Answer 1

Routine for being a good programmer: practise coding frequenly, learn something new all days, read tech blogs, known all the options of your favorite language, examine other's codes, learn algorithms, data structures, design patterns. And practise all that coding it.

Hireable candidate: Being expert in some language/platform on demand.

Answer 2

Html challenges. Just kidding. Do your own mini projects and practice I guess.

Answer 3

The only and best Routine for becoming a good Programmer is to follow the quotes "Practice makes a man perfect ". We know that programming is something like Mathematics which requires alot of Practice and working on Live projects. We should work as much as we can on Live projects which will give an experience for working on a Projects which will develop our skills . Before all that if You are a fresher then you should build a good foundation for the Course and learn it practically.
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