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I think fast.ai is the more "programmer-y" do-first-learn-as-you-need approach, and Andrew Ng's is the more "math-y" learn-basics-work-your-way-up approach, and

• tinymollusk 9y ago
  This is true, but it's more than that: the fastai professors (Jeremy + Rachel) have studied how people learn. How teachers can structure courses to maximize understanding. They believe (and have research backing them up), that the way we teach math (base and rote concepts, building until you can understand something complex) is sub-optimal. They dive into the code and get stuff done, then later bubble back up for concepts. For me, it was bewildering at first, but if you can trust your instructor, you trust they won't leave you stranded. (It does also require the type of student who does a lot of study on their own!)