I'm also doing this course right now. Having MSc degree in computer science helps a lot, although I got my diploma as long as 10 years ago, but still some math sticked with me.
My biggest regret is that my day job as developer does not leave me with much time for more Octave programming. Of course I do excercises, but that's not enough to be good ML developer.
However, I think that just having a lot of sample code would be helpfull if I ever make ML my full time job. Especially considering that the excercises themselves are pretty interesting (handwriting recognition, image compression, etc).
My biggest regret is that my day job as developer does not leave me with much time for more Octave programming. Of course I do excercises, but that's not enough to be good ML developer.
However, I think that just having a lot of sample code would be helpfull if I ever make ML my full time job. Especially considering that the excercises themselves are pretty interesting (handwriting recognition, image compression, etc).