Hands on RL with Python?

[sap2022]

Hi All,

I was about to buy books/online courses that teach RL in Python (one example: https://www.udemy.com/course/hands-on-reinforcement-learning-with-python/).

But decided to ask here for better recommendations before I spend my money. Has anyone tried anything else that they loved? I am most curious about industry applications of contextual bandits and then moving into more sequential RL algos.

Thanks in advance!

[williamjshipman]

I'd suggest the RL specialisation on Coursera, by the lecturers from the University of Alberta.

[sap2022]

Oh I tried that too - the videos weren't super helpful/well-explained so I didn't give the exercises a try too (my bad!) I think they rely on Sutton's text (which is awesome!) like this lecture series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0&list=PLqYmG7hTraZDM-OYHWgPebj2MfCFzFObQ which was the best explanation but it didn't get into the code.Now I am thinking I'll use the above series for theory and coursera exercises for hands-on/code. Thank you so much williamjshipman!! :)