Yeah - the updated version is much better (I've completed both of them) just because you don't need to struggle with Matlab.

Overall, this course is extremely good mostly because Ng covers the essential theoretical topics and gives some practical advice. Also, the topics are explained really well and you do not need to look up additional material. Also, I really appreciate that he took the time to derive those equations while others just drop the results.

I'm started the Deep Learning course last night and I too think it's really good. After you finished the series of courses, what did you move on to?

fast.ai

As someone that's new to ML but interested in it, do you recommend people skip the original course? Does it cover the same things?

I took it about 6-7 years ago, so I totally believe you