My comment was in regards to a young daughter asking how she could break into the start-up world. The author suggested that coding was a good idea.
The author went on to mention that learning in the span of a summer would help pick a good team member or even build a prototpe him/herself.
We know from both studies and personal experience, that tech interviews just don't work all that well. This is tech interviews done by professional programmers and managers. We don't know how to pick people who are good vs talk like they're good!
This is not anecdotal - it is well known via studies, done by top psychologists.
Given that - how would a summer coding bootcamp help pick a co-founder? It's certainly better than nothing. It is also not clear how much one would benefit from 3 months versus taking one of the many excellent online courses and working at your own pace, such as Harvard's CS50, freely available on youtube.
Regarding building your own prototype after 3 months of programming - I just want to throw my hands up in the air of this wishful thinking that 3 months is anywhere close to enough time. You will need someone who's tech savvy, and then you're right back to the same difficulties.
