I mostly lived off of cornflakes, coconut water, occasional fruits and a weekly chicken binge (or other food from a Chinese butcher shop) when I was becoming a

I mostly lived off of cornflakes, coconut water, occasional fruits and a weekly chicken binge (or other food from a Chinese butcher shop) when I was becoming a programmer. It took very little time and cost less than a third of what Soylent does. I used a book called Learn to program, by Chris Pine. There's a free version online. After that, I did some stuff on code school.