Books or Courses for a complete beginner?

My brother knows nothing about programming but wants to go in Machine Learning field, I asked him to complete Python with a few GOOD projects. After that I am in confusion:

Ask him to read several books and understand ML.

Buy him some kind of ML Course (Andrew one’s).

The problem is: – Books might feel overwhelming at first even if it’s for complete beginner (I don’t know about beginner books tbh)

Courses might not go in depth about some topics.

I am thinking to make him enroll in some kind of video lecture for familiarity and then ask him to read books for better in depth knowledge or vice versa maybe.