Thanks to everyone for your great comments, and for enrolling in the course. I have been looking to learn something like this from a long time, but lacked the community to be able to learn with peers.

That, and a desire to make a little contribution to the state of learning & education prompted me to create diycomputerscience.com

There were over a 100 registrations in the past day.

Thanks to everyone... you guys really made my day !