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Without becoming a software engineer? None. Work for 1 hour a month in the developed world to make enough money to pay for, say, a month on https://wpengine.com/, and get to working on the actual website, not its infra.

Even Python will take someone starting from zero anywhere between 10-100 hours to fully grok. A phenomenal time investment if you have any professional interest at all in computers, but if you truly don't, a ridiculous one.

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100 hours to grok Python from zero as an upper bound? You must to be a rockstar.

It might be possible to become comfortable with Python language within 100 hours. But I can't see how anybody could come up to speed with even the essential set of "batteries" without prior web standards, etc knowledge.

It helps if you have other languages learned before learning Python.

Ah, but no, I really was assuming we are starting from scratch.

i.e. in professional capacity. Hence the criteria of "# of jobs" does not apply.

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