How long did it take you to learn programming enough to be able to do something?

Basically, what time did it take you to learn programming to a level where you could say that you could independently do a task of your liking, given that it's not overly complicated.

It could be web scraping, data ordering, a simple bot or something. Let's hear it.

I'm still a fairly new Python programmer, but to give a timeline:

* About a month to learn the basics: syntax, formats, and being able to build simple programs / solve simple programming problems.
* Another month to learn how to make data dashboards extract / transform / load data.
* Another to be able to scrape data and create dashboards around it.

Since then, I've been playing around with different formats, doing coding challenges, practicing and just generally having fun with it. I still have a VERY long way to go and am in no way qualified to get a real programming job, but I've been able to build some fairly interesting software, and project manage some other software that I wasn't capable of coding myself.

It's the best thing I've done for my own career / job / life enrichment.

You could probably need a week to create some file/text manipulation program, if you're already well versed in computers and understand what terminal is.

The real deal starts when it comes to connecting with other tools: API, HTTP requests, authorization etc. I'd say it takes 2 months of full-time work to more or less understand how all of it works and how to apply this knowledge to your programs.