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Free AI & ML course: 50 lessons, from the basics through to the advanced topics interviewers actually ask about. Every lesson is free, needs no sign-up, and runs in your browser with an editor and instant AI feedback.

AI & ML Course Syllabus — 50 Lessons

Work through them in order, or jump to the topic you need. 50 lessons include worked explanations and runnable examples.

AI Fundamentals

• What is Artificial Intelligence? — Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science and technology of making computers perform tasks that normally require human intelligence — recognizing faces, understanding speech, translating languages, writing text, playing chess, driving…
• Types of AI: Narrow, General, and Super AI — AI is classified into three types based on capability.

Machine Learning

• What is Machine Learning? — Machine Learning (ML) is a way of building AI where the computer learns from examples (data) instead of being given explicit rules.
• Supervised Learning — Teaching with Labels — Supervised Learning is the most common type of ML.
• Unsupervised Learning — Finding Hidden Patterns — Unsupervised Learning finds patterns in data WITHOUT labels.
• Decision Trees & Random Forest — A Decision Tree is a flowchart-like model that makes decisions by splitting data based on feature values.
• Data Preprocessing & Feature Engineering — "Data preprocessing" is preparing raw data for ML models.
• Model Evaluation — Is My AI Good Enough? — Building an ML model is only half the job.
• Linear & Logistic Regression — Regression is one of the oldest and most useful ML techniques.
• Ensemble Methods — Combining Models for Better Predictions — An ensemble combines multiple "weak learners" into a strong predictor.
• Gradient Boosting & XGBoost — The Industry Standard — Gradient Boosting is the most powerful supervised learning algorithm for tabular/structured data.

Deep Learning

• Neural Networks — How Machines — A Neural Network is a computational system inspired by the human brain.
• Reinforcement Learning — AI that Learns by Doing — Reinforcement Learning (RL) is the type of ML where an agent learns to make decisions by trial and error — getting rewards for good actions and penalties for bad ones.
• The Perceptron — Building Block of Neural Networks — The Perceptron, invented by Frank Rosenblatt in 1958, is the simplest neural network — a single layer with one neuron per output.
• Activation Functions — Adding Non-Linearity to Neural Networks — Activation functions introduce non-linearity into neural networks.
• Backpropagation — How Neural Networks Learn — Backpropagation (backprop) is the algorithm that trains neural networks.
• Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) — How AI Sees Images — Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are specialised neural networks designed for processing grid-like data such as images.
• RNN & LSTM — Neural Networks for Sequences — Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) process sequences by maintaining a hidden state that is updated at each step.
• Autoencoders — Neural Networks for Dimensionality Reduction — An Autoencoder is a neural network that learns to compress data.
• GANs — Generative Adversarial Networks Explained — A GAN is a game between two neural networks: a Generator (creates fake data) and a Discriminator (judges real vs fake).
• Q-Learning — AI Learning Through Trial and Error — Q-Learning is a fundamental Reinforcement Learning algorithm.

Generative AI

• Generative AI — How ChatGPT and Gemini Create Content — Generative AI is AI that creates new content — text, images, music, code, videos — rather than just classifying or predicting.
• Prompt Engineering — Get Better Results from AI — Prompt Engineering is the skill of crafting effective instructions (prompts) for AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to get better, more accurate, and more useful responses.
• LLM Optimization — Fine-tuning and Prompt Strategies — Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Claude are powerful out-of-the-box, but you can make them even better for specific tasks through fine-tuning and prompt optimization.

AI Applications

• Natural Language Processing (NLP) — Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the branch of AI that enables computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language (natural language — not programming language).
• Computer Vision — How AI Sees the World — Computer Vision is the field of AI that enables machines to interpret and understand visual information from the world — images, videos, and live camera feeds.
• Recommendation Systems — How Netflix and YouTube Suggest Content — Recommendation Systems are AI algorithms that suggest relevant items to users.
• Time Series Analysis — Predicting Trends Over Time — Time Series data is data collected at regular time intervals — temperature every hour, stock prices every minute, website visitors every day, monthly sales figures.

