Saw this link on Stack Overflow the other day and have been watching attentively. Great videos - I found the presentation of the PyObject particularly helpful (lecture 4). I'd be overjoyed if there was an extension to the course in future!
Unfortunately, as part of the application you are compelled to sign forms promising that you won't make "significant" parts of the zone file publicly available in any way (at least this was my experience when applying to Verisign for .com and .net zone file access).