You can be up and running in just a few days to weeks if you just start doing it on your own. You dont need to go to school. There are some fundamentals of comp

You can be up and running in just a few days to weeks if you just start doing it on your own. You dont need to go to school. There are some fundamentals of computer science that would definitely be useful like basic algorithms and data structures that may take longer to learn but are still doable. Taking a single language course at a community college might not be a bad way to start though.