Hello ,

Yes, you can make your career in IT industry even if you belong to arts background,

what matters is do you have enough skills to survive in the IT Industry.

Your effort to learn coding will definately pay off to you.You can gain those skills 

which are neceessary to survive in IT Industry like-

• Teamwork
• Communication
• Problem Solving Skills
• Leadership
• Time management
• Adaptability

As you have mentioned that you are giving efforts to learn programming,and in IT Industry Programmers /Coders are one of the  

highest demand jobs in present day.

Thank You.

Hope It was helpful.