Although the textbook was optional, it was helpful for me. Easy and fun for students without any coding experience like me.

No need to panic for weekly labs and exams! Just enjoy it.

Overall pretty fun and easy course. Screencasts were great but lectures were often such a waste of time I stopped going second half of the semester. It's taught to an introductory level so coding experience doesn't matter at all.

The best way to learn the material is to play around with different things and get comfortable coding. The rest is just being able to problem solve and think logically under pressure.