
AI & Machine Learning: Foundations & Data – Volume 1 is designed for secondary school, vocational education, introductory computing courses, coding clubs, homeschooling and independent study. No previous experience in artificial intelligence or machine learning is required.
The book guides learners from the foundations of AI to building and evaluating their first machine learning models. Clear explanations are supported by practical examples, Python code, diagrams, comparison tables, key-concept boxes and real-world applications.
Topics include:
• What Artificial Intelligence is and how it developed
• Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Computer Vision and Robotics
• AI applications across Europe
• The EU AI Act and responsible AI development
• Python, Anaconda and virtual environments
• Jupyter Notebook, Google Colab, Kaggle and Visual Studio Code
• Data handling with NumPy and Pandas
• Missing data and real-world datasets
• Data visualisation with Matplotlib and Seaborn
• Supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning
• Training, validation and test datasets
• Overfitting, underfitting and evaluation metrics
• Linear regression and feature engineering
• Scikit-learn workflows and hyperparameter tuning
• K-Nearest Neighbours, Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines and Random Forests
This resource can be used as a complete introductory course book, a student reference guide or a foundation for further study in advanced machine learning, deep learning and generative AI.
It is also designed to work alongside the related AI & Machine Learning No-Prep Lessons. These ready-to-teach lesson packs include presentations, worksheets, classroom activities, answer keys, assessments and exit tickets, helping teachers turn the book content into structured classroom instruction with minimal preparation.
Please note: This listing contains the course book only. Individual No-Prep Lesson packs and complete teaching bundles are available separately.
Something went wrong, please try again later.
This resource hasn't been reviewed yet
To ensure quality for our reviews, only customers who have purchased this resource can review it
Report this resourceto let us know if it violates our terms and conditions.
Our customer service team will review your report and will be in touch.