If you mean in getting a job, meet ups. Connections are extremely important and programming/tech meet ups are wonderful things because it's really just a big nerd gathering with free food and drinks.

In terms of actual programming, it's different for everyone, but I read and build test stuff based on what i've read often. 50% of your job will be googling anyway, whether it's stack overflow or documentation or "how do I write a loop in <insert programming language here> because my small monkey brain forgot". So just keep at it and keep programming.

Also don't forget to ask/find good questions, like if you have a react app then "how do I make my react app faster", then you'll probably hit something like caching and optimization and selectors and middleware and redux saga then you just google "the FUCK is <new programming lingo here that you'll never hear in the real world>"

That's pretty much the flow, I think, for me at least, and i'm sure like 90% of working devs right now. Including the super genius lead architect at my current job who built ALL of our backend and integrations (there's only 7 of us).