[anogrebattle]

Totally possible! I went from zero to being employed as a web developer in about 6 months (no bootcamp). Over those six months, all I did was code.

Wake up - read about code. At work - find good excuses to do my job with code. Come home from work - code. After dinner - code. Before bed - code.

And so on. I also got lucky because I found a couple engineers at my company who were willing to mentor my early projects. What kept me going was finding projects I thought were interesting and challenging and learning everything I could to solve them.

As a lot of commenters have said, we're all learning all the time. The learning never ends! There's never a better time to start than now!

[alecmg]

You touched on an important point, mentors.

Someone who can spend 10-30 minutes per day with you, going over what you coded and giving tips and best practises saves A LOT of time.