He can read through the code, but he can not articulate it well. There were many times when I stopped to correct him so he knew. I think his biggest issue is that he doesn't understand the level of effort in writing a full scale application like this.

He sees the idea is almost there and has already moved on to thinking of other ideas. I suppose this is why they rarely succeed. The lack of technical understand blinds them as to what really needs to be done.