Well, no, but it's roughly the same amount of time you'll spend on learning programming in a CS degree. And you're not going to be able to pass it because you

Well, no, but it's roughly the same amount of time you'll spend on learning programming in a CS degree. And you're not going to be able to pass it because you can pontificate at length about compiler design or explain what a linked list is, but flunked the practicals because none of your code even compiled. One guy I worked with a long time ago that we hired would give us all these huge lectures about the right DB design and when to use structs or classes. Had an opinion on the right way to do everything. But he didn't seem to be clearing many bugs, and then our company fired him after 3 months when they realized in his main project to get our dropbox-esque system talking with Word he'd written a whole 10 lines of code. Could talk the talk, but couldn't walk the walk.