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“Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python” – Harvard Free Course

Using Python, the course explains “the concepts and algorithms that underlie modern artificial intelligence, delving into the ideas behind technologies such as playing games, handwriting recognition, and machine translation.”

Python and artificial intelligence are a match made in heaven. This free self-paced course will help you immerse yourself in that relationship.

CS50 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python is the latest addition to Harvard’s CS50x course lineup, which began with David Malan’s highly acclaimed CS50 online course designed to teach computer science beginners.

Using Python, the course explains “the concepts and algorithms that underlie modern artificial intelligence, delving into the ideas behind technologies such as playing games, handwriting recognition, and machine translation.”

In other words, topics such as search algorithms, classification, optimization, and reinforcement learning are studied here.

For self-study, the estimated time to complete the course is 7 weeks, if you devote 10-30 hours per week to it.

There are 6 sections in total. The approach used throughout the chapters is fairly accessible. He lays out concepts in an understandable way, avoiding throwing around technical terminology without caring about explaining it. Once you’ve mastered the basic theory well, examples and projects in Python are provided in each chapter to reinforce it further.

Training requires Python 3.10 and students must have at least one year of experience with the language. The course also lists as a prerequisite the completion of the CS50 Introduction to Computer Science course, but this may only be necessary if you are completely new to programming. If you are already a developer and have some experience with Python, then there will be no problems.

The course is offered on its own on the official Harvard website or can be taken through the edX platform, both free and paid, if you want to receive a verified certificate of successful completion.

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