This curriculum provides an overview of free online resources for learning about deep learning, covering introductory courses and deeper dives into specific topics such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and natural language processing. It also highlights important people to follow in the field, including pioneers like Geoff Hinton, Andrew Ng, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Ian Goodfellow, Andrej Karpathy, Alex Graves, Oriol Vinyols, and others. The curriculum includes recommended early deep learning papers that provide foundational knowledge for building a mental model of the field, such as those by Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Ng, and Yann LeCun.