Programming is a virtue

   While I make my progress through learning machine learning, I will talk about the courses that I take. The first course that I have completed is the machine learning course taught by Andrew Ng. Andrew Ng is the co-founder of Coursera and has taught at Stanford University as well as worked with companies to make groundbreaking progress in artificial intelligence. The class is free to take and gives you insight into both the mathematical and practical applications of machine learning. This course includes, linear regression, logistic regression, k-means clustering, principal component analysis, applications of neural networks, and others as well. The course takes 11 weeks to complete with about 3 hours committed to each week if you watch all the videos, take all the quizzes, and complete the programming assignment at the end of each week. The course uses Octave as the programming language for the programming assignments. I had no experience in Octave before taking the course ...

"Computers are dumb, you have to talk to a computer like you were talking to a 1 year old" - My Professor for Intro to Programming Let's face it, programming can be hard, especially starting out. Nothing seems to do what you expect it to do, there's all these rules that you have to follow, and you just wanted the code to build a simple calculator for a school project! And by the end of the day, you are mentally exhausted and you want to throw your computer out the window (If this sounds familiar, please keep reading I have good news for you!).  A little background about me first. I didn't start programming until I was 18 and in college. And the first course I took in programming was a nightmare! My professor was used to teaching PhD students and the administration forced him to teach the hungover freshmen the fundamentals of C programming (The grandpa of modern programming languages). I along with about half the class withdrew from this course after 5 weeks...