What to write to train and develop in-demand programming skills?

Question

IT education

be it web or desktop. php python C++ Java C# ,...
I graduated from an average university, probably below a junior level.
No work is expected in the near future.
Those. at the moment I am at zero point.
On what tasks/projects should I train in order not to lose and improve my skills? Raise the level and calmly go to My circle or freelance.
Suppose I am not given patterns in an abstract, academic way - but how can I work them out?
Without patterns, as I understand it, it is difficult to master any framework.
Just like reading mana.
Etc. along the chain.
Universities teach basic skills on labs and naive coursers. On freelance exchanges, tasks are mostly improvements, while remote work (My circle) is, on the contrary, bare requirements.
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It can be reformulated as follows:
on what project / task did you really master, work out some stupid technology / framework / pattern / tool (before that, floating in this issue)?
But not in the sense that sites are written in Django, and applications are written in Qt.
There are, it seems, such books where, step by step, going through all the technologies, an application is created. I don't know how effective it is - can anyone suggest a good one?

Answer 1

Write simplified clones of services that you yourself constantly use if you don’t have your own ideas, some kind of chat, a questionnaire like a toaster, a store with a catalog and a basket, a social network, almost any similar service uses many basic things, authorization, rest api, work with bd and so on

Answer 2

Train yourself, i.e. try to write your codes on a computer, put on a hosting
Look at the Howdy Ho channel, everything is about programming there In
short, to train, you need to constantly consolidate your skills, i.e. every week at least write code, or watch lessons, the best method for me is to watch how someone does or writes a complex project, because there you will refresh your memory, but again, it's better to write codes yourself to try, I've been writing from scratch for a month, and still nothing I won’t finish writing, but before that I didn’t write anything for three months, I forgot everything, I started coding, I remembered everything again

Answer 3

Write software for yourself, friends of relatives, people have a lot of unsolved problems, and writing really necessary software is always cool