---
id: "/learning-reference/courses-textbooks/"
title: "courses & textbooks: 30 curated resources"
url: "https://skillissue.dev/learning-reference/courses-textbooks/"
---

# courses & textbooks: 30 curated resources

courses & textbooks

[Beginner](/learning-reference/beginner/index.md) [Intermediate](/learning-reference/intermediate/index.md) [Advanced](/learning-reference/advanced/index.md) [Expert](/learning-reference/expert/index.md)

30 resources · page 1 of 1

- 

### [Yorko/mlcourse.ai](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/mlcourse-ai-repo/index.md)

by [Yury Kashnitsky](https://yorko.github.io)

mlcourse.ai GitHub repo (Yury Kashnitsky): materials for the open machine learning course by OpenDataScience.

entity repo Russia en 

- 

### [动手学深度学习 course (Mu Li)](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/course-mu-li/index.md)

by [Mu Li (李沐)](https://courses.d2l.ai/)

Mu Li's free Chinese video course accompanying the book Dive into Deep Learning, with schedule and lecture videos.

Beginner learning_resource course China zh 

- 

### [DataTalksClub MLOps Zoomcamp](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/datatalksclub-mlops-zoomcamp/index.md)

by [DataTalksClub](https://datatalks.club)

DataTalksClub MLOps Zoomcamp GitHub repo: free course on deploying, monitoring and maintaining ML models.

Beginner–Intermediate learning_resource course Germany/Global en 

- 

### [Datawhale leedl-tutorial 李宏毅深度学习教程 (苹果书)](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/datawhale-leedl-tutorial/index.md)

by [Datawhale](https://datawhale.cn)

Datawhale's Chinese deep-learning tutorial based on Hung-yi Lee's lectures, with a free PDF.

Beginner–Intermediate learning_resource book China/Taiwan zh 

- 

### [Datawhale so-large-lm 大模型基础](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/datawhale-so-large-lm/index.md)

by [Datawhale](https://datawhale.cn)

Datawhale so-large-lm GitHub repo: Chinese course on LLM fundamentals based on Stanford CS324 and Hung-yi Lee's lectures.

Beginner learning_resource course China zh 

- 

### [DeepLearning.AI short courses](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/deeplearning-ai-short-courses/index.md)

by [DeepLearning.AI](https://deeplearning.ai/)

DeepLearning.AI short courses catalogue: one- to two-hour courses on LLM applications, agents, fine-tuning and RAG.

Beginner learning_resource course US en 

- 

### [动手学深度学习](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/entry-2/index.md)

by [Aston Zhang, Zachary C. Lipton, Mu Li and Alexander J. Smola](https://d2l.ai/)

Chinese edition of Dive into Deep Learning with text, maths and runnable code.

Beginner learning_resource course China; international zh 

- 

### [Harvard CS50 AI](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/harvard-cs50-ai/index.md)

by [Harvard University (CS50)](https://cs50.harvard.edu/)

Harvard CS50 AI: free introductory course on search, knowledge, optimisation, machine learning and neural networks in Python.

Beginner learning_resource course US en 

- 

### [Hugging Face LLM Course](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/hugging-face-llm-course/index.md)

by [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/)

Hugging Face LLM Course: free course on transformers, datasets, tokenizers, fine-tuning and reasoning models.

Beginner learning_resource course US; France; international en 

- 

### [Hung-yi Lee course index (NTU)](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/hung-yi-lee-course-index-ntu/index.md)

by [Hung-yi Lee (National Taiwan University)](https://speech.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~hylee/)

Hung-yi Lee's NTU homepage indexing all his machine learning and generative AI courses since 2015.

Beginner–Expert learning_resource course Taiwan zh 

- 

### [Hung-yi Lee GenAI-ML 2025 Fall](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/hung-yi-lee-genai-ml-2025-fall/index.md)

by [Hung-yi Lee (National Taiwan University)](https://speech.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~hylee/)

Hung-yi Lee's Introduction to GenAI and ML (Fall 2025) course page at National Taiwan University.

Beginner–Intermediate learning_resource course Taiwan zh 

- 

### [Microsoft Generative AI for Beginners](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/microsoft-generative-ai-for-beginners/index.md)

by [Microsoft](https://opensource.microsoft.com)

Microsoft Generative AI for Beginners GitHub repo: 21 lessons with code on building generative AI applications.

Beginner learning_resource course US en 

- 

### [mlcourse.ai](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/mlcourse-ai/index.md)

by [Yury Kashnitsky (mlcourse.ai)](https://mlcourse.ai/)

mlcourse.ai: open machine learning course from the Open Data Science community, self-paced with assignments.

Beginner learning_resource course Russia en 

- 

### [ModelScope](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/modelscope/index.md)

by [ModelScope (Alibaba)](https://www.modelscope.cn/)

ModelScope: Alibaba's hub of open models, datasets and demos, with Chinese tutorials.

