If you practice coding everyday for 2 years will you get good at coding?

I was sitting around thinking, after having my third full time job offer redacted after my 2 misdemeanors showed up on another background check, that I needed a change of pace. I need to learn a skill. I'm 28 and all I have to show for it is debt, alcoholism, xbox achievements, and a beer belly. So I thought, what's a skill you can practice everyday that has the potential to translate into prestige and money. What's a skill that I would be proud of having and would want to teach my son. What's a skill that I could freelance while I wait for my misdemeanors to fall off of the background checks (in Texas, they supposedly can't look back past 7 years in a background check). I stumbled upon programming.

I decided to go back to university in a full blown attempt to achieve at least a bachelors in computer science. But, as a former student, I know that a certificate doesn't necessarily, if at all, prepare you for a career (albeit HR filters you out for not having it). I have about 2.5 years before I'd achieve said bachelor's. I've been programming everyday with Python for the past 2 weeks and I've been learning a lot. However, I'm very much in the tutorial stage and sometimes I look at some of these coding challenges for fun and I can't even understand the question, forget about imagining a solution. I deeply appreciate the utility of computer programming and the job opportunity, prestige, and money is nothing to turn my nose up to.

I'm wondering, and would definitely like to hear anyone's personal story, is it plausible for someone to code everyday or almost everyday for 2.5 years. Do you think they would be job ready for a programming job?