I'm currently going through the course (at week 5 at the moment).
Work per week: can vary between 6 to 12 hours depending on the week and your background and willingness to dive into some demonstrations.
Pre-requisite: first, you definitely need to save some quality time otherwise you'll drop out (I heard the completion rate is around 10%). I feel that having a bit of matrix computations, algebra background helped. Some parts are easy, other parts are harder (but YMMV).
Programming language used: octave; while it's nice to work at that level of abstraction, I found the "feedback loop" very slow when you submit exercises, so in the end I used https://github.com/MOxUnit/MOxUnit with http://entrproject.org/ to have a faster feedback loop (anyone can email me at thibaut.barrere@gmail.com to get more details). This is especially useful when dealing with vectorization of computations.
Overall I found that the course is great for me (coming from an ETL, programming background with some solid maths exp at some point), and I'm learning quite a bit; a good introduction with a pragmatic viewpoint.
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I'm currently going through the course (at week 5 at the moment).
Work per week: can vary between 6 to 12 hours depending on the week and your background and willingness to dive into some demonstrations.
Pre-requisite: first, you definitely need to save some quality time otherwise you'll drop out (I heard the completion rate is around 10%). I feel that having a bit of matrix computations, algebra background helped. Some parts are easy, other parts are harder (but YMMV).
Programming language used: octave; while it's nice to work at that level of abstraction, I found the "feedback loop" very slow when you submit exercises, so in the end I used https://github.com/MOxUnit/MOxUnit with http://entrproject.org/ to have a faster feedback loop (anyone can email me at thibaut.barrere@gmail.com to get more details). This is especially useful when dealing with vectorization of computations.
Overall I found that the course is great for me (coming from an ETL, programming background with some solid maths exp at some point), and I'm learning quite a bit; a good introduction with a pragmatic viewpoint.