diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1a203bb7..30643299 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Read the docs & book [The Definitive Guide to Tensorflow.NET](https://tensorflow
 Run specific example in shell:
 
 ```cs
-dotnet TensorFlowNET.Examples.dll "EXAMPLE NAME"
+dotnet TensorFlowNET.Examples.dll -ex "MNIST CNN"
 ```
 
 Example runner will download all the required files like training data and model pb files.
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.nn.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.nn.cs
index 025d3d57..cb9b0b97 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.nn.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.nn.cs
@@ -79,23 +79,12 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             /// <param name="swap_memory"></param>
             /// <param name="time_major"></param>
             /// <returns>A pair (outputs, state)</returns>
-            public static (Tensor, Tensor) dynamic_rnn(RNNCell cell, Tensor inputs, TF_DataType dtype = TF_DataType.DtInvalid,
-                bool swap_memory = false, bool time_major = false)
-            {
-                with(variable_scope("rnn"), scope =>
-                {
-                    VariableScope varscope = scope;
-                    var flat_input = nest.flatten(inputs);
-
-                    if (!time_major)
-                    {
-                        flat_input = flat_input.Select(x => ops.convert_to_tensor(x)).ToList();
-                        //flat_input = flat_input.Select(x => _transpose_batch_time(x)).ToList();
-                    }
-                });
-
-                throw new NotImplementedException("");
-            }
+            public static (Tensor, Tensor) dynamic_rnn(RNNCell cell, Tensor inputs,
+                int? sequence_length = null, TF_DataType dtype = TF_DataType.DtInvalid,
+                int? parallel_iterations = null, bool swap_memory = false, bool time_major = false)
+                => rnn.dynamic_rnn(cell, inputs, sequence_length: sequence_length, dtype: dtype,
+                    parallel_iterations: parallel_iterations, swap_memory: swap_memory,
+                    time_major: time_major);
 
             public static Tensor elu(Tensor features, string name = null)
                 => gen_nn_ops.elu(features, name: name);
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/BasicRNNCell.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/BasicRNNCell.cs
index 1bed4773..61086076 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/BasicRNNCell.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/BasicRNNCell.cs
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ namespace Tensorflow
         int _num_units;
         Func<Tensor, string, Tensor> _activation;
 
+        protected override int state_size => _num_units;
+
         public BasicRNNCell(int num_units,
             Func<Tensor, string, Tensor> activation = null,
             bool? reuse = null,
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/rnn.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/rnn.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5f94a0fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/NnOps/rnn.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+/*****************************************************************************
+   Copyright 2018 The TensorFlow.NET Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+
+   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+   You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+******************************************************************************/
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Linq;
+using static Tensorflow.Python;
+using Tensorflow.Util;
+
+namespace Tensorflow.Operations
+{
+    internal class rnn
+    {
+        public static (Tensor, Tensor) dynamic_rnn(RNNCell cell, Tensor inputs,
+            int? sequence_length = null, Tensor initial_state = null, 
+            TF_DataType dtype = TF_DataType.DtInvalid,
+            int? parallel_iterations = null, bool swap_memory = false, bool time_major = false)
+        {
+            with(tf.variable_scope("rnn"), scope =>
+            {
+                VariableScope varscope = scope;
+                var flat_input = nest.flatten(inputs);
+
+                if (!time_major)
+                {
+                    flat_input = flat_input.Select(x => ops.convert_to_tensor(x)).ToList();
+                    flat_input = flat_input.Select(x => _transpose_batch_time(x)).ToList();
+                }
+
+                parallel_iterations = parallel_iterations ?? 32;
+
+                if (sequence_length.HasValue)
+                    throw new NotImplementedException("dynamic_rnn sequence_length has value");
+
+                var batch_size = _best_effort_input_batch_size(flat_input);
+
+                if (initial_state != null)
+                {
+                    var state = initial_state;
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    cell.get_initial_state(batch_size: batch_size, dtype: dtype);
+                }
+            });
+
+            throw new NotImplementedException("");
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Transposes the batch and time dimensions of a Tensor.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="x"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public static Tensor _transpose_batch_time(Tensor x)
+        {
+            var x_static_shape = x.TensorShape;
+            if (x_static_shape.NDim == 1)
+                return x;
+
+            var x_rank = array_ops.rank(x);
+            var con1 = new object[]
+            {
+                new []{1, 0 },
+                math_ops.range(2, x_rank)
+            };
+            var x_t = array_ops.transpose(x, array_ops.concat(con1, 0));
+
+            var dims = new int[] { x_static_shape.Dimensions[1], x_static_shape.Dimensions[0] }
+                .ToList();
+            dims.AddRange(x_static_shape.Dimensions.Skip(2));
+            var shape = new TensorShape(dims.ToArray());
+
+            x_t.SetShape(shape);
+
+            return x_t;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Get static input batch size if available, with fallback to the dynamic one.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="flat_input"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        private static Tensor _best_effort_input_batch_size(List<Tensor> flat_input)
+        {
+            foreach(var input_ in flat_input)
+            {
+                var shape = input_.TensorShape;
+                if (shape.NDim < 0)
+                    continue;
+                if (shape.NDim < 2)
+                    throw new ValueError($"Expected input tensor {input_.name} to have rank at least 2");
+
+                var batch_size = shape.Dimensions[1];
+                if (batch_size > -1)
+                    throw new ValueError("_best_effort_input_batch_size batch_size > -1");
+                    //return batch_size;
+            }
+
+            return array_ops.shape(flat_input[0]).slice(1);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/RNNCell.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/RNNCell.cs
index cbfe7db8..79da7761 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/RNNCell.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/RNNCell.cs
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Text;
+using Tensorflow.Util;
+using static Tensorflow.Python;
 
