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The best way is to complete as many projects as you can and read as much code as you can. You'll want to take a deliberate learning approach.

Check out out "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning" by Andy Hunt. It will show you how to build a skill investment portfolio.

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Cool, thanks - "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning" looks very interesting, is it a well-known thing?

Any ideas for a first project that'll get the wheels turning?

best way to start is to scratch your own itches, if you pick some arbitrary problem it's much more difficult to maintain steam and actually complete the project (ie learn the skills you want to)

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