A Medium publication with guides on learning programming, web development and machine learning quickly, plus accounts of side projects.
HN commenters link its Machine Learning in a Year and a Week posts as learning paths and compare them with Udacity's course.
The best tip I've seen for learning programming is to code along with videos, while also trying to predict what the presenter will code. Doing that allows you to get going quickly without too much frustration. I like that I can experiment and ask myself questions but still have a working program at the end.
The article I read about this is at https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/a-simple-technique-to-learn-hard-stuff-ffaa7879bf7c
Or how does it compare to udacity's intro to machine learning? https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-machine-learning--ud120 it was recommended in https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/machine-learning-in-a-year-cdb0b0ebd29c#.x85qc8nsn
I did a one week ml stunt last year: https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/machine-learning-in-a-week-a0da25d59850#.y8pe9o9qm
I'd recommend starting with the Kaggle Bag of Words tutorial.
This is a great article about learning machine learning: https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/machine-learning-in-a-year-cdb0b0ebd29c#.8jvs9lr7q