How can I quickly improve my programming skills?

Try to enhance the code you create doing many versions of it. Try to express yourself better, think about other methods to implement something.
- When you can't discover a better way to do it ask someone for a critique.
- Understand more advanced language functions and development paradigms.
- Understand new 'languages' that do factors in a different way just to understand to think in a different way.
- Learn collections of libraries, tutorials and frameworks to be proficient in them. This creates you much quicker.