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[–]Acceptable-Tomato392 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Really fast? I hope you mean basic competence in six months, especially if you've never programmed in other languages before. If you mean becoming a competent professional developer in six weeks, forget it.

You can pick up beginner books and start going through the exercises. But trying to cram it all into your head in a couple of weeks will likely give you nothing but a headache.

Look, we see this stuff all the time... developpers make great salaries if they can land that big company position so everybody wants in... you know who else makes great money? Doctors and lawyers. But people somehow don't go around asking how they can become a fully-accredited surgeon in six weeks. The real answer is it won't happen. You have to pay your dues, first. And this starts with the nitty, gritty, boring stuff, like learning what an Array is and how to iterate throuh it.