Yeah, I wanted to understand how they worked, so I stayed away from any framework.<p>I have since moved over to using Theano, Lasagne &amp; nolearn. However, I almost find it just as hard, because it&#x27;s so easy to step wrong and get errors, and so hard to debug. In addition, Lasagne &amp; nolearn doesn&#x27;t exactly have great documentation of tutorials available (they have some, but I like to try out many tutorials to get perspective and get a proper understanding).<p>I&#x27;m far from good enough to turn my implementations into frameworks :p