The Art of Modelling

A static course website for first-principles machine learning lessons by Sayan Patra.

Pages

• index.html: homepage with course introduction, roadmap, about section, and motive.
• courses.html: course library.
• lessons/simple-linear-regression.html: Week 1 lesson page.
• assets/style.css: course-style off-white warm, minimal design system.
• assets/script.js: mobile navigation, reading progress bar, and active lesson sidebar.

How to run locally

Open index.html directly in your browser.

For a cleaner local server, run one of these from the repo folder:

python3 -m http.server 8000

Then open:

http://localhost:8000

How to deploy

Good beginner-friendly options:

• GitHub Pages
• Netlify
• Vercel

Since this is a static website, no backend is required.

Design direction

The website uses a warm, reading-first style:

• off-white background
• soft cards
• brown/orange accent
• sticky navigation
• lesson sidebar
• responsive layout
• minimal JavaScript

Next improvements

• Add MathJax or KaTeX for better equations.
• Add diagrams for OLS, residuals, and gradient descent.
• Add Python code examples.
• Add quizzes and checkpoints.
• Add more weekly modules.