I recommend participating, daily, in communities, particularly ##programming or #python (if that's the language you're learning) on Freenode. It's less that yo

I recommend participating, daily, in communities, particularly ##programming or #python (if that's the language you're learning) on Freenode. It's less that you'll learn best practices, but you will expose yourself to the zeitgeist, which I feel is important to being a good dev. Again, not to blindly follow it or even agree with it, but to understand it and why it's pushing in one direction or another.