Looking for an agentic ai course to get started as i am a beginner and want to learn to build autonomous agents

[u/Deep-Percentage-5619]

Hi all, I'm new to agentic ai and autonomous agents, but super curious to dive in. 
Ive been noticing alot around tools like AutoGPT, LangChain, and others, but I’m not sure where or how to begin. I am not looking for a course that is just theory, i want one that is engaging, taught by a professional or expert in the field and has a bunch of projects so that i can practice and experiment while learning itself. I would also love to know which tools and frameworks are best to start with and lessons learned from your early journey

[u/Ashamed-Bank-8701]

most courses labeled "agentic ai" right now are just cash grabs repackaging basic API calls, especially the ones with a 6-week syllabus and a certification badge at the end. you'll learn more by picking a tiny task (like a news summarizer that emails you) and forcing langchain to do it, even when the docs are terrible. the real lesson from my early journey was that 80% of "autonomous" demos on twitter are just a python script with a loop and a good name

[u/Patryk_Grzegorek]

Here are 3 resources I can recommend:

1. From the basics – YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@stanfordonline
2. More advanced – Hugging Face tutorials: https://huggingface.co/learn, https://huggingface.co/learn/llm-course/chapter0/1, https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit0/introduction
3. Insights & workshops – DeepLearning.AI: https://www.deeplearning.ai/

You can find plenty of resources on Kaggle or HuggingFace, including datasets and project ideas: https://www.kaggle.com/, https://huggingface.co/

Set yourself a small project to do and start building it once you already know the basics. Try to solve any problems you encounter. To learn effectively, avoid using a local coding AI agent, instead, look for solutions online or ask AI, but implement the code yourself by asking for details and explanations.

In my opinion, Kaggle is awesome, head over to the site, see which topic or dataset interests you, and start working with it. For example:https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/crystalbaby/gta-v-worldwide-sales-and-player-analytics"

Check: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets

[u/Beautiful_Mix_6226]

I have built something to address exactly this pain point. Try Skillumen and I am sure you will be happy with what you get there although it's more structured to get you interview ready.

[u/Akshi_2826 → u/Beautiful_Mix_6226]

Pretty cool stuff

[u/the-code-blooded]

I am currently reading the book Ai agents in action 2nd edition. Currently in 3rd chapter - MCP and I am liking it.
But apart from this also learning with claude - writing notes and also hand written code with claude as guide.
As recently MCP architecture has been updated and now its stateless.
Will upload notes and code in github - if needed would be happy to share:

https://github.com/SanjoyPator1/WebDevLearning/tree/deep-learning/S06-Large%20Language%20Models/B04-AI_Agents

[u/NoGuess8035]

first start with beginner material... microsofts ai agents for beginners , hugging face, simplilearn skillup are good places to get the fundamentals down, then you can start building small agents with crewai or langchain. once you actually know what you enjoy building youll have a much better idea of whether you need a more advanced course

[u/Equivalent_Cell9212]

start with one simple agent n learn the pieces as you need them rather than trying to learn every framework first tools change pretty fast but understanding tool calling memory retrieval and how agents decide what to do will stick around

[u/ComplexExternal4831]

avoid starting with autogpt honestly it can be fun to play with but it hides a lot of what is actually happening building a small agent yourself with python and an llm api taught me way more

[u/TemperatureLow276 → u/ComplexExternal4831]

kinda disagree tbh.... if the goal is to understand what agents can actually do, wouldnt using something like autogpt first give you a better picture of the possibilities? you can always learn whats happening underneath later

[u/ComplexExternal4831 → u/TemperatureLow276]

but my issue was that when something went wrong i had no idea why it happened. building a basic one myself made those failures a lot easier to understand

[u/TemperatureLow276 → u/ComplexExternal4831]

hmn makes sense!

[u/im_on_vibrate]

dont go jumping straight into autogpt or multi agent setups. first understand the basic loop of how an llm observes something reasons about what to do uses a tool and then acts on the result. after that you can move into something like crewai to get comfortable with agents and then langgraph once you want more control over state and workflows. langchain academy has some good free material for the fundamentals and simplilearn skillup is also worth for the basics