Recently, I completed the short course AI Python for Beginners by DeepLearning.AI, taught by Andrew Ng. I am not a programmer, so I was thrilled when immediately after completing the first course in the sequence — which took about an hour — I managed to create my first program in Python.

Introduce yourself: What’s your background? Did you have a technical role prior to enrolling in the course? Throughout my life I’ve juggled my love of both science and music. I was a physics major in…

Introduce yourself: What’s your background? I am a Senior AI Strategist in the applied AI initiative at Unternehmertum, a German start-up incubator and innovation consultancy. I also work freelance as an AI programmer. These jobs…

Introduce yourself: What’s your background? Did you have a technical role prior to enrolling in the course? My background is split between a traditional business education and a computer science education. I studied Business Administration…

Introduce yourself: What’s your background? Did you have a technical role prior to enrolling in the course? I do not have a technical background. I spent about eight years as an Army Officer, leading small…

Introduce yourself: What’s your background? Did you have a technical role prior to enrolling in the course? I am an IT engineer from Nirma University, India working currently as a data scientist in a US-based…