Pedro Domingos ML course on Coursera is also very good. Regarding neural nets, there's no better intro than online book by Michael Nielsen: http://neuralnetwork

Pedro Domingos ML course on Coursera is also very good. Regarding neural nets, there's no better intro than online book by Michael Nielsen: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ The best way to learn is to avoid any libraries, and try to code the fundamental algorithms (SVM, KNN, MLP, etc) from scratch. The language is not important, so I'd stick with Java if that's what you know best.