I see everyone talking about Andrew Ng's ML course and having some difficulty with octave. Why is no one trying the new ML with Python series by UW on Coursera? It seems pretty well structured.
Honestly Octave/Matlab isn't a problem I've found. If you are vaguely familiar with any programming languages it shouldn't be a problem. To me Matlab is just another tool to express my thoughts just like any other programming language. Sure it as has some things to learn, but it's not like it's a whole new paradigm or anything. Personally I struggled more with getting the linear algebra right than the syntax of Matlab