Are you a book person? A give-me-a-sample-that-I-can-take-apart person? A video tutorial watcher? Someone who loves to parse deep into the technical docs? Or some combination of all of the above?
What has worked for you in learning TensorFlow, Machine Learning, or indeed anything?
For a scientific topic like Machine Learning (or any academic topic from fluid dynamics to literary linguistics), my approach is usually Full-length video courses + TextBooks.
For a practical platform like TensorFlow I tend to start (phase 1) with a couple (2-5) of video tutorials for a high level overview. I then move to (phase 2) written tutorials that show code samples and explain the code. The more samples and the smoother the progression from simple to more complex the better. After a couple (again 2-5) of tutorials I move to (phase 3) trying to implement a few things relying on documentation (official guide/API docs).
Books sometimes can be part of phase 2 as some books are basically written as very good tutorials (like thesehere).
A book to go through. Currently I am going through Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow by Aurelien Geron. Next is your book @Laurence_Moroney “AI and Machine Learning for Coders”
Examples and tutorials especially the ones on Code examples
Competitions
For me, a book is the most consistent way as you get a more academic knowledge. However, it’s the slowest and should be coupled by checking examples, best practises and especially by rolling up your sleeves and starting coding and finding your way with examples and Kaggle competitions
Deep Learning Design Patterns distills models from the latest research papers into practical design patterns applicable to enterprise AI projects. Using diagrams, code samples, and easy-to-understand language, Google Cloud AI expert Andrew Ferlitsch shares insights from state-of-the-art neural networks.
Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras: Regression, ConvNets, GANs, RNNs, NLP, and more with TensorFlow 2 and the Keras API (2nd Edition) by Antonio Gulli (Google), Amita Kapoor, Sujit Pal