How long can an average person takes to learn programming and write a good program

Question

I am 30 years old I didn't go to tertiary, The only certificate i have is COMPTIA A+, I started learning
java here at sololearn last year October, i am also reading books about programming but still I haven't written any program. I want to know if it is normal to be on this stage or maybe im not gonna make it here in programming.

Answer 1

keep learn and train yourself, reading book isnt enough, you need to do the real code. then, in couple of weeks, you will trained to write a good program. for the first time. it will be hard. but, if you never give up and improve your code.

Answer 2

just try yo code, no matter if it doesn't work at first. Try to make It work is a very interesting learning process

Answer 3

write a program. Here is the first program I wrote in Java.. check it out. I also included a folder with early iterations of it so you can see how it progressed as I added features. Try to replicate it. if you can, then you can do more than you realize. the features in it can be used to do LOTS of stuff with a little imagination http://leakyegg.website.tk/RGB.zip

Answer 4

Hard question, I think it takes at least a yeae if you're a beginner

Answer 5

code and continue reading in parallel. without pratice you will never become a good programmer.
in general you will never stop learning how to code. there is always something new - either a new release of your favorite language (C++11/14/17) or new languages (C#) or new concepts/patterns like async&await.

but even then it's not guaranteed. some people will never write good and maintable code.
you will also need at least a certain amount of logical thinking