🧭 4-Year Roadmap for B.
Tech in CSE (AI & ML)
(With 🔗 Verified Course Links)
✅ Year 1 – Build Foundations & Habits
📚 Core Goals
Learn core programming: Python / C++ / Java
Master programming fundamentals, OOP, problem solving
Start DSA with arrays, strings, recursion
🎓 Courses & Resources
🔗 Python for Everybody – Coursera (University of Michigan)
🔗 Harvard CS50 – edX
🔗 W3Schools Python
🔗 HackerRank DSA Track
🧪 Projects
Calculator CLI
Rock-paper-scissors
ATM simulation
To-do app (terminal-based)
✅ Year 2 – Specialization Starts
📚 Core Goals
Advance DSA: Trees, Graphs, Dynamic Programming
Learn Machine Learning basics
🎓 Courses & Resources
🔗 IBM Machine Learning – Coursera
🔗 Google Data Analytics – Coursera
🔗 Linux Command Line Basics – Coursera
🔗 FreeCodeCamp APIs & Microservices
🧪 Projects
House price predictor
Resume scanner using NLP
Portfolio site (HTML/CSS/JS or Flask)
✅ Year 3 – Real Projects + Internships
📚 Core Goals
Learn Deep Learning, CNNs, Transformers
Build real AI-powered products
Participate in hackathons & open-source programs
🎓 Courses & Resources
🔗 Deep Learning Specialization – Coursera (Andrew Ng)
🔗 LangChain Documentation (for LLM apps)
🔗 Hugging Face Transformers Course
🔗 GSSoC – GirlScript Summer of Code
🔗 Outreachy (Paid open source internships)
🔗 Google Summer of Code
🧪 Projects
ChatGPT-style bot
Resume builder with GPT
Personal portfolio search engine
Real-time face detection with OpenCV
✅ Year 4 – Final Prep & Career Launch
📚 Core Goals
Revise DSA + CS core (DBMS, OS, CN, OOPs)
Master System Design basics
🎓 Courses & Resources
🔗 Scaler Academy (Free DSA content)
🔗 Grokking the System Design Interview (paid)
🔗 DAAD Germany (Masters Abroad)
🔗 Turing.com – Remote developer jobs
🧳 Applications:
Google STEP, Microsoft Engage
Research internships (AI2, ETH Zurich, IITs)
Jobs in ML, LLM, data science startups
📚 Recommended Book Roadmap
Phase Books
Programming Python Crash Course, Python for Data
Analysis
ML Math Mathematics for ML (Deisenroth), Think Stats
ML Core Hands-On ML (Geron), ISLR
Deep Learning Deep Learning with Python (Chollet), Goodfellow
Specializations NLP with Python, Deep Learning for CV
Advanced Designing Data-Intensive Apps (Kleppmann), ML Apps
(Ameisen)
🏆 Hackathon Mastery Tips
🎓 Tools:
Prompt Tools: ChatGPT, Gemini
APIs: Supabase, V0.dev (UI generator)
Deploy: Hugging Face Spaces, Render
💡 Strategy:
Build MVP fast, polish later
Use sponsor APIs creatively
Record Loom demo in case of failure
Highlight impact in pitch ("saves 2 hrs/day")
🙏 Warm wishes to everyone working on becoming the best version of
themselves.
Let’s learn. Build. Share. Repeat.
👨💻 Made by: Shamique Khan
🔗 GitHub
🔗 LinkedIn
