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Andrew's new deep learning courses (http://www.deeplearning.ai) all use Python. When I last spoke to him he was no longer enthusiastic about using Octave/Matlab for teaching.

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I also saw that his new deep learning courses are in Python. He may have changed his mind about teaching in Octave for his traditional Machine Learning courses, but I still learned a great deal and I feel like I have a strong intuition of how ML algorithms (and neural nets) work.

There is some truth to Octave having a faster turnaround than Python, if you're new to programming. I feel like with Deep Learning you really have to bite the bullet, but his courses are just fine with Octave/Matlab - with respect to getting an intuitive feel for the algorithms.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's probably for similar reasons that you chose PyTorch over Tensorflow :)

Yes I do think his ML course is still wonderful, as I said in the post :) However I don't think that Octave is better than Python for teaching or understanding machine learning concepts.

I just don't think his courses deserve a knock, or that your course will be better because it uses Python. Both courses can be great :)

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