I remember how I learned C programming. It was a summer class .. first week, the prof said read the first half of King's C programming book. The second week, he

I remember how I learned C programming. It was a summer class .. first week, the prof said read the first half of King's C programming book. The second week, he said read the other half now. It was pretty awesome. We did have a 1 year foundation in a toy programming language (called Turing) at that point. C is a small language and this was possible to do. More modern languages seem so bloated that this is not possible anymore I think (with the exception of Go). So yeah ... you can learn to code reasonably well in 4 dedicated months. But be clear about your goals. If you want to learn web dev, you might want to learn Javascript but that is a larger language than say Go. Python is another great choice ... easy to get into and quite deep.