To be fair, my diatribe is not geared at self-taught programmers. I have a lot of admiration for the people who learn programming that way, and I personally con

To be fair, my diatribe is not geared at self-taught programmers. I have a lot of admiration for the people who learn programming that way, and I personally consider that most of the (theoretical, formal, CS) knowledge I got came from self-teaching, picking up a book and personal experimentation despite having earned a Masters in Engineering that taught me more about corporate bullshit like "Project Management" or "Work Ethics" than it did on programming - The sad state of engineering schools in France, a whole different subject. What I'm merely pointing out is the ridiculously short amount of time the article is promising its readers. 3 months? Really? I have been programming for a while now, borderline obsessing about it for the past 2 years and a half, and frankly, I feel like I still know so little. When yet another blogger tells her cool marketing friends that they too can learn to code with such few efforts, it makes me chuckle. And cry a little.