Neural network C++ Guided project tutorial

[-] first, about shortcomings (weaker spots) of the course: to many natively English-speaking persons the first reflex possibly may be of immediately giving a less favorable review due to author's English speech accent which sometimes do and will call for careful and patient rewind of audio to 'learn', to get accustomed to nuances of pronunciation. Still, taking into account that for author English is not native language, i found that he does good job at explaining everything needed and everything going on in the code. The code's English itself is in very understandable English to any programmer (Subtitles for spoken text could be one possible enhancement for course material.) [+] good value: course could be of great value to anyone brave and curious enough to step outside of the usual and now overly fashionable Python/libraries/Tensorflow-encapsulated high abstractions comfort zone while dealing with the construction and implementation of neural network architectures in all their details. I found it very rewarding to follow the author in his efforts to demonstrate and showcase a possible way of creating a topology-wise customizable neural network architecture in a way that is more harder, less forgiving for mistakes, and more patience-demanding - in a C++ code with no AI-dedicated libraries in use. Author's C++ code is very logical; he introduces and brings to viewer's attention necessary additions to classes, new functions when a need for such addition/function arises first time - it helps to see how neural network procedural mechanics actually get chained and interrelated and what leads to what. Patient viewers will get a good reward for their efforts - a mental training and mental "muscle-stretching" for capacity of envisioning data structures, their parameters coming into complex dynamics interplay to enable mathematical abstractions like a neuron, hidden layers and backtracking coming into existence :) It is a great exercise to any programmer! Another of the course pluses is that the course demands some C/C++ knowledge: the viewer must come prepared or, metaphorically speaking - with some homework done already. That is a great thing.