How is your programming background? Do some contest on hackerrank and gauge your skill because machine leaning uses lots of algorithm from math + computer scien

How is your programming background? Do some contest on hackerrank and gauge your skill because machine leaning uses lots of algorithm from math + computer science (eg computational geometry). Machine learning is basically writing some math in code and running experiment and statistically reason about result. If you really want to do that then you need to have a background in math + statistics + software development.