There's also GNU Octave as a free (and largely compatible) alternative to MATLAB. Andrew Ng's original ML course on Coursera used Octave. As a developer who'd n

There's also GNU Octave as a free (and largely compatible) alternative to MATLAB. Andrew Ng's original ML course on Coursera used Octave. As a developer who'd never use it (or MATLAB) before, I found Octave very easy to use. Newer ML courses use Python because of it's subsequent adoption by PyTorch.