Hello,
I’m applying to fortran-lang this year. As you noted, I don’t have experience with Fortran. Although I do have experience with C++ and compilers (Clang/LLVM and GCC) and I took college courses with Yacc/Bison so I hope I’m atleast halfway there.
I think the course would be useful.
My intro thread: GSoC 2021: Introduction - Ashutosh Pandey