I haven't taken the course, but I did help write it, so... :)
As much as I hate to talk anyone out of taking our training, it doesn't sound like this is the right course for you. It follows on from MATLAB Fundamentals and is designed for the average MATLAB user who is now dealing with more complex code, having to worry about efficiency, organization, memory usage, maintenance, etc. In other words, someone who is doing some amount of software development in MATLAB but doesn't have a software development background. ("Software Carpentry in MATLAB" might be a good alternative name for the course.)
If you already know about defensive programming ( nargin, is*, varargin, etc), unit testing, different types of functions (nested functions, local functions, function handles, etc), choosing data types, managing memory (preallocation, copy-on-write), and so on, this course won't add much to your knowledge.
We don't teach any general software development principles -- we always focus just on using our tools for a specific purpose (in this case, better and more manageable MATLAB applications).
Hope that helps.
