Your article is great and encouraging, but 180 days is super-strenuous and I truly believe unrealistic. If you have any job and responsibilities and even a modicum of a life, there is no way you’re going to do this in 180 days. None.
OK, I already have a profession with responsibilities. I have a real job and I’m not looking for work. I have family, and a tiny little social life. Your readers may not have any of those, but if they’re normal, they’re likely to have some employment, a better social life than me, perhaps significant others, families, a modicum of community engagement, and children.
I had some experience coding and had worked for a large multinational corporation solving problems using my knowledge of Microsoft Visual Basic. I’d used PASCAL from the 70s and BASIC from the 80s. I worked a lot with MSVB in early 2000s. Since then I had also taken a Full Stack course on Treehouse, so I wasn’t a complete newbie when I decided to pursue Free Code Camp’s 100 Days of Code.
If your reader could dedicate herself to four hours a day that’s already quite a lot and very difficult to do. I doubt very much that anybody can do your recommended curriculum in 180 days on a 4 hour a day commitment. Even planning to do this in a year is no cake walk.
Imagine yourself in college taking a semester course with two hour classes every day of the week. That doesn’t happen. You’d be more likely taking one hour classes three days a week. Three hours a week in a half year (a 15 week semester) class might come to 45 class hours in about four months; a full year, 90 class hours or about eight months. Trying to cram more than that of information is brain overload. College educators know that. A sensible plan is to do this in about a year.
