Could not find helper_fucntions library on my miniforge installation

[Mubsi]

Hi @ribusgan,

As @TMosh mentioned, our (DL.AI) courses don’t have public repositories for majority of our courses, especially not for AI Python for Beginners, so I’m keen to know from which repository you got the code from. Can you share that?

Chances are, you might have gotten it from a repository which someone else created using our course material, which is very common.

As others have instructed you, and to answer this:

@ribusgan

But my question to you is, if you are correct, then no one can run their helper_fucntions.ai outside deeplearning’s environment, right? Nobody will have the file! But many people seem to have. And why would deeplearning.ai not equip its students to run these in their local enviroment, but only from theirs?!

The only way you can download these files in an official manner is:

If you are taking the Course on Coursera:

Open the lab you want the files for, and on the top right corner, click, Lab files:

When the panel opens, you can either click on Download all files or select the file you want to download.

If you are taking the Course on our website:

1. Open the notebook.
2. After the notebook opens up, click File → Open.... Depending on your view, it could be Menu --> File --> Open...
3. After the workspace opens up, click the checkbox next to the notebook, it will then show you a Shutdown option, click that. This will turn your notebook icon from green to grey.
4. Next, click the checkbox next to the notebook again, and now you’ll see the Download option.

Similarly, steps 1, 2, 4 can be used to download any other file as well.

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Once downloaded, all of the relevant files need to be in the same place/folder/directory as the notebook file in order for the notebook to run as it is. And of course, you need to add your own OpenAI API key, as instructed, in the helper_functions.py file to be able to use those functions.

Let me know if you’d need any help.

Best,
Mubsi