As long as you work on things that interests you, then just keep working at it. When I was in middle/high school, building forum communities from PHP and MySQL

As long as you work on things that interests you, then just keep working at it. When I was in middle/high school, building forum communities from PHP and MySQL were all the rage. So I attempted to create my own community by buying a Linux server, installing PHP and MySQL, and installing the appropriate forum software. Then I proceeded to add mods to it and write my own mods. It was a fun project to learn Linux and PHP on. The best part was that most mods were 'modular' which made them easy to install and dissect the code of.