Yes, that's exactly my point. You can get a simple introduction to CS in six months, especially if you already know how to program. No, you're not going to be

Yes, that's exactly my point. You can get a simple introduction to CS in six months, especially if you already know how to program. No, you're not going to be publishing papers or talking through OS implementation details with CMU grads or designing computer vision systems with Berkeley grads. But you'll have the baseline knowledge that agumonkey is referring to in their comment.