From Coursera to Omdena in 1 year

Throughout the rest of my high school, I learned about game development, advanced data structures and algorithms, but not much about AI. The only exposure I had to Machine Learning was this website here, which didn't make a whole lot of sense to me back then. Fast forward, I returned to India and was attending Eastern Public School, finishing up my 12th grade with an International Baccalaureate diploma. I started the Stanford University Machine Learning course taught by Dr. Andrew Ng, http://ml-class.org/. The best part is it does not use any high level libraries to teach the concepts to you, so you have to use MATLAB to answer all the programming assignments.