How do you practice coding?

Question

The thing about going into a physical school is having time-sensitive assignments, I have found I’m not learning nearly as well as I could be without any end goals... So I wanted to know how you guys come up with yours or where did you find your end goals?

Answer 1

Aside from learning code in personal time, I usually browse the challenges area on SoloLearn to see which interests me, or rather what I can do.
At the beginning, I scoffed at all thinking "I don't know how to create that program and probably won't need to. But as I learnt more I became curious as to if I can make it possible.
If you don't know already, SoloLearn provides a CodePlayground, so you can use that to test out what you learn here.
Browsing the questions section also helps, since you see what others have troubles with, and either learn by helping them and testing yourself, or learning if you too needed to know how to do the particular problem.

In general, just test what you learn and try new things.

Answer 2

Test new coding things in code from what I read, and learn on Sololearn!