Building Neural Networks

Rating:
Summary: okay starting point, be prepared to buy a more thorough text
Review: The book serves as a luke warm introdution to neural networks. For the reader planning on applying the material in an industrial setting the book is far from sufficient. An average entry-level programmer could probably successfully code a couple of different types of neural networks as the book supplies nicely written pseudo-code for only couple types. As soon as the reader is interested in pursuing any kind of variation on these basic networks he hits a dead-end wall with 'references for further study' carved in the concrete.

For early undergraduate and advanced highschool students the text provides a great introduction to the field without wasting time on opinion and praising. Rather the reader can dive write into the heart of basic neural network algorithms and brief analyses of why they work and what they are good for.