[mouse_]

If you don't like gamification, the standard way is reading books and documentation, solving their practice problems, and taking notes on their solutions. Apply them to different scenarios. There is no easy way out, just gotta get cracking.

[josephrmartinez]

Not looking for an easy way out, ha! More curious about ways to actually be more diligent with the practice so that I am actually learning and retaining the knowledge. Curious about what other people have done to take learning into their own hands. Making the problems into Anki cards seems like one approach. I appreciate the note in the other comment though that writing the problems out by hand is possibly more reflective of how you may encounter the problem in an interview setting. Getting too comfortable with my IDE could be a detriment....