where you can get that experience since you will work on real projects and run paid advertising campaigns that no other course includes!
And on top of it all, you will get professional feedback on your work to really give you valuable insights and knowledge about the work you have done.

For me, Number 1 recommendation for anyone who wants to get hands-on with learning and not just passively watch some videos without the chance to apply the knowledge.

I started learning with Udacity about 2 years ago. Back then I was a business analyst interested in becoming a data scientist. So I decided to take the data scientist nanodegree. It came out to be an excellent program for those who want to start a career in data science: the first term is focused on machine learning and the second one covers even more helpful and important topics. Thanks to this nanodegree I started to write articles and deploying my models with simple web apps. I started to build my own portfolio. 
Udacity also offers scholarship opportunities. Those are incredible. Participation in Secure and Private AI Scolarship with Facebook helped me to connect to brilliant scholars from all over the world and start participation in own open source project. 
Today I am working as a Data Scientist in one of the most famous IT companies in Silicon Valley. This is the best job I ever had. I want to thank Udacity for helping me to change my whole life :)

Good:

The curriculum was broad and quite complete. You get started with the first module of introducing machine learning in general. Then you will be exposed to probably most types of machine learning techniques. From supervised learning to deep learning. So quite worthwhile if you want one course to get know of broad these machine learning techniques.  Another good thing about the Udacity course was, the feedback given after submission. The feedback from markers can help you to learn and allows you to correct misunderstood concepts. 

Bad:

There are coursework or projects for each machine learning technique module. It is a positive point for this online course. However, some project did not expect you to make a fully functional end product. For example, the reinforcement learning project we have to try implementing this technique to fly a simulated drone. So it ended up many students complaint or got confused why they couldn't make it work. Then the instructor advises us that they didn't expect us to submit one that really works. Thus, I felt that some coursework or project was not well planned. or not fit for the purpose. Basically, if you look for building something amazing and works to show your employer or friends then maybe not as you expected. 

I took the Udacity NLP nanodegree when I was in the process of looking for jobs after my graduate program. As an AI major I do believe that the Nanodegree alone is not sufficient to build your skills in the field of AI. However, the Nanodegree does have a good structure of the most important concepts required to learn NLP. The Nanodegree will give you a good headstart for NLP.  Since the focus is on new learners as well, the instructurs work very hard to make the content accessible. That can have its drawbacks and the most important drawback is the lack of rigor. Despite all of the flaws, if you are looking to start your career in NLP and you want to know the most important topics that you can further learn from the internet, I would recommend this Nanodegree. If you are in the market for a job in NLP and you want to do this degree, then I wouldn't recommend it. I would recommend that you spend at least 6 months of training in the actual fundamentals before attempting this Nanodegree.