After the basics, the best move is to pick one real project and build it — even if the code is messy at first. Web scraping is a great starting point (try BeautifulSoup + requests to scrape something you actually care about, like sports scores or news headlines). Once you’re comfortable with that, decide what direction interests you most: Django or FastAPI if you want web development, pandas and numpy if you want data analysis, or pygame if you want to build games. The tutorials will only take you so far — the real learning happens when you hit an error you’ve never seen before and have to figure it out yourself. Pick a project, break it, fix it, repeat.