AI Learning Roadmap (Detailed - 1 Year)

Week 1-4: Introduction to AI - Theoretical Foundations and Python Basics

This phase focuses on understanding the fundamentals of AI, its applications, and
starting Python programming as a tool for AI development.
AI Theory Basics:
1. What is AI?
o Understanding Artificial Intelligence and its real-world applications
(e.g., AI in healthcare, finance, robotics, etc.)
o Key concepts: Machine Learning (ML), Neural Networks, Natural
Language Processing (NLP), Reinforcement Learning (RL).
2. History of AI:
o Evolution of AI: Turing Test, Expert Systems, Modern Deep Learning.
3. Ethical AI:
o Issues like fairness, bias in algorithms, accountability, and AI regulation.
Python Programming for AI:
1. Basic Syntax & Data Types:
o Variables, Operators, Functions, Loops, Lists, Tuples, Dictionaries.
2. Python Libraries:
o Introduction to NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborn, scikit-learn.
Projects:
1. Build a Python-based calculator to understand functions and control flow.
2. Create a data visualization dashboard using matplotlib for practice with Python
data manipulation.
Resources (English):
1. AI for Everyone (Coursera, Andrew Ng):
URL: https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone
2. Python Basics (freeCodeCamp):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfscVS0vtbw
3. Machine Learning Introduction (Tech with Tim):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eh4d6sabA0
Resources (Hindi):
1. Python Basics (CodeWithHarry):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfDE2a7MKjA
2. AI Basics and Ethics (Simplified AI):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNdDjeVfuA0
3. AI & ML Introduction (Geeky Shows):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OZ7T1qD82M

Week 5-8: Understanding and Applying Machine Learning

Machine learning forms the foundation of many AI applications. This phase is all
about learning the core machine learning algorithms and using them for practical
applications.
Theory to Learn:
1. Supervised Learning:
o Concepts: Regression vs Classification, overfitting and underfitting.
o Algorithms: Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, KNN,
SVM.
2. Unsupervised Learning:
o Clustering: K-means, Hierarchical Clustering.
o Dimensionality Reduction: PCA (Principal Component Analysis).
3. Model Evaluation:
o Cross-validation, confusion matrix, accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score.
Resources (English):
1. Supervised Learning and Regression (freeCodeCamp):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eh4d6sabA0
2. Introduction to Machine Learning with Python (Corey Schafer):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXfEklKpVt8
3. Machine Learning by Andrew Ng (Coursera):
URL: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
Resources (Hindi):
 1. Machine Learning Basics (CodeWithHarry):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo_Fg-ua6IE
2. AI and ML Concepts (Simplified AI):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz2jwlNNLOM
3. Machine Learning with Scikit-learn (Geeky Shows):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUROtI9NeMk
Projects:
1. Build a Simple Linear Regression model to predict housing prices.
2. Implement K-Means clustering to group customers based on purchase
behavior.

Week 9-12: Deep Learning Basics

Start diving into the heart of modern AI—Deep Learning. Deep learning powers many
recent AI breakthroughs, such as image recognition, voice assistants, and NLP.
Theory to Learn:
1. Neural Networks:
o Basics: Neurons, layers, activation functions, weights, and bias.
o How Neural Networks Learn: Forward propagation, backpropagation,
loss function, optimization.
2. Deep Learning Frameworks:
o Introduction to TensorFlow and Keras: Building and training deep neural
networks.
3. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs):
o Understanding CNN layers and applications in Image Classification.
Resources (English):
1. Deep Learning with Python (freeCodeCamp):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPYj3fFJGjk
2. Introduction to TensorFlow (TensorFlow Channel):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPYj3fFJGjk
3. Deep Learning Specialization (Coursera):
URL: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning
Resources (Hindi):
1. Deep Learning (CodeWithHarry):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h8xwGsDiw0
2. Deep Learning in Hindi (Simplified AI):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx2tN5DCkfg
3. Deep Learning Tutorial (Geeky Shows):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N2V2gykz3Q
Projects:
1. Implement a Convolutional Neural Network for classifying images from the
CIFAR-10 dataset.
2. Create a neural network for handwriting recognition using MNIST dataset.

Week 13-16: Natural Language Processing (NLP)

NLP is essential for tasks such as chatbots, sentiment analysis, and text generation.
Learn how to process and understand text data.
Theory to Learn:
1. Text Preprocessing:
o Tokenization, stop words, stemming, and lemmatization.
o TF-IDF (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency).
2. Word Embeddings:
o Word2Vec, GloVe, and FastText: Understanding word vectors and
semantic meaning.
3. Advanced NLP Models:
o BERT, GPT, Transformer-based models.
Resources (English):
1. NLP with Python (freeCodeCamp):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bNmHee6jFc
2. Transformers and BERT (Hugging Face):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb5Yc02y8U4
3. Practical NLP with Python (Python Engineer):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnxM1j0bOg
Resources (Hindi):
1. NLP in Python (CodeWithHarry):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1q-Q_Eu2XI
2. NLP Tutorials (Simplified AI):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbZcFhQT5_U
3. Sentiment Analysis (Edureka Hindi):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhvI2tzxD8k
Projects:
1. Sentiment Analysis using NLP (e.g., movie reviews or Twitter data).
2. Build a text summarizer using transformer-based models like BERT.

Week 17-20: Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Learn about RL, a key area for developing intelligent agents that interact with the
environment and make decisions.
Theory to Learn:
1. Reinforcement Learning Basics:
o Markov Decision Process (MDP), Rewards, Actions, States, Policies.
2. Q-Learning:
o The algorithm behind RL, value iteration, Bellman equation.
3. Deep Q Networks (DQN):
o Using deep learning to solve RL problems.
Resources (English):
1. Reinforcement Learning Specialization (Coursera):
URL: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/reinforcement-learning
2. Deep Reinforcement Learning with Python (freeCodeCamp):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2cD1qfjbzQ
Resources (Hindi):
1. Reinforcement Learning Introduction (CodeWithHarry):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzzU7VRMbn0
2. Deep Reinforcement Learning (Simplified AI):
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-4S8zBvPHQ