Programming is an art, as well as a science, as well as engineering. It requires time, to digest, to understand, to gain experience, as any apprenticeship. Just as there are no short cuts to mathematics, there are not short cuts to programming.
The following article makes this and other points.
Learn to code. Get a job. Then what?Dozens of coding “boot camps” have popped up from New York and San Francisco to Omaha and Albuquerque in the past two years. Driven by a robust hiring market for people fluent in programming languages such as Python and Ruby on Rails, these programs have fueled hopes—and demand—among underemployed 20-somethings and others looking for a sure-thing career.