I like the course so far but I think you move a bit too quickly sometimes. For instance when removing the material from the torus, you say you "move to the materials panel and remove the existing material". I am very much a beginner and haven't worked with materials at all yet so it was hard to keep up, trying to watch the video while doing things myself at the same time. Sometimes you say what to do without actually saying how to do it. Maybe pause a bit in-between steps so us newbies can look back and forth between the video and our own blender window.
I'm sure some of this is just part of me being unfamiliar with Blenders interface though. I will keep on learning. :) Playing with lighting has been really cool.