[0xmohit]

Having taken the myself, I couldn't agree more.

The class is meant to introduce one to machine learning. As such, the problems are usually fairly simple and one wouldn't need to cheat unless all one is attempting to do it to solve those without looking at either the leture videos or slides.

(Translating from Python to Octave might, on the other hand, require more effort in comparison to implementing the solutions in Octave.)