[AstralStorm]

Worst case it's a year of a crash course to learn almost anything in enough depth to be proficient, even if not quite an expert. With the base in programming or electronics, it would take even shorter time with a well designed course.

[randomdata]

What would justify a year long crash course, assuming you have a functioning memory? I still cannot think of anything that has actually changed, in a fundamental way, over the last 15 years.