This is the entire problem with the current developer landscape. Information overload. There are many places to learn, but very few explain the reasons we need to do things a certain way. Not a lot of emphasis on application planning, how to properly research what functions, methods or patterns to build up the codebase you need to use in order to implement features.

When you look at the difference between basic and fundamental programming language courses versus real world usage. There is a huge difference between ‘Hello World’, the popular ‘Foo = Bar’ and an actual Social Media based application.

As you stated very well, it’s combining all of the basic and fundamental knowledge of various tools to create something useful is the most difficult part.