In my own experience, bootcamps or other made up stages are about to fail because of the fact they have prerequisites that are not shown. For your friend (and

In my own experience, bootcamps or other made up stages are about to fail because of the fact they have prerequisites that are not shown. For your friend (and you), I will recommend to start with basic knowledge. What is Boole's logic? What is a microship? How to control a microship. An example will be : http://www.nand2tetris.org/ http://www.nand2tetris.org/ Begin with a (only one) project will fall in some pitfalls: - do not cover basic principles - assume to know a framework, or to use bad practices - do not teach programming, but a language for only one purpose (sorry for my bad english)