AI in Society

• AI Safety & Ethics — The Responsible Use of AI — As AI becomes more powerful, questions of safety, fairness, and ethics become critical.
• AI in India — How India Uses and Builds AI — India is one of the world's fastest-growing AI markets.
• AI Career Paths — Jobs and Skills for the Future — AI is one of the fastest-growing career fields globally.
• The Future of AI — What to Expect by 2030 — AI is advancing faster than any technology in history.

AI Programming

• Python for AI — Libraries Every AI Student Must Know — Python is the dominant language for AI and Machine Learning — not because it's the fastest (it isn't), but because of its rich ecosystem of libraries that make complex tasks simple.
• Using AI APIs — ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude in Your App — You don't need to train your own AI model to build AI-powered apps.
• Deploying ML Models — From Notebook to Production — Training an ML model is only 10% of the work.
• MLOps — Operating ML Systems in Production — MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) is the discipline of managing ML systems end-to-end: data pipeline, model training, validation, deployment, monitoring, retraining.

Supervised Learning

• Support Vector Machines (SVM) — Finding the Best Boundary — A Support Vector Machine (SVM) finds the best decision boundary (hyperplane) that separates two classes with the maximum margin.
• K-Nearest Neighbours (KNN) — Classify by Your Neighbours — K-Nearest Neighbours (KNN) is one of the simplest ML algorithms.
• Naive Bayes — Simple Probabilistic Classification — Naive Bayes is a probabilistic classifier based on Bayes' Theorem.

Unsupervised Learning

• PCA — Dimensionality Reduction — Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a technique to reduce the number of features (dimensions) in a dataset while preserving as much information as possible.
• Hierarchical Clustering — Building a Tree of Groups — Hierarchical Clustering builds a tree-like structure (dendrogram) of clusters without needing to specify K upfront.
• DBSCAN — Density-Based Clustering — DBSCAN (Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) groups points that are closely packed together while marking isolated points as outliers (noise).

Model Evaluation

• ROC Curve & AUC — Measuring Classifier Quality — The ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curve plots True Positive Rate vs False Positive Rate at various classification thresholds.
• Cross Validation — Getting a Reliable Performance Estimate — Cross Validation (CV) gives a more reliable estimate of model performance by training and testing on different subsets of the data multiple times.
• Overfitting vs Underfitting — The Goldilocks Problem — Overfitting happens when a model learns the training data too well — including the noise and random fluctuations — so it performs great on training data but poorly on new data.
• Bias-Variance Tradeoff — The Core ML Theory — Every ML model's prediction error can be decomposed into three parts: Bias + Variance + Irreducible Noise.

Advanced

• Transfer Learning & Fine-Tuning — Transfer Learning reuses a model trained on one task (usually large-scale) as the starting point for a different but related task.
• Transfer Learning & Fine-Tuning — Transfer Learning reuses a model trained on one task (usually large-scale) as the starting point for a different but related task.
• Hyperparameter Tuning & AutoML — Hyperparameter tuning optimizes model parameters (learning rate, tree depth, regularization) that control learning behavior.

NLP

• TF-IDF — Measuring Word Importance in Documents — TF-IDF (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency) is a numerical statistic that measures how important a word is to a document within a collection (corpus).

Who this AI & ML course is for

School and college students in India starting from zero, and anyone revising AI & ML for placements, board practicals or a project. There is no prerequisite beyond being able to type — the first lessons assume no programming background at all.

How to study this course

1. Read the lesson, then run the example in the built-in editor before moving on — reading code is not the same as writing it.
2. Try the practice task at the end of each lesson. Getting it wrong and fixing it is where the learning happens.
3. When you are stuck, ask the free AI Tutor to explain that specific line rather than skipping ahead.

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