Since you're self taught as well: there's an exceptionally great book (available online for free) Crafting Interpreters. It's entirely project based, but you le

Since you're self taught as well: there's an exceptionally great book (available online for free) Crafting Interpreters. It's entirely project based, but you learn so much from it because it explains the concepts along the way. As for A&D, there are a couple of data structures that are interesting and generally applicable. But I found that there are diminishing returns here. If you know a reasonable set of them, you _can_ stop there and pick up new ones when you actually need them for something.