I've seen some people posting helpful links around, so I thought I'd share three that I found especially useful.
DISCLAIMER: These do contain actual SVM code, though none actually contain answers specific to this course. Use at your own discretion.
http://www.mblondel.org/journal/2010...nes-in-python/
http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.867/w.../Qp-cvxopt.pdf
https://github.com/burakbayramli/cla...svm/svm-en.pdf
Installing cvxopt on windows can be a pain, so here's a list to an installer that someone put together. Note: I am in no way endorsing this, use at your own risk, etc. etc.
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#cvxopt
Hope it helps!