I believe the article is primarily talking about single programmer codebases, although team codebases come up at the end. I think everyone would agree that a s

I believe the article is primarily talking about single programmer codebases, although team codebases come up at the end. I think everyone would agree that a second year undergraduate (who had not programmed at all before university) is not generally going to be able to write 60,000 lines of code single-handedly. And certainly not in one term. When comparing experiences, I think it's important to be careful to compare apples to apples.