 namespace Tensorflow
 {
@@ -48,6 +50,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
         /// difference between TF and Keras RNN cell.
         /// </summary>
         protected bool _is_tf_rnn_cell = false;
+        protected virtual int state_size { get; }
 
         public RNNCell(bool trainable = true,
             string name = null,
@@ -59,5 +62,41 @@ namespace Tensorflow
         {
             _is_tf_rnn_cell = true;
         }
+
+        public virtual Tensor get_initial_state(Tensor inputs = null, Tensor batch_size = null, TF_DataType dtype = TF_DataType.DtInvalid)
+        {
+            if (inputs != null)
+                throw new NotImplementedException("get_initial_state input is not null");
+
+            return zero_state(batch_size, dtype);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Return zero-filled state tensor(s).
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="batch_size"></param>
+        /// <param name="dtype"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public Tensor zero_state(Tensor batch_size, TF_DataType dtype)
+        {
+            Tensor output = null;
+            var state_size = this.state_size;
+            with(ops.name_scope($"{this.GetType().Name}ZeroState", values: new { batch_size }), delegate
+            {
+                output = _zero_state_tensors(state_size, batch_size, dtype);
+            });
+
+            return output;
+        }
+
+        private Tensor _zero_state_tensors(int state_size, Tensor batch_size, TF_DataType dtype)
+        {
+            nest.map_structure(x =>
+            {
+                throw new NotImplementedException("");
+            }, state_size);
+
+            throw new NotImplementedException("");
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Util/nest.py.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Util/nest.py.cs
index 47e4e4aa..ae13b31c 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Util/nest.py.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Util/nest.py.cs
@@ -512,6 +512,14 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Util
             return _yield_value(pack_sequence_as(structure[0], mapped_flat_structure)).ToList();
         }
 
+        public static Tensor map_structure<T>(Func<T, Tensor> func, T structure)
+        {
+            var flat_structure = flatten(structure);
+            var mapped_flat_structure = flat_structure.Select(func).ToList();
+
+            return pack_sequence_as(structure, mapped_flat_structure) as Tensor;
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Same as map_structure, but with only one structure (no combining of multiple structures)
         /// </summary>
diff --git a/test/TensorFlowHub.Examples/TensorFlowHub.Examples.csproj b/test/TensorFlowHub.Examples/TensorFlowHub.Examples.csproj
index f9196dcc..1ba60f1e 100644
--- a/test/TensorFlowHub.Examples/TensorFlowHub.Examples.csproj
+++ b/test/TensorFlowHub.Examples/TensorFlowHub.Examples.csproj
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
-    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.2</TargetFramework>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/ImageProcessing/DigitRecognitionRNN.cs b/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/ImageProcessing/DigitRecognitionRNN.cs
index d7cdfb32..2e9160af 100644
--- a/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/ImageProcessing/DigitRecognitionRNN.cs
+++ b/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/ImageProcessing/DigitRecognitionRNN.cs
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ namespace TensorFlowNET.Examples.ImageProcess
     /// </summary>
     public class DigitRecognitionRNN : IExample
     {
-        public bool Enabled { get; set; } = false;
+        public bool Enabled { get; set; } = true;
         public bool IsImportingGraph { get; set; } = false;
 
         public string Name => "MNIST RNN";
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ namespace TensorFlowNET.Examples.ImageProcess
             var init = tf.global_variables_initializer();
             sess.run(init);
 
