The book is terrific, and wonderful that it is available under a CC license. Most students found it accessible. We covered about Chapters 1-8 (and some things not in the book). (This is only the first part of the book, so a much slower pace than the MIT course. Some of this is to have more time for additional background and to go in depth in things, but also that our courses are scheduled with about 2/3 the amount of time per class as an MIT course is.
The book is terrific, and wonderful that it is available under a CC license. Most students found it accessible. We covered about Chapters 1-8 (and some things not in the book). (This is only the first part of the book, so a much slower pace than the MIT course. Some of this is to have more time for additional background and to go in depth in things, but also that our courses are scheduled with about 2/3 the amount of time per class as an MIT course is.