After learning a language enough to have an intermediate understanding of how it works, both conceptually and syntactically, I'd argue you learn more reading ot

After learning a language enough to have an intermediate understanding of how it works, both conceptually and syntactically, I'd argue you learn more reading other people's code than you do writing your own. The way I like to do this is to think through how I would implement something. Then, reference code that does something similar to the problem I was trying to solve. Then, I compare their solution to mine.