Assessment Results:
- 75% real implementation vs 25% educational scaffolding
- Working end-to-end training on CIFAR-10 dataset
- Comprehensive architecture coverage (MLPs, CNNs, Attention)
- Production-oriented features (MLOps, profiling, compression)
- Professional development workflow with CLI tools
Key Findings:
- Students build functional ML framework from scratch
- Real datasets and meaningful evaluation capabilities
- Progressive complexity through 16-module structure
- Systems engineering principles throughout
- Ready for serious ML systems education
Gaps Identified:
- GPU acceleration and distributed training
- Advanced optimizers and model serialization
- Some memory optimization opportunities
Recommendation: Excellent foundation for ML systems engineering education
- Fixed test functions to only run when modules executed directly
- Added proper __name__ == '__main__' guards to all test calls
- Fixed syntax errors from incorrect replacements in Module 13 and 15
- Modules now import properly without executing tests
- ProductionBenchmarkingProfiler (Module 14) and ProductionMLSystemProfiler (Module 16) fully working
- Other profiler classes present but require full numpy environment to test completely
- Delete all 15 .ipynb files from modules/source directories
- Align with TinyTorch's Python-first development philosophy
- .py files are the source of truth, .ipynb files are temporary outputs
- Prevents version control conflicts with notebook metadata
- Students work directly with .py files using Jupytext format
- Notebooks can be regenerated when needed via 'tito nbdev generate'
Removed files:
- All *_dev.ipynb files across modules 01-15
- Keeps repository clean and focused on source code