-            float loss_val = 100.0f;
+            float loss_val = 100.0f; 
             float accuracy_val = 0f;
 
             foreach (var epoch in range(epochs))
diff --git a/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/Program.cs b/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/Program.cs
index 5f011105..0a4c6721 100644
--- a/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/Program.cs
+++ b/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/Program.cs
@@ -29,8 +29,12 @@ namespace TensorFlowNET.Examples
     {
         static void Main(string[] args)
         {
+            int finished = 0;
             var errors = new List<string>();
             var success = new List<string>();
+
+            var parsedArgs = ParseArgs(args);
+
             var examples = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().GetTypes()
                 .Where(x => x.GetInterfaces().Contains(typeof(IExample)))
                 .Select(x => (IExample)Activator.CreateInstance(x))
@@ -38,14 +42,23 @@ namespace TensorFlowNET.Examples
                 .OrderBy(x => x.Name)
                 .ToArray();
 
+            if (parsedArgs.ContainsKey("ex"))
+                examples = examples.Where(x => x.Name == parsedArgs["ex"]).ToArray();
+
             Console.WriteLine(Environment.OSVersion.ToString(), Color.Yellow);
             Console.WriteLine($"TensorFlow Binary v{tf.VERSION}", Color.Yellow);
             Console.WriteLine($"TensorFlow.NET v{Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(TF_DataType)).GetName().Version}", Color.Yellow);
 
             for (var i = 0; i < examples.Length; i++)
                 Console.WriteLine($"[{i}]: {examples[i].Name}");
-            Console.Write($"Choose one example to run, hit [Enter] to run all: ", Color.Yellow);
-            var key = Console.ReadLine();
+
+            var key = "0";
+            
+            if (examples.Length > 1)
+            {
+                Console.Write($"Choose one example to run, hit [Enter] to run all: ", Color.Yellow);
+                key = Console.ReadLine();
+            }
 
             var sw = new Stopwatch();
             for (var i = 0; i < examples.Length; i++)
@@ -72,14 +85,35 @@ namespace TensorFlowNET.Examples
                     Console.WriteLine(ex);
                 }
 
+                finished++;
                 Console.WriteLine($"{DateTime.UtcNow} Completed {example.Name}", Color.White);
             }
 
             success.ForEach(x => Console.WriteLine($"{x} is OK!", Color.Green));
             errors.ForEach(x => Console.WriteLine($"{x} is Failed!", Color.Red));
 
-            Console.WriteLine($"{examples.Length} examples are completed.");
+            Console.WriteLine($"{finished} of {examples.Length} example(s) are completed.");
             Console.ReadLine();
         }
+
+        private static Dictionary<string, string> ParseArgs(string[] args)
+        {
+            var parsed = new Dictionary<string, string>();
+
+            for (int i = 0; i < args.Length; i++)
+            {
+                string key = args[i].Substring(1);
+                switch (key)
+                {
+                    case "ex":
+                        parsed.Add(key, args[++i]);
+                        break;
+                    default:
+                        break;
+                }
+            }
+
+            return parsed;
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TensorFlowNET.Examples.csproj b/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TensorFlowNET.Examples.csproj
index c9b02f0f..b42c70b3 100644
--- a/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TensorFlowNET.Examples.csproj
+++ b/test/TensorFlowNET.Examples/TensorFlowNET.Examples.csproj
@@ -6,12 +6,6 @@
     <GeneratePackageOnBuild>false</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <Compile Remove="python\**" />
-    <EmbeddedResource Remove="python\**" />
-    <None Remove="python\**" />
-  </ItemGroup>
-
   <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="Colorful.Console" Version="1.2.9" />
     <PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="12.0.2" />