The path of learning; where next

Just a broad question.
I'm slowly making my way through Head First Java (Sierra, Bates). Good book for fundamentals.
I've also read a majority of Thinking in Java (Bruce Eckel). Yes, its all self-study with no formal classes.
So where do I go next. So I have two books read... no big deal and that doesn't make anybody a programmer nor software expert.
What's the most effective next step? Do I get on a dev team for a small project? Do I just code small projects on my own? I'm trying to avoid wasting time doing something when someone else found that they learned much faster doing something else.
Can someone keep me on a productive track? I'm willing to put in blood and sweat, but don't want to waste any either.
Thanks for any help.

I have on a couple occasions. There's one problem
that I see. I don't usually know the answer right
away. So I go research and read up on what the issue
was be it an API issue, bad output issue etc. The
issue comes in when some of the hotdogs that REALLY
know Java and spend a lot of time here blast out an
answer in 5 minutes. So I essentially check my answer
against what they post. Sometimes I'm right,
sometimes wrong.Same thing happens to me all the time, there's many times I can answer a question after working with it for a little while. But by the time I have the question has been answered many times by those more knowledgeable than myself. But I still enjoy working out some of the problems and feel that it helps me learn some new things and review some things I may have previously learned but haven't used since. I would suggest trying to solve as many of the questions that come up here as possible even if you don't do it as quick as others here, it still worthwhile.
Definately come up with a program like the one you mentioned and do it from start to finish. My first one while self-learning was a simple program to compute a golf handicap. Seemed easy enough, enter some numbers, do a calculation and so on, but by the time I was finished (doing the GUI and all) I had learned things out that I would have never considered.
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