Learning path

Fifteen phases, from my first Python script in August 2023 to agentic AI. Each phase lists its notes in order. 129 of 179 topics written up.

1. Phase 1 · 4 Aug 2023 – 31 Oct 2023

   Python

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   1. Python · Setup: installing Python and running a script 4 Aug 2023
   2. Python · Syntax: indentation, comments, print 8 Aug 2023
   3. Python · Types: int, float, bool, None 11 Aug 2023
   4. Python · Strings: indexing, slicing, methods 16 Aug 2023
   5. Python · Strings: f-strings and formatting 21 Aug 2023
   6. Python · Lists 24 Aug 2023
   7. Python · Tuples and unpacking 29 Aug 2023
   8. Python · Dictionaries 1 Sept 2023
   9. Python · Sets 5 Sept 2023
   10. Python · Control flow: if, for, while 8 Sept 2023
   11. Python · Functions: arguments and return values 13 Sept 2023
   12. Python · Functions: *args, **kwargs and scope 18 Sept 2023
   13. Python · Comprehensions 21 Sept 2023
   14. Python · Modules and imports 26 Sept 2023
   15. Python · Files: reading and writing 29 Sept 2023
   16. Python · Exceptions 3 Oct 2023
   17. Python · OOP: classes and objects 6 Oct 2023
   18. Python · OOP: inheritance and dunder methods 11 Oct 2023
   19. Python · Iterators 16 Oct 2023
   20. Python · Generators 19 Oct 2023
   21. Python · Decorators 24 Oct 2023
   22. Python · venv and pip 27 Oct 2023
2. Phase 2 · 1 Nov 2023 – 31 Jan 2024

   C++

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   1. C++ · Basics: compiling and hello world 1 Nov 2023
   2. C++ · Variables, types and I/O 6 Nov 2023
   3. C++ · Control flow 9 Nov 2023
   4. C++ · Pointers 14 Nov 2023
   5. C++ · References 17 Nov 2023
   6. C++ · Arrays 22 Nov 2023
   7. C++ · std::string 27 Nov 2023
   8. C++ · Functions and overloading 1 Dec 2023
   9. C++ · OOP: classes and constructors 6 Dec 2023
   10. C++ · OOP: inheritance and virtual functions 11 Dec 2023
   11. C++ · Templates 14 Dec 2023
   12. C++ · STL: vector 19 Dec 2023
   13. C++ · STL: map and unordered_map 22 Dec 2023
   14. C++ · STL: set 27 Dec 2023
   15. C++ · STL: algorithms 2 Jan 2024
   16. C++ · Memory: new, delete and RAII 5 Jan 2024
   17. C++ · Smart pointers 10 Jan 2024
   18. C++ · DSA: stack and queue 15 Jan 2024
   19. C++ · DSA: binary search 18 Jan 2024
   20. C++ · DSA: sorting 23 Jan 2024
   21. C++ · DSA: linked list 26 Jan 2024
3. Phase 3 · 1 Feb 2024 – 29 Feb 2024

   NumPy

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   1. NumPy · ndarray basics 1 Feb 2024
   2. NumPy · dtypes 5 Feb 2024
   3. NumPy · Indexing and slicing 8 Feb 2024
   4. NumPy · Boolean and fancy indexing 12 Feb 2024
   5. NumPy · Broadcasting 15 Feb 2024
   6. NumPy · Vectorisation 20 Feb 2024
   7. NumPy · Linear algebra 22 Feb 2024
   8. NumPy · Random numbers 27 Feb 2024
4. Phase 4 · 1 Mar 2024 – 31 Mar 2024

   Pandas

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   1. Pandas · Series and DataFrame 1 Mar 2024
   2. Pandas · Reading and writing files 5 Mar 2024
   3. Pandas · Selection with loc and iloc 7 Mar 2024
   4. Pandas · Cleaning data 12 Mar 2024
   5. Pandas · Missing data 14 Mar 2024
   6. Pandas · groupby 18 Mar 2024
   7. Pandas · merge and join 21 Mar 2024
   8. Pandas · pivot_table 25 Mar 2024
   9. Pandas · Time series 27 Mar 2024
5. Phase 5 · 1 Apr 2024 – 30 Apr 2024

   Matplotlib (+ Seaborn)

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   1. Matplotlib · Figure and Axes 1 Apr 2024
   2. Matplotlib · Line, bar, scatter and histogram 4 Apr 2024
   3. Matplotlib · Subplots 10 Apr 2024
   4. Matplotlib · Styling 16 Apr 2024
   5. Matplotlib · Seaborn statistical plots 19 Apr 2024
   6. Matplotlib · Mini EDA project 25 Apr 2024
6. Phase 6 · 1 May 2024 – 31 Jul 2024

