> you cannot pick this up in any meaningful way in a "few months" of after hours/weekend study You can't pick up coding like this either. See Peter Norvig's fa

> you cannot pick this up in any meaningful way in a "few months" of after hours/weekend study You can't pick up coding like this either. See Peter Norvig's famous "Teach yourself programming in 10 years" article. The delta in the wisdom you obtain, between a few side projects over months and battle hardened experience with real products and code bases over years, is immense.