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AI & Robotics Beginner

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Eight weeks from Python basics to training your first machine learning models — no prior programming experience required.

★★★★★ 4.8 (298 ratings) ⏰ 8 weeks

About this program

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence is designed for learners who are curious about AI but have never written a line of code. You'll start with Python fundamentals in week one, then move quickly into the ideas that power modern AI — data, statistics, and how machines "learn" from examples rather than explicit rules.

By the final weeks, you'll be training and evaluating your own machine learning models on real datasets, and you'll leave with a working understanding of where AI is genuinely useful, where it isn't, and how to keep learning past this course.

Core competencies

Python Foundations

Variables, control flow, functions and working with data in Python.

Data & Statistics

Cleaning datasets, descriptive statistics and visualizing patterns.

Machine Learning Basics

Training, testing and evaluating classification and regression models.

Applied AI Thinking

Recognizing good AI use cases and the limits of what models can do.

8-week learning path

WEEKS 1–2Python for AI▼
  • Python syntax, data structures and writing your first scripts
  • Working with libraries: NumPy and pandas
  • Loading and exploring your first dataset
WEEKS 3–4Data & Statistics▼
  • Cleaning messy, real-world data
  • Descriptive statistics and visualization with matplotlib
  • Milestone: exploratory data analysis report
WEEKS 5–6Machine Learning Foundations▼
  • Supervised learning: regression and classification
  • Training, testing and validation splits
  • Milestone: your first trained model
WEEKS 7–8Capstone Project▼
  • Choosing and scoping a real-world AI problem
  • Building, evaluating and presenting your model
  • Demo day presentations to peers and instructors

What graduates say

Susan Wambui
Cohort of January 2026
★★★★★

I had zero coding background. By week 8 I'd built a model that predicted housing prices and actually understood why it worked.

Kevin Otiende
Cohort of January 2026
★★★★★

The Illustrator explains the math without drowning you in it. This was the confidence boost I needed before the full Data Science track.