Here is the course web-page that we will be following for this class:
**https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter0/1**
Here is the auxiliary nlp course web-page from Stanford:
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/
The following texts are useful, but none are required. All of them can be read free online.
If you have no background in neural networks but would like to take the course anyway, you might well find one of these books helpful to give you more background: