Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree Handbook

The Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree program handbook provides essential information for students, including resources, timelines, and support structures. Each student is assigned a personal mentor and has access to forums and Slack for collaboration. The program spans six months with a cost of $800 per term, emphasizing project completion and peer support for successful graduation.

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Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree Handbook

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Artificial Intelligence

NANODEGREE PROGRAM

Student Handbook
Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree program. As one of the first
students in this unique program, you are already ahead of the curve. You are on your
path to joining the world’s next artificial intelligence engineers, a field growing as fast
as the technology itself. To prepare you to succeed in the program, we compiled
essential information in this digital handbook. Congratulations on your first big step.
Table of Contents

Meet the Team 4

Your Resources 7

What to Expect 14

Further Reading 25
Meet the Team
Meet the Team

Instructors - Arpan Chakraborty, David Joyner

Services Lead - Mike Salem
Leads - Oliver Cameron, Jessica Lulovics
Community - Lisbeth Ortega
Your Resources
Your Mentor
Each Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree program student gets his or her own personal mentor.
This mentor will get to know you, your learning style, and will be able to help you get exactly
what you want out of your Nanodegree program.

With Mentorship you’ll be able to:

• Get help from your mentor without even leaving the classroom
• Receive 1:1 on-demand support via your personal chat channel
• Stay on track through weekly check-ins
Find Your Mentor in the Classroom
Forums
In the Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree program, you’ll have access to an exclusive forum. In
this forum you’ll not only be able to talk to other passionate students, but also receive help from
our expert Coaches and dedicated staff.

We monitor and respond to an ongoing stream of detailed feedback from student forum
participants, and this has allowed us the opportunity to constantly refine, enhance, and upgrade
the model. Thanks to your feedback in the forums, we can ensure the Nanodegree program
improves over time.
Find Forums in the Classroom
Slack
Udacity students of a single class can interact with each other live via Slack. With a designated
private channel for your class, connect directly with students who are online the same time as
you: ask questions, exchange ideas, and get to know your fellow classmates.

Join the Slack Team for Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree students. Once you’re in, click on
Channels, and introduce yourself on the #introductions channel!
Support
If you have specific questions related to course content or projects, please post to the Forums,
where peers & forum mentors can help!

If you have questions about the program structure or your enrollment, issues with the classroom,
or any other questions or concerns that a Udacity staff member can help with, please reach out
at [email protected].
What to Expect

See our full Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree FAQ and general Udacity FAQ.
Class Timeline Pacing
This is a unique, two-term program that requires students to keep pace with their peers
throughout the duration of the program. Each term is around 3 months. The entire Nanodegree
program takes 6 months to complete.
Class Timeline Curriculum
Read all about the Term 1 curriculum in our in-depth blog post.
Class Timeline Deadlines
There are two components to deadlines:
1. Deadline for submitting all projects: In order to graduate a term, you must submit all
projects by the last day of the term and pass all projects once they are reviewed by a Udacity
Reviewer (the review may take place after the last day of the term). Passing a project means
a Udacity Reviewer has marked a project as “Meets Specifications.”
2. Suggested deadlines for projects: We strongly encourage you to submit all projects by
their individual deadline to stay on track, but there is no penalty for submitting a project past
its individual deadline. You are able to submit each project until the last day of the term.
Class Timeline Passing All Projects
Our coaches and mentors will work directly with any students who are struggling with the
timeline requirements. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that every single student accepted into the
program successfully graduates.

If you do not submit all projects by the end of the term and also pass all projects once
they are reviewed:
• You are moved to the previous class and will not graduate with your class. You will only be
moved back a class a maximum of once. If you are moved back more than once you will no
longer be a part of the program.
Class Timeline Time Dedication

15 HOURS / WEEK

Between instructional content, quizzes, projects, and other course-related activity, we estimate
that investing 15 hours/week will enable you to proceed through the program at a successful
pace.
Class Timeline Schedule
Find the dates for each of your project deadlines next to the respective lesson in your
classroom.

Term Start First Day of Class

Project 1 Build a Game-Playing Agent
Project 2 Implement a Planning Search
Project 3 Design a Sign Language Recognition System
Term End End of Term
Hiring Partner Program
THE PROGRAM
Our Hiring Partners provide Udacity students from all over the world direct and preferential exposure to new jobs.
We work directly with recruiters and hiring managers at each company to get our students fast-tracked into open
opportunities. Students are evaluated for these positions based on skills, experience, and the projects showcased
in their unique Udacity portfolios.

UDACITY PROFILE & CAREERS LESSONS

Begin your job search by keeping your Udacity Profile up to date and turning “Recruiter Access” on your profile to
“On.” This lets us know you want us to share your profile with recruiters. See our Careers Resource Center, Hiring
Partner FAQ here, and read about the kinds of artificial intelligence jobs in the field.
Community
Finding support in fellow students can make all the difference in your educational experience.
Every student offers their own unique knowledge and skills, and that’s exactly what makes your
classmates valuable resource as you move through the program.

Take advantage of the Forums, Slack, or even form a study group. These are all spaces to
exchange ideas, questions and progress with your classmates.
Community (cont.)
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Community events will give you the opportunity to meet classmates both on and offline (dependent on location),
team-build and take part in extracurricular opportunities.

STUDY GROUPS
Interested in forming a study group? Try Meetup to form a local study group. Share it with other students on Slack
and ask Community Manager, Lisbeth, to get the word out. If you want to request a study group near you, submit
here, and we’ll match you with other students in your area.
Policy
COST
The Nanodegree program costs $800 per 3-month term

REFUND
Students have a 7-day window from the day they receive access to the program, the first day of their class, to un-
enroll and request a refund. To request a refund, email [email protected].
Further Reading
Courses on Udacity
Deep Learning Nanodegree Foundation
Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree by Google
Artificial Intelligence for Robots (Free Course)
Intro to Statistics (Free Course)
Programming Foundations with Python (Free Course)
Introduction to Computer Vision
Reading Resources
AI Nanodegree Program Syllabus: Term 1, In Depth (Dhruv Parthasarathy)
6 areas of AI and machine learning to watch closely (Medium)
Machine Learning is Fun! An introduction to Machine Learning (Medium)
Are Udacity Nanodegrees worth it for finding a job? (Quora)
Understanding LSTM Networks (Christopher Ola)
A Beginner's Guide To Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks (Adit Deshpande)
Transmission.ai - Self Driving Car & Deep Learning Newsletter (Oliver Cameron)
Most Cited Deep Learning Papers (Github)
News / Resources
What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie (Andrej Karpathy)
Neuron explained using simple algebra (Medium)
26-year-old hacker gets $3M for self-driving car startup (CNN)
Identifying rare diseas, lung cancer and more with Deep Learning (Transmission)
3D Faces Generated From 2D Photos, Machines Learning to Hand-Write & More (Transmission)
App Helps Fishermen Instantly ID Their Catch (NVIDIA)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks (Andrej Karpathy)
Write an AI to win at Pong from scratch with Reinforcement Learning (Medium)
Datasets
Kaggle
Reddit
Aggregate of Datasets
Other Resources
Stanford Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
Deep Learning Framework written in Swift to use on apple devices (written by @amund)
Image Segmentation From comma.ai