Udemy Machine Learning: Decent course, excellent community

This post is part of "AI education", a series of posts that review and explore educational content on data science and machine learning. When it comes to software development education, I'm a classical type: I prefer books over video tutorials, and I like to manually write every single line of code instead of copy-pasting from sample files and Stack Exchange. My early experience with online artificial intelligence and machine learning courses had mostly left me disappointed. So, when Udemy gave me access to their online course "Machine Learning A-Z: Hands-On Python & R In Data Science," I was a bit skeptical. But after going through the course, I must say that the instructors, Kirill Eremenko and Hadelin de Ponteves, have done a great job to make machine learning, a fairly complicated topic, accessible to a wide audience.