Neural Networks for Machine Learning Coursera

The course is broad and pretty decent introductory course, but there is a number of presentation and course design flaws. First, while I'm not sure whether it is solely a Coursera's typical marketing approach to prevent users from refusing the course just because of the minimum amount of time required, or authors' unintended misestimations, but the actual time needed to complete the course is a way more than listed at the course home page, especially assignments. Often the time needed only to run an assignment training with no coding exceeds the given estimate. To get the value from the course one should be prepared to allocate much more time (2x-3x in total). Second, the course is too broad to be called an introductory one but too shallow in terms of math/practical/reasoning details to be named a deep one.