The speaker's class is intended for students with prior computer science preparation, not beginner programmers, and does not replace traditional computer science; many such courses are prerequisites.

“And so the nature of my class is it's not intended for the, like, beginner programmer. It is not a, it is not a replacement for, like, traditional computer science in the sense of, like, algorithms and if-- in fact, a lot of those classes are prereqs to what I'm, what I'm doing here.”