Generally, I agree with bittermang: don't waste your youth on github. Live your youth, it's not "the greatest time of your life" like some people say, but it is

Generally, I agree with bittermang: don't waste your youth on github. Live your youth, it's not "the greatest time of your life" like some people say, but it is a singularly unique time of socially accepted irresponsibility. Work on your social skills, they will pay off down the road a lot more than learning C. Learn to listen, to be kind, work on your empathy. Now, if you must spend your time coding, don't do Upwork, don't do freelance. Instead, solve problems for people who don't realize they had problems to solve. Talk to your friends, parents, grandparents, find out what bugs them in their day to day life. Observe what they do and think of how they could optimize it. Help them by creating tools to solve their problems. That's what programming is - telling computers how to help us solve problems. To code isn't the goal, the solution is. If you figure that out, figure out some skills in that area, you're ahead of 95% of the people coming out of CS schools who still think the point of their 4 years degree is to optimize a sort routine.