Hello, i have some experience with javascript and web dev. Looking to learn new skills.
Found this community through a course on Coursera – Linear Algebra for Machine Learning and Data Science.
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Welcome! Everything here that involves coding uses python. Since you already know javascript, a lot of the standard ideas from procedural languages will carry over, but python has a few quirks. The main one is that they use indentation as the syntax to define what we call “blocks” in a real procedural language like javascript, Java, c or C++. And the scoping rules are simple: just procedure level scope and global scope. There are lots of good tutorials on the python.org website.
Once you are comfortable in python, then have a look at either MLS or DLS, the first two “specializations” that really introduce you to Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Note that you need Linear Algebra to understand MLS and DLS, but you don’t need calculus knowledge. It helps with the intuition, but the courses here are structured not to require you to actually know any calculus. Of course, that’s the classic “good news/bad news” scenario: a lot of the important math involved is based on matrix calculus, so you just have to take Professor Ng’s word for the various formulas.
Welcome to our community, @Stahelski!