Python
Python is a general-purpose programming language.
60–120 focused hours · roughly 6.0–12.0 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisite.
Milestone: Build a CSV reporting command-line tool.
Engineer model training and production inference, beyond beginner experimentation.
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60–120 focused hours · roughly 6.0–12.0 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisite.
Milestone: Build a CSV reporting command-line tool.
NumPy provides efficient numerical arrays.
20–40 focused hours · roughly 2.0–4.0 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: Python
Milestone: Implement vectorized dataset summaries.
Pandas manipulates tabular data in Python.
25–50 focused hours · roughly 2.5–5.0 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: Python
Milestone: Clean a messy sales dataset with an audit report.
Git records changes to source code.
8–16 focused hours · roughly 0.8–1.6 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisite.
Milestone: Track a small project and resolve a practice merge conflict.
Statistics helps reason about data and uncertainty.
60–120 focused hours · roughly 6.0–12.0 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisite.
Milestone: Compare two groups and explain uncertainty and confounders.
ML learns patterns from examples rather than fixed rules.
100–200 focused hours · roughly 10.0–20.0 weeks at your schedule · Intermediate
Prerequisites: Python · NumPy · Statistics
Milestone: Compare a baseline and classifier on held-out data.
Scikit-learn provides standard ML algorithms and evaluation tools.
30–60 focused hours · roughly 3.0–6.0 weeks at your schedule · Intermediate
Prerequisites: Machine Learning · Pandas
Milestone: Build a cross-validated tabular classification pipeline.
Model evaluation checks performance and failure modes.
30–60 focused hours · roughly 3.0–6.0 weeks at your schedule · Intermediate
Prerequisites: Machine Learning
Milestone: Write an error-analysis report with limitations.
Deep learning uses layered neural networks.
120–240 focused hours · roughly 12.0–24.0 weeks at your schedule · Advanced
Prerequisites: Machine Learning · NumPy
Milestone: Compare a small neural model with a simpler baseline.
PyTorch builds and trains neural networks.
70–140 focused hours · roughly 7.0–14.0 weeks at your schedule · Intermediate
Prerequisites: Machine Learning · NumPy
Milestone: Train a small image classifier with an error report.
An API exposes data and operations through defined requests.
20–45 focused hours · roughly 2.0–4.5 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisite.
Milestone: Design an inventory CRUD API with failure cases.
Docker packages applications into containers.
25–50 focused hours · roughly 2.5–5.0 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: Linux
Milestone: Containerize a small API with a persistent database.
Model serving exposes trained models for prediction.
40–80 focused hours · roughly 4.0–8.0 weeks at your schedule · Intermediate
Prerequisites: Machine Learning · REST API · Docker
Milestone: Serve a model with input validation and latency tests.
Testing verifies expected software behavior.
25–50 focused hours · roughly 2.5–5.0 weeks at your schedule · Beginner
Prerequisites: No specific prerequisite.
Milestone: Design API cases including invalid requests and ownership; learn Python before the unittest coding exercises.
NLP applies computation to language data.
60–120 focused hours · roughly 6.0–12.0 weeks at your schedule · Intermediate
Prerequisites: Machine Learning
Milestone: Build a text classifier and inspect ambiguous examples.
Computer vision extracts useful signals from images.
70–140 focused hours · roughly 7.0–14.0 weeks at your schedule · Advanced
Prerequisites: Deep Learning
Milestone: Build an image classification demo with clear failure cases.
Monitoring tracks system behavior and failures.
30–60 focused hours · roughly 3.0–6.0 weeks at your schedule · Intermediate
Prerequisites: Linux · Networking
Milestone: Instrument a local API and write an actionable alert.
Measure leakage-free validation and inference behavior.
Skills practiced: Scikit-learn · Model Evaluation
Compare a neural model against a baseline and inspect failures.
Skills practiced: PyTorch · Deep Learning
Validate inputs, benchmark latency and monitor model/service failures.
Skills practiced: Model Serving · Docker · Monitoring
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