   Probability and Statistics

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   1. Probability and Statistics · Descriptive statistics 1 May 2024
   2. Probability and Statistics · Probability rules 7 May 2024
   3. Probability and Statistics · Conditional probability 14 May 2024
   4. Probability and Statistics · Bayes' theorem 21 May 2024
   5. Probability and Statistics · Random variables 27 May 2024
   6. Probability and Statistics · Discrete distributions 3 Jun 2024
   7. Probability and Statistics · Continuous distributions 10 Jun 2024
   8. Probability and Statistics · Central Limit Theorem 17 Jun 2024
   9. Probability and Statistics · Sampling 21 Jun 2024
   10. Probability and Statistics · Point and interval estimation 28 Jun 2024
   11. Probability and Statistics · Hypothesis tests 5 Jul 2024
   12. Probability and Statistics · t-test and chi-square 11 Jul 2024
   13. Probability and Statistics · Correlation 18 Jul 2024
   14. Probability and Statistics · Simple linear regression 25 Jul 2024
7. Phase 7 · 1 Aug 2024 – 31 Dec 2024

   Machine Learning

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   1. Machine Learning · The ML workflow 1 Aug 2024
   2. Machine Learning · Linear regression 9 Aug 2024
   3. Machine Learning · Gradient descent 19 Aug 2024
   4. Machine Learning · Logistic regression 27 Aug 2024
   5. Machine Learning · Regularisation: ridge and lasso 4 Sept 2024
   6. Machine Learning · k-nearest neighbours 12 Sept 2024
   7. Machine Learning · Decision trees 20 Sept 2024
   8. Machine Learning · Random forest 30 Sept 2024
   9. Machine Learning · Boosting and XGBoost 8 Oct 2024
   10. Machine Learning · Support vector machines 16 Oct 2024
   11. Machine Learning · k-means clustering 24 Oct 2024
   12. Machine Learning · Hierarchical clustering and DBSCAN 1 Nov 2024
   13. Machine Learning · PCA 11 Nov 2024
   14. Machine Learning · Model evaluation metrics 19 Nov 2024
   15. Machine Learning · Cross-validation 27 Nov 2024
   16. Machine Learning · scikit-learn pipelines 5 Dec 2024
   17. Machine Learning · Feature engineering 13 Dec 2024
   18. Machine Learning · Hyperparameter search 23 Dec 2024
8. Phase 8 · 1 Jan 2025 – 30 Apr 2025

   Deep Learning

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   1. Deep Learning · The perceptron 1 Jan 2025
   2. Deep Learning · Multilayer perceptron 9 Jan 2025
   3. Deep Learning · Backpropagation 20 Jan 2025
   4. Deep Learning · Activation functions 28 Jan 2025
   5. Deep Learning · Optimisers: SGD, momentum, Adam 6 Feb 2025
   6. Deep Learning · Weight initialisation 17 Feb 2025
   7. Deep Learning · Batch normalisation 25 Feb 2025
   8. Deep Learning · Dropout 6 Mar 2025
   9. Deep Learning · PyTorch tensors and autograd 14 Mar 2025
   10. Deep Learning · PyTorch training loop 25 Mar 2025
   11. Deep Learning · CNN intro 3 Apr 2025
   12. Deep Learning · RNN 11 Apr 2025
   13. Deep Learning · LSTM and GRU 22 Apr 2025
9. Phase 9 · 1 May 2025 – 31 Jul 2025

   NLP

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   1. NLP · Text preprocessing 1 May 2025
   2. NLP · Tokenisation 9 May 2025
   3. NLP · Bag of words and TF-IDF 20 May 2025
   4. NLP · word2vec 28 May 2025
   5. NLP · GloVe 6 Jun 2025
   6. NLP · Seq2seq 17 Jun 2025
   7. NLP · Attention (Bahdanau) 25 Jun 2025
   8. NLP · Named entity recognition 4 Jul 2025
   9. NLP · Sentiment analysis 14 Jul 2025
   10. NLP · Text classification 23 Jul 2025
10. Phase 10 · 1 Aug 2025 – 30 Sept 2025

    Computer Vision

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    1. Computer Vision · Image basics 1 Aug 2025
    2. Computer Vision · OpenCV essentials 8 Aug 2025
    3. Computer Vision · CNN architectures: LeNet to AlexNet 15 Aug 2025
    4. Computer Vision · CNN architectures: VGG and ResNet 25 Aug 2025
    5. Computer Vision · Transfer learning 1 Sept 2025
    6. Computer Vision · Object detection and YOLO 8 Sept 2025
    7. Computer Vision · Segmentation and U-Net 16 Sept 2025
    8. Computer Vision · Data augmentation 23 Sept 2025
11. Phase 11 · 1 Oct 2025 – 31 Dec 2025

    Transformers

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12. Phase 12 · 1 Jan 2026 – 31 Mar 2026

    LLMs

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13. Phase 13 · 1 Apr 2026 – 31 May 2026

    LangChain

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14. Phase 14 · 1 Jun 2026 – 31 Jul 2026

    Generative AI

    0/8 topics
15. Phase 15 · 1 Aug 2026 – 29 Oct 2026

    Agentic AI

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