Bengio & Goodfellows book, while a great reference, is certainly not what I'd recommend for beginners. It's great for experienced folks IMHO, but otherwise it's

Bengio & Goodfellows book, while a great reference, is certainly not what I'd recommend for beginners. It's great for experienced folks IMHO, but otherwise it's quite opaque. I've used it to teach in the past and beginners really struggled with it. Still an amazing reference though!