This is a noble effort but your post is missing one key answer: is this person motivated enough to do it? Or just needs some money right now and maybe for the n

This is a noble effort but your post is missing one key answer: is this person motivated enough to do it? Or just needs some money right now and maybe for the next month or two? Coding is hard, and takes a lot of hours (like, a thousand or two) to get to basic proficiency. So yeah, you need a lot of will power and motivation to get it done. Especially outside formal setting like university, where you are pretty much forced to do it. I know plenty of smart people who have uninspiring jobs with low salaries, and they keep talking how they will learn to code, but they don't manage to go past hello world.