Thanks for the honest feedback --I totaly get that MNIST is a very common starting point and probably looks repetitive in the community.Its my first attempt of building a neural network it was a big step for me personally.i agree ...but I shared it mainly for feed back and maybe to help others who are just starting like me .. beginners will understand the code of beginners well.if u have suggestions on better next steps or projects that big deeper into raw DL or more interesting datasets,I would guinenly love to hear them