What cracks me up is this proclamation made by said author[0]:<p><pre><code>  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.
</code></pre>
I mean, really?  This certainly cannot be modus operandi for start-ups can it?  Three months of &quot;Javascript Googling&quot; allows someone to brag about:<p><pre><code>  being paid to build early
  MVP’s (minimum viable products) for
  start-ups.
</code></pre>
And leveraging that incredibly weak argument into a summary of:<p><pre><code>  So I can code.
</code></pre>
Wow.  If that&#x27;s all it takes for someone to be hired into a start-up, then the whole &quot;funding is drying up&quot; meme prevalent recently is <i>really</i> making sense.<p>0 - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gadgette.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;19&#x2F;how-i-learnt-to-code-in-a-scarily-short-space-of-time&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gadgette.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;19&#x2F;how-i-learnt-to-code-in-a...</a>