What cracks me up is this proclamation made by said author[0]:

  Over the 200 waking hours, I managed to
  hit the standard needed. It felt like
  multiple lucky answers and lots of Googling
  that got me there, but that’s how learning
  works. I learnt enough Javascript to
  get accepted onto the course and I spent
  another 3 months, with 15 others,
  Googling things together and creating
  a new app each week.

  Now I’m being paid to build early
  MVP’s (minimum viable products) for
  start-ups. So I can code.

I mean, really? This certainly cannot be modus operandi for start-ups can it? Three months of "Javascript Googling" allows someone to brag about:

  being paid to build early
  MVP’s (minimum viable products) for
  start-ups.

And leveraging that incredibly weak argument into a summary of:

  So I can code.

Wow. If that's all it takes for someone to be hired into a start-up, then the whole "funding is drying up" meme prevalent recently is really making sense.

0 - http://www.gadgette.com/2016/02/19/how-i-learnt-to-code-in-a...