I don't know how one can study leetcode and fail to learn to program better. LC can help you program "better" -- but in a narrow, "just tell me what I need to

I don't know how one can study leetcode and fail to learn to program better. LC can help you program "better" -- but in a narrow, "just tell me what I need to know to pass the friggen' test" sense. To learn how to really program better - you'll have to start building things. And reading books. Meaning, you know, "hard" books. Not books about how to get past the LC barrier. And these things known as "papers", and man pages, and specifications, and the raw source code as written by people much, much better than you (even though 99.99 percent of it has nothing to do with LC problems). And by getting down there, in the trenches, and working with people who are plainly better than you are, and who you can almost barely keep up with. That's how you get to be better. Not by ... studying to pass the test.