I haven't taken the course - and I'm hopelessly biased anyway so you shouldn't trust my comments. However a lot of our students have done it. Here's a couple of their comments (search the linked thread if you want more):

- http://forums.fast.ai/t/how-has-your-journey-been-so-far-lea...

- http://forums.fast.ai/t/how-has-your-journey-been-so-far-lea...

Some folks have taken the Udacity flying car and self-driving car courses as well as fast.ai, and had success building on that combination, e.g. http://forums.fast.ai/t/meet-greet-thread-introduce-yourself...