# The Perceptron

DevFeed: [The Perceptron](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-perceptron-18206.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.francofernando.com/p/the-perceptron>)

Author: Franco Fernando

Published: 2026-07-18T05:44:10Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [The Polymathic Engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-polymathic-engineer.md>)

Topics: [Neural Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/neural-network.md>)

Tags: [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [neural](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/neural.md>)

## AI overview

An explanation of how the perceptron works as a simple classification model and its role as a building block of neural networks.

## Source excerpt

How the simplest classification model works, and why it is the building block of every neural network.