The fastai book

How to get started with the fastai book.

This information is for readers of the Early Access version of Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch and of the fastai draft notebooks.

Note that these require you to use fastai v2, which is currently in pre-release. During pre-release, this module is called fastai. The draft notebooks contain the correct imports for fastai, but the PDF book does not - it uses fastai. Therefore, you should change fastai to fastai in all import statements.

Install

Clone the draft notebooks repo, and then from that directory:

pip install -r requirements.txt

It is best to first install fastai v1 to ensure you have all the correct dependencies. See the docs for details.

How to use

To get started, run Jupyter Notebook (or use one of the online Jupyter platforms listed at https://course.fast.ai) and click on the app_jupyter.ipynb notebook.

We'll be adding more information to this site as the official book release in July 2020 gets closer.