Submitting Assignment on Coursera ML in Octave

Question

Programming assignment Week 3, Machine Learning, Andrew-ng, Coursera
System: Ubuntu 16.04
Octave 4.0.0

Problem: Cannot submit the code to the server. This code was successfully submitted from Windows env.

octave:1> submit == Submitting solutions | Logistic Regression... Login (email address): ************* Token: ************   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed 100   983  100    25  100   958     11    436  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:--   437 error: structure has no member 'message' error: called from     submitWithConfiguration at line 35 column 5     submit at line 40 column 3 error: evaluating argument list element number 2 error: called from     submitWithConfiguration at line 35 column 5     submit at line 40 column 3 

Answer 1

Octave 4.0.0 doesn't work well with submit scripts (on Ubuntu).

Check the version on your terminal:

octave --version 

if it's 4.0.0 update it.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:octave/stable  sudo apt update  sudo apt-get install octave 

There is also warning in the discussions.