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Hi Balaji. I plan to build a website as a part of your class. Since I am not very tech savvy (basic knowledge of html, css, and python), will you still recommend taking your course?

Hi Smirnoff: try out the first few lectures and see if it fits your background. The key is how quickly you can pick up the web programming stuff.

Great. I will give it a try!

I'm wondering if the focus will be much on emacs only or editor agnostic?

We'll go pretty deep on emacs, especially for REPL integration and debugging. My reasoning is that most people never get a course on an editor. But people who already use vim, Textmate, or something else can just ignore those parts and use what they are comfortable with. With 100,000+ students everyone will have some part of the course that they already know cold.

Will it be a video class on Coursera? Live? Time?