The following are a few ideas for how you can get the most out of this book:

All examples in this book use R codes. So before getting started with it, you should havea good foundation in the R language. As per Confucius, "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." This is true for this book, too. A hands-on approach of working with the codes while going through the chapters will be very useful in understanding the deep learning models.

All the codes in this book were successfully run on a Mac computer that had 8 GB of RAM. However, if you are working with a much larger dataset compared to what has been used in this book for illustration purposes, more powerful computing resources may be required in order to develop deep learning models.  It will also be helpful to have a good foundation in statistical methods.