Read books. I'm a Maths grad now at my first Software Dev job. Yes, I'm a Software Developer not a Coder. You need to learn the basics. Use C/C++, learn why Ja

Read books. I'm a Maths grad now at my first Software Dev job. Yes, I'm a Software Developer not a Coder. You need to learn the basics. Use C/C++, learn why Java is crap and why PHP takes up too much memory. Make sure you get a few Signal 11s and learn what you did wrong. How do you protect yourself from it next time? The particular choice of languages is irrelevant of course. The point is there is a lot more to software development than hacking out code. There are principles of development. There are advantages/disadvantages to each of the tools we use. There are mathematical underpinnings of data structures. A brief understanding of it all is important. A deeper understanding may be required.