Understanding and coding Neural Networks From Scratch in Python and R

I prefer Option 2 and take that approach to learning any new topic. I might not be able to tell you the entire math behind an algorithm, but I can tell you the intuition. I can tell you the best scenarios to apply an algorithm based on my experiments and understanding. In my interactions with people, I find that people don't take time to develop this intuition and hence they struggle to apply things in the right manner. In this article, I will discuss the building block of a neural network from scratch and focus more on developing this intuition to apply Neural networks.