9 ways to improve your programming skills.

1. Learn a new programming language.
2. Read a good, challenging programming book.
Like: The Art of Computer Programming
Structure and interpretation of computer Programs.
A Discipline of Programming
3. Join an Open Source Project.
You Can join: GitHub, SourceForge,gitorius, bitBucket, Ohloh
4. Solve Programming puzzles.
5. Program Start writing a program. scratch. design all of the architechture and implement.
6. Read And Study Code.
7. Hang Out as programming sites and read blogs.
8. Write about coding.
9. learn low level programming like C, Assembly language.