Programming Machine Learning

Setting Up Your System

We’re about to embark on an ML tutorial that spans the entire first part of this book. We’ll start from scratch and end with a working computer vision program. Later on, that same program will be our starting point toward higher peaks: neural networks in Part II of this book, and deep learning in Part III.

You might want to approach this tutorial hands-on, running the source code for this book, and solving the exercises at the end of most chapters. Alternatively, you might prefer to read through and get the big picture before you grab the keyboard. Both approaches are feasible, although programmers often go for the first.

If you prefer the hands-on approach, it won’t take long to set up your system and run this book’s ...