I did it in about a year, after pairing with a senior developer (not so much "pairing" as "I asked him to write code, and he did, but he was slow and I'm impati

I did it in about a year, after pairing with a senior developer (not so much "pairing" as "I asked him to write code, and he did, but he was slow and I'm impatient") My best advice: Dedicate yourself to a specific project, like a website or video game, then learn how to make that specific thing happen. Watching lectures or reading abstract materials on programming never came close to having an impact on my abilities, compared to me actually building a thing.