MNIST Tutorial For ML Beginners https://www.tensorflow.org/get_started/mnist/beginners Download the MNIST data from http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/ To some local directory like D:\Private_work\MNIST_TF\input_data ls input_data/ t10k-images-idx3-ubyte.gz t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz python mnist_softmax.py --data_dir "D:\Private_work\MNIST_TF\input_data"