Beginner–Intermediate learning_resource docs China zh 

- 

### [ODS.ai course tracks](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/ods-ai-course-tracks/index.md)

by [Open Data Science (ODS.ai)](https://ods.ai/)

Open Data Science course tracks: Russian-language courses on NLP, LLMs, MLOps and other ML topics.

Beginner–Intermediate learning_resource course Russia ru|en 

- 

### [Учебник по машинному обучению / YSDA ML textbook](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/ysda-ml-textbook/index.md)

by [Yandex School of Data Analysis](https://academy.yandex.com/)

Yandex School of Data Analysis ML textbook in Russian, from basic algorithms to current research, with maths and code.

Beginner learning_resource course Russia ru 

- 

### [CMU 11-667 LLMs: Methods & Applications](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/cmu-11-667-llms-methods-applications/index.md)

by [Carnegie Mellon University](https://www.cmu.edu/)

CMU 11-667 course site: graduate course on large language model methods and applications, with schedule and materials.

Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource course US en 

- 

### [girafe-ai ML course](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/girafe-ai-ml-course/index.md)

by [girafe.ai](https://girafe.ai/)

girafe-ai ml-course GitHub repo: open machine learning course with lecture materials and assignments, in Russian.

Intermediate learning_resource course Russia en|ru 

- 

### [Happy-LLM](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/happy-llm/index.md)

by [Datawhale](https://datawhale.cn)

Datawhale Happy-LLM GitHub repo: Chinese tutorial on building an LLM from scratch, covering tokenizer, pretraining, SFT, LoRA, RAG and agents.

Intermediate learning_resource course China zh 

- 

### [HSE CS wiki](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/hse-cs-wiki/index.md)

by [HSE University Faculty of Computer Science](https://cs.hse.ru/)

HSE Faculty of Computer Science wiki with course pages for machine learning and deep learning, in Russian.

Intermediate learning_resource course Russia ru 

- 

### [Hung-yi Lee ML 2025 Spring](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/hung-yi-lee-ml-2025-spring/index.md)

by [Hung-yi Lee (National Taiwan University)](https://speech.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~hylee/)

Hung-yi Lee's ML 2025 Spring course page: agents, LLM internals, Mamba, post-training, reasoning and model editing.

Intermediate learning_resource course Taiwan zh 

- 

### [Hung-yi Lee ML 2026 Spring](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/hung-yi-lee-ml-2026-spring/index.md)

by [Hung-yi Lee (National Taiwan University)](https://speech.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~hylee/)

Hung-yi Lee's ML 2026 Spring course page at National Taiwan University with lectures and assignments.

Intermediate learning_resource course Taiwan zh 

- 

### [Made With ML](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/made-with-ml/index.md)

by [Goku Mohandas (Made With ML, Anyscale)](https://madewithml.com/)

Made With ML by Anyscale: course on designing, developing, deploying and iterating on production ML applications.

Intermediate learning_resource course US en 

- 

### [Stanford CS229](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/stanford-cs229/index.md)

by [Stanford University](https://www.stanford.edu/)

Stanford CS229 Machine Learning course site with lecture notes on learning algorithms and statistical foundations.

Intermediate learning_resource course US en 

- 

### [Stanford CS25 Transformers United V6](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/stanford-cs25-transformers-united-v6/index.md)

by [Stanford University (CS25)](https://www.stanford.edu/)

Stanford CS25 Transformers United V6 seminar site with talks by researchers on transformer research.

Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource course US en 

- 

### [UK Government AI Playbook](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/uk-government-ai-playbook/index.md)

by [Government Digital Service (UK Government)](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digital-service)

AI Playbook for the UK Government: principles and guidance for civil servants on using AI safely, including procurement.

Intermediate learning_resource guide UK en 

- 

### [Yandex ML Handbook (Учебник по машинному обучению)](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/yandex-ml-handbook/index.md)

by [Yandex Education](https://education.yandex.ru/)

Yandex School of Data Analysis machine learning handbook in Russian, from classical algorithms to deep learning theory, with maths and code.

Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource book Russia ru 

- 

### [YSDA NLP course](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/ysda-nlp-course/index.md)

by [Yandex School of Data Analysis](https://yandexdataschool.com)

YSDA nlp_course GitHub repo: natural-language-processing course from Yandex School of Data Analysis with lectures and notebooks.

Intermediate learning_resource course Russia; international en 

- 

### [Smol Training Playbook (Hugging Face Space)](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/smol-training-playbook-hf/index.md)

by [Hugging Face Smol Models Research](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB)

Hugging Face Smol Training Playbook: end-to-end account of training the SmolLM3 model, including failures and decisions.

Expert learning_resource guide France/US en 

- 

### [Stanford CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch](/foundations/courses-and-learning-paths/stanford-cs336-language-modeling-from-scratch/index.md)

by [Stanford University](https://www.stanford.edu/)

Stanford CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch course site with schedule, lectures and assignments on building LLMs.

Expert learning_resource course US en 

[Plain-text Markdown copy](/learning-reference/courses-textbooks/index.md)
