Coding. Coding. More Coding. You spend a lot of time working on problems. You learn to generalize. You save and reuse code. You go off and try stuff and mak

Coding. Coding. More Coding. You spend a lot of time working on problems. You learn to generalize. You save and reuse code. You go off and try stuff and make mistakes. You read less tutorials, but you actually try to implement more stuff you read about, instead of reading it. You learn from people. Those who know more, those who know different, those who study CS and those who study art, psychology, gerontology, whatever. You go over what you learn. You teach, you tutor, you explain, you blog, so you get a better grasp on what you know, so you think about and recontextualize what you take for granted, so you can nail down ideas. You go back and look at old code you wrote, and fix it. You read code, yours and others, bad code and good code. You submit a pull request to add a feature to something you use. You stop worrying about being the top whatever, and focus on being better then you used to be.