Generative Deep Learning from Scratch - Build Neural Networks in 5+ HOURS with Python
Ready to dive into the creative power of AI? This hands-on course teaches you how to build and train real machine learning and deep learning models—from basic classifiers to powerful generative and style transfer networks.
This course includes.
Curriculum & lectures.
+ 00 Welcome! 2 lectures
+ 00a Foundations of Generative Deep Learning 2 lectures
+ 00b Building Blocks of Generative Architectures 3 lectures
+ 01 Project Previews 5 lectures
+ 02 Collect and Process Data 6 lectures
+ 03a Generative Neural Network Fundamentals 9 lectures
+ 03b Build a Generative Neural Network 3 lectures
+ 04 Build a Discriminator Neural Network 3 lectures
+ 05 Evaluate the Model's Performance 5 lectures
+ 06 Train the Model to Draw 4 lectures
+ 07 Test the Model's Drawing Ability 2 lectures
+ 08 Build an Image Style Transfer Project 11 lectures
+ 09 Build an Image Approximation Project 8 lectures
About this course.
Designed for beginners and aspiring AI creators, you'll work through interactive projects that blend technical foundations with creative applications, using Python and modern ML tools.
✅ Learn the fundamentals: ML vs. deep learning, neural networks, and unsupervised learning
✅ Build your first models directly on the web with step-by-step guidance
✅ Load and label drawing datasets for custom training
✅ Visualize, batch, and shuffle data for effective model performance
✅ Understand CNNs, dense layers, batch normalization, and activation functions like Leaky ReLU and TanH
✅ Build generative neural networks and generate images from noise
✅ Create and train discriminators to improve generated output
✅ Calculate loss and optimize with Adam for better accuracy
✅ Train and test models while visualizing training performance
✅ Explore a full style transfer project—apply artistic styles to your images using deep learning
✅ Build datasets, train neural nets, and visualize creative approximations
✅ And much more!
🧠 Master key concepts with clear explanations, creative coding exercises, and real-world model building.
🧩 Access for life, full source code to add to your portfolio today, a Mammoth Club code compiler with practical coding tasks, and engaging quizzes—all combined in one comprehensive package!
If you want to combine creativity with cutting-edge AI and actually build models that generate and transform images—this course is your creative AI launchpad. Enroll now and start building.
Taught by people who ship.
Alex Kropf
Mammoth Club's CLO, public speaker, consultant, IT author and Senior Software Developer. Alex has produced best-selling courses, books and workshops for Mammoth Club, Course Pro and our clients since 2016.
Bundled items.
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Ready to dive into the creative power of AI? This hands-on course teaches you how to build and train real machine learning and deep learning models—from basic classifiers to powerful generative and style transfer networks.