<ul><li>Have some ideas that will help you get a step further </li><li>Develop a structured schedule</li><li>Have different ideas for the new year</li></ul>

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<p>In order to build something stable and produce real work during the new year, there a certain things that can be done in order to get yourself into shape.</p><ol><li>Add healthy habits within your schedule</li><li>Have at least two workout sessions in the schedule</li><li>Spend some valuable time to learn new things every week. Studies say that if you get 1% better each day, you’ll end up being 365% better in a year!</li></ol>

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            </div><p>Happy New Year everybody! 🎉🎊🥳</p><p>It’s been some time since I’ve written anything on my blog, with so many reasons to be preventing me from doing so. There have been so many changes since my last trip to Portugal and I couldn’t be happier of where I am and the new goals I have for this year!</p><p>Things are going great at the moment and after working some more on the last projects for 2021 I couldn’t hold myself from starting to create my new year resolutions and how I am going to prepare for it. So, new year, new beginnings and of course new goals to be completed! </p><h2>New Year Goals 🎯</h2><p>This year is going to be an interesting one as Uni is finally coming to an end! So, this means that I’m going to take some serious action towards what exactly I’d like to do and how I’m going to continue with freelancing. There’s still time until my graduation in May so things are going to be more clear by the time. </p><p>Working with various languages during those years made me realise my strengths and where exactly I am better and can produce more. So, after doing that things will seriously lead