Dynamic Programming nowadays is out of date. Do not spend too much time on that since VFI (value function iteration) suffers the curse of Dimensionality. In your paper, it must bind if you use VFI. Of course, you need know a little bit about this. Put more time on the modern method to solve the model, such as the perturbation method or projection method.
Do not spend too much time on the book: The ABCs of RBCs. It is good but it is limited. The methods in the book are classical and in most cases, can not be brought into your paper. Spending some time on Dynare and try hard to make it not a black box to you. Most of computational and estimation literature are implemented in Dynare.
To my experience, as Macro major, Econometrics seems not so important. But you need know the basics. Most time, you deal with some simple time series data which can be easily dealt in Eviews.