As an investment banking analyst who was learning to code "on the side" for 6+ months and then finally decided to quit my job and learn to code full time in January, I can't agree more with this article. Learning to code part time doesn't work. You need motivation, and you need to dive into coding head first. Zach Shapiro has some great tips related to learning to program similar to this article:

1. Nights, weekends are bad 2. Forget codecademy 3. Have a real project you want to build

Check out the full article here: http://blog.zackshapiro.com/want-to-learn-to-code-start-here...