Learner Reviews & Feedback for Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning by University of Alberta
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MN
Apr 12, 2024
The concepts may sound confusing in the beginning, but as you go forward you find it interesting and understanding. I suggest you completely read the reading assignments before watching the videos.
KS
Sep 2, 2019
All the concepts were well explained and this course was perhaps the best I have found for RL.Great efforts have been put into making the course and It goes well in line with the suggested textbook.
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By Simon N
•Dec 20, 2020
Very good introduction. Helps you get through Sutton and Barto (free pdf supplied).
By חן א
•Feb 22, 2023
Enjoyed very much. A very good starting point for RL. Intend to continue further.
By Anirudh B
•May 13, 2020
Needs more coding implementation according to me. But overall theory was good.
By Zia M U D
•May 4, 2020
Tutors are fantastic, but should also focus on programming not just on theory.
By Mohamed H
•Feb 14, 2020
I think it will be perfect if the board and pen are used to drive equations.
By Maxim V
•Jan 7, 2020
Good content, but most of it is in the textbook, not so much in the videos.
By Eli K
•Oct 31, 2021
Programming exercises teach the material a lot better than quizzes
By Sri R R A
•Apr 17, 2020
The course was cool but needed some more programming assignments.
By Cha S
•Dec 12, 2024
Very good but slightly outdated/overkill in the age of DQL
By Mohamed M S
•Aug 4, 2024
it s very interesting course with exellent way to instruct
By Francisco J R A
•Jun 15, 2020
Excellent in terms of learning the foundations of RL.
By 袁之日
•Mar 29, 2021
There could be more coding examples for each module.
By Jeroen v H
•Oct 17, 2019
Quite theoretical. But a good base of the concepts.
By Rupesh S
•Oct 6, 2022
More elaboration on the maths part will help.
By Luis G B
•Nov 7, 2022
Good, but it just introduce the fundamentals
By Husam D
•Nov 4, 2019
I wished there were more coding assignments
By Shahram E
•Jun 25, 2020
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By Matin S
•Jan 13, 2022
it was a bit hard in code assignments
By Deleted A
•Oct 26, 2019
Interesting course.
By Michael M
•Apr 30, 2024
Good course !
By Arnaud 3
•Oct 10, 2021
good course
By Abhishek U
•Jan 21, 2022
Great
By 배병선
•Oct 31, 2019
Good!
By Arpan M
•Oct 17, 2020
good
By Austin H
•Mar 19, 2022
I found this course difficult to get through, even tedious towards the end; this is a fundamentals course after all so it being heavily theoretical was to be expected.
I found the practical assessments challenging and very good for developing the understanding of what had been taught; however one practical in the first week and one in the fourth week was too few. I was longing for the final assignment!
It remains to be seen how relevent this is to the upcoming modules (I do feel that I have a good grounding and understanding of the underlying process so maybe it was a necessary slog). I hope that they are more practical!
Very small observation: the use of bespoke Python packages with the online notebooks was also a bit frustrating. I like to be able to work off line (e.g. in Anaconda) and I also wanted to try and work out some of the challenges in R but without access to the bespoke packages it would have been too involved. I understand that you have a lot of students though and online notebooks are easier to manage.