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Artificial Intelligence for Beginners - A Curriculum
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Dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with our 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum! It includes hands-on lessons, quizzes, and labs. This beginner-friendly curriculum covers tools like TensorFlow and PyTorch, as well as discussions on AI ethics.
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What you will learn
In this curriculum, you will explore:
- Various approaches to Artificial Intelligence, including the "classic" symbolic approach with Knowledge Representation and reasoning (GOFAI).
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning, which are central to modern AI. We'll explain these concepts using code in two popular frameworks - TensorFlow and PyTorch.
- Neural Architectures for processing images and text. While we will cover recent models, we may not delve into the latest advancements.
- Less common AI methods, such as Genetic Algorithms and Multi-Agent Systems.
What this curriculum does not cover:
Find all additional resources for this course in our Microsoft Learn collection
- Business applications of AI in Business. For this, consider the Introduction to AI for business users learning path on Microsoft Learn, or AI Business School, developed in collaboration with INSEAD.
- Classic Machine Learning, which is thoroughly covered in our Machine Learning for Beginners Curriculum.
- Practical AI applications using Cognitive Services. For this, we recommend starting with Microsoft Learn modules for vision, natural language processing, Generative AI with Azure OpenAI Service, and others.
- Specific ML Cloud Frameworks, such as Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft Fabric, or Azure Databricks. Consider using Build and operate machine learning solutions with Azure Machine Learning and Build and Operate Machine Learning Solutions with Azure Databricks learning paths.
- Conversational AI and Chat Bots. There is a separate Create conversational AI solutions learning path, and you can also refer to this blog post for more details.
- Advanced Mathematics behind deep learning. For this, we recommend Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville, which is also available online at https://www.deeplearningbook.org/.
For a beginner-friendly introduction to AI in the Cloud, consider taking the Get started with artificial intelligence on Azure Learning Path.
Content
Each lesson contains
- Pre-reading material
- Executable Jupyter Notebooks, which are often specific to the framework (PyTorch or TensorFlow). The executable notebook also contains a lot of theoretical material, so to understand the topic you need to go through at least one version of the notebook (either PyTorch or TensorFlow).
- Labs available for some topics, which give you an opportunity to try applying the material you have learned to a specific problem.
- Some sections contain links to MS Learn modules that cover related topics.
Getting Started
🎯 New to AI? Start Here!
If you're completely new to AI and want quick, hands-on examples, check out our Beginner-Friendly Examples! These include:
- 🌟 Hello AI World - Your first AI program (pattern recognition)
- 🧠 Simple Neural Network - Build a neural network from scratch
- 🖼️ Image Classifier - Classify images with detailed comments
- 💬 Text Sentiment - Analyze whether text is positive or negative
These examples are designed to help you grasp AI concepts before diving into the full curriculum.
📚 Full Curriculum Setup
- We’ve created a setup lesson to guide you in setting up your development environment. - For educators, we’ve also prepared a curricula setup lesson!
- Learn how to Run the code in VSCode or a Codespace
Follow these steps:
Fork the Repository: Click the "Fork" button at the top-right corner of this page.
Clone the Repository: git clone https://github.com/microsoft/AI-For-Beginners.git
Don’t forget to star (🌟) this repo so you can easily find it later.
Meet other Learners
Join our official AI Discord server to connect and network with other learners taking this course and to get support.
If you have product feedback or questions while building, visit our Azure AI Foundry Developer Forum
Quizzes
A note about quizzes: All quizzes are located in the Quiz-app folder under etc\quiz-app, or Online Here. They are linked within the lessons. The quiz app can be run locally or deployed to Azure; follow the instructions in the
quiz-appfolder. Localization is ongoing.
Help Wanted
Have suggestions or found spelling or code errors? Feel free to raise an issue or create a pull request.
Special Thanks
- ✍️ Primary Author: Dmitry Soshnikov, PhD
- 🔥 Editor: Jen Looper, PhD
- 🎨 Sketchnote illustrator: Tomomi Imura
- ✅ Quiz Creator: Lateefah Bello, MLSA
- 🙏 Core Contributors: Evgenii Pishchik
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Getting Help
If you’re stuck or have questions about building AI apps, join fellow learners and experienced developers in discussions about MCP. It’s a supportive community where questions are welcome, and knowledge is freely shared.
If you have product feedback or encounter errors while building, visit:
Disclaimer:
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