Hi. I am taking the Agentic AI course, but hopelessly lost in the ungraded labs and jupyter notebooks in general. Messing around with them in the course has taken considerable time to even understand what it is, and how to run the code has totally derailed me from the course. I am deeply disappointed that deeplearning fully assumes people know how to use these notebooks. SOS! HELP! All progress completely stalled. Thanks.
Perhaps try an introductory course like “AI For Everyone” first.
@Dale_Dervin - sorry to hear that you are going through this.
It really depends on your background, experience and what is your target career path. This will determine if this is the right course for you.
In this particular course, it is meant for in-depth technical learning with programming, specifically including Python and Jupyter notebooks.
The AI career landscape is vast and this course focuses on building agentic AI applications for programmer-type AI engineering roles.
If you think this is still the right course for you, you can use AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to assist you in coding, or understanding what the code is doing, or help with Jupyter notebooks.
Let AI help you with AI. 
If you are in either leadership or just starting to explore AI, then @TMosh’s suggestion would be a good starting point.
Jupyter Notebooks are not unique to DeepLearning.AI: they are frequently used on other platforms as well, including Google Colab and Kaggle. If they are new to you, it would be worth spending half an hour watching some tutorials. Search YouTube for “intro to Jupyter Notebooks” and you’ll find plenty. It looks like you are taking the course on Coursera, so you can also sign up for the Deep Learning Specialization in “audit” mode and then watch Professor Ng’s lecture in DLS Course 1 Week 2 titled “Quick tour of the Jupyter iPython Notebooks”. That lecture might also be on YouTube (lots of DLS content is), but I didn’t see it in the first page of the search results when I tried that.
I have not taken that Agentic AI course yet, so I don’t know how deep the programming gets there. In general if the courses here involve programming, they assume as a prerequisite that you are a knowledgable python programmer already and they do not teach you python. If you are new to python but are an experienced programmer in other languages like Java, JavaScript, C# or C++ or the like, then you can get started in python by spending a couple of hours looking at the free tutorials that are on the web. python.org is a great source for that. It’s a pretty standard procedural language, but it does have a few quirks that can trip you up. The top one that comes to mind is that indentation is actually part of the syntax. 
If you are literally new to programming, then the recommended path would be to invest the time in taking an actual “Intro to Python” course.
Everyone- I didn’t mean to rant I was just trying to communicate there wasn’t any mention of needing python and Jupyter Notebooks in the course description, or at least I didn’t see any. It took a day, but I got through it. Thanks.
Nice work!