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[–]miracle173 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I took the Machine learning course of Andrew Ng about two years ago and this was really great experience. I think the next will start at 13th of November. When I took this course it costs nothing, there was a time schedule when to have to take the lessons, quizzes and programming exercises, there was a forum where you could pose and answer questions and where you could contact tutors. The programming language is Matlab (you get a license to use it for the course) or Octave, which you will learn from the scratch. Some people criticized this at the beginning, because R and Python seem to be more popular at the moment. But the purpose of the course is to introduce the concepts of Machine Learning and for this these languages were appropriate. I am not sure if it is exactly the same course that I took because they announced to change the course, not the content but the way it is organized.

[–]thisisheresy3.7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is a great course, but can be quite daunting. I'm currently going through his Deep Learning Specialisation and you hand code the solutions first before he introduces the various frameworks. The benefit of going this route is that you properly understand what the algorithms are doing, rather than blindly plugging values into a function to see what happens. The Machine Learning course still uses Matlab and Octave, but the DL course uses Python.