Hi Paul @Skulture ,
There is no newer version of this course, but all the modeling techniques you’ll learn apply to almost any Blender version (and a lot probably to any 3D modeling software).
It is easiest for you to use the Blender Version used in Courses; so that is 2.79 in this case. It just removes an extra hurdle when learning 3D.
If you insist on using 4.0, you might find the Search very helpful (I believe it is F3 by default).
You can change hotkeys in your Edit > Preferences and you can even use the 2.79 hotkeys if you want:
