I’ll be real- I learned by making BAD stories. Like I’m not kidding. I never published the first story I worked on, but it did teach me the basics of coding. Then I did the first three chapters of my ongoing story, and they were okay. Then I did a short contest story, and really focused on making the directing really good. And now I’m revamping those three chapters and released chapters that I’m proud of 
I personally think you only learn from doing and that the first things you code probably won’t be good but it’ll be progess.
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