I'm not sure I understand how opening up classes to the online world would would affect the coursework of Stanford students. If the author felt that CS229a was

I'm not sure I understand how opening up classes to the online world would would affect the coursework of Stanford students. If the author felt that CS229a was not rigorous enough, he should have just taken CS229 whose problem sets could double as full-time jobs. Morever, a good chunk of stanford CS classes are already offered online through SCPD (the professional development system) and as far as I know, the structure of those classes remain unchanged.