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Do it as much as possible, then do it more. The example I always give people are two semi-famous video game coders: Tom Hall and Scott Cawthan.

Tom Hall worked on a lot of ID software stuff like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, etc. However, he made a TON of stuff before he even got considered for bigger projects. He even lists a lot of them on his site:

https://tomtomtom.wordpress.com/toms-games/

Just for reference, he worked on about 50 games before Commander Keen, which was probably the first one he saw any real money from.

Scott Cawthon is known for Five Nights at Freddy's, but he also worked on and released a ton of stuff before Five Nights at Freddy's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Cawthon#Gameography

I could probably list a ton more examples, but these are the two that actually put out there most or all of their projects. Granted, I work in the professional "office" type environment (and I don't program so much as design larger projects), but even I can say that I have worked on hundreds of projects, and written tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of lines of code, and I am still not at the place where I can become an "architect" (someone who designs and builds a large software system from scratch).
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