Make something useful, even if just for you and maybe three friends. Ship that. Sooner. Ship it when it hardly works. Then iterate.
This will teach you all the good bits of "agile", some requirements thinking, pragmatic programming, and (if it's a web thing) some basic "how to maintain an app on a server" skills, all in 1 go. It's also all stuff that is super hard to learn from books or from too-experienced coworkers.
I found that blogging the steps as I do side projects made progress really helped with this - it makes it feel like I'm always completing something. It also allowed me to break a problem down into small steps (what be done in 30 minutes-1 hour before work).
Make something useful, even if just for you and maybe three friends. Ship that. Sooner. Ship it when it hardly works. Then iterate.
This will teach you all the good bits of "agile", some requirements thinking, pragmatic programming, and (if it's a web thing) some basic "how to maintain an app on a server" skills, all in 1 go. It's also all stuff that is super hard to learn from books or from too-experienced coworkers.