Hello. Yeah no that’s exactly it, it’s not a beginner tutorial, it’s more like a soft tech demo of what Blender can achieve. This course is more of the almost intermediate type. If you want to learn from the beginning, there’s the Blender Basic’s course here:
https://cgcookie.com/courses/blender-basics-an-introduction-to-blender-4-x
And then you can jump to the CORE fundamentals here:
https://cgcookie.com/p/core