No prior programming or domain knowledge? Absolutely not. Even good programmers take months to become productive in my team due to how obscure the knowledge tha

No prior programming or domain knowledge? Absolutely not. Even good programmers take months to become productive in my team due to how obscure the knowledge that is required. You have to lean piles of stuff you would otherwise not have learned, on top of what a programmer in our "general area of knowledge" is expected to have.