Explore machine learning's essentials for software engineers, delve into supervised learning, neural networks, and deep learning, and gain skills to tackle real-world data challenges effectively.

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Machine learning is the future for the next generation of software professionals.

This course serves as a guide to machine learning for software engineers. You’ll be introduced to three of the most relevant components of the AI/ML discipline; supervised learning, neural networks, and deep learning. You’ll grasp the differences between traditional programming and machine learning by hands-on development in supervised learning before building out complex distributed applications with neural networks. You’ll go even further by layering networks to create deep learning systems. You’ll work with complex real-world datasets to explore machine behavior from scratch at each phase.

By the end of this course, you’ll have a working knowledge of modern machine learning techniques. Using software engineering, you’ll be prepared to build complex neural networks and wrangle real-world data challenges.

Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Software Engineers

# Recap

In the previous chapter, we made a plan for building a neural network that classifies MNIST images. We started by concatenating two perceptrons, and we jotted down the number of rows and columns for all the matrices involved. It resulted in the following diagram:


Keep the sketch handy, because we are about to convert it to code. Coding will take two chapters. In this chapter, we’ll write the neural network’s classification functions—in other words, all the code in the network, except for the training code. In the next chapter, we’ll complete the network and run it on an unsuspecting MNIST dataset.


Let’s get started with the classification functions. For reference, let’s start from the functions we already wrote in the first part of the course, to implement the perceptron.

# Code forward propagation

Below is a reprint of `forward()`, a core function of our perceptron:


Discover the interesting facts regarding forward propagation along with its code.

How Machine Learning Works

Our First Learning Program

Walking the Gradient

Hyperspace

A Discern Machine

Get Real

The Final Challenge

The Perceptron

Designing the Network

Building the Network

Training the Network

How Classifiers Work

Batchin’ Up

The Zen of Testing

Let’s Do Development

A Deeper Kind of Network

Diabetes Prediction Using Keras

Defeating Overfitting

Taming Deep Networks

Beyond Vanilla Networks

Into the Deep

Recognize Handwritten Digits Using a Deep Neural Network

Code Forward Propagation

Recap