IME to learn to program… you have to do programming.
That’s really it, you have to write code, and actively practicing the skills, do the repetitions (declaring functions, loops, branches) and build up the memory and mindset.

Reading other peoples’ code is also useful, so is theory (DS&A), but the doing is the learning.

Once you’ve had to copy or look up documentation on how to declare a function/method for the nth time, it’ll start sticking in your head.

As someone in a community impacted by the deluge of AI slop projects…good. These are good policies, the overwhelming amount of crap being churned out makes sifting through it as a human, untenable; the only sane solution is to restrict it and ban the peddlers.