Overall the CNN section of lessons covers a lot of content and does provide a good amount of useful information, however I think it lacks in areas of preparing the student for those concepts. I am assuming of course that Udacity does not expect any students to have any prior experience with Deep Learning, if this is not the case, then perhaps not too much more introduction to new concepts may be necessary.
For one, it is my opinion that any new terms or concepts should be properly explained/defined in the video they are introduced in. It is confusing and disorienting to refer to concepts that were never defined.
While there is a lot of good content in the lessons, I highly suggest use of animations to better explain the overall architecture of CNNs. After the application of CNN section, we are thrown into an actual implementation of a CNN and Quiz on this implementation with no real understanding of how a CNN actually works when compared to the neural network we learned in DL section (MLP). Perhaps this is just an issue in the lesson sequence.
Overall the CNN section of lessons covers a lot of content and does provide a good amount of useful information, however I think it lacks in areas of preparing the student for those concepts. I am assuming of course that Udacity does not expect any students to have any prior experience with Deep Learning, if this is not the case, then perhaps not too much more introduction to new concepts may be necessary.
For one, it is my opinion that any new terms or concepts should be properly explained/defined in the video they are introduced in. It is confusing and disorienting to refer to concepts that were never defined.
While there is a lot of good content in the lessons, I highly suggest use of animations to better explain the overall architecture of CNNs. After the application of CNN section, we are thrown into an actual implementation of a CNN and Quiz on this implementation with no real understanding of how a CNN actually works when compared to the neural network we learned in DL section (MLP). Perhaps this is just an issue in the lesson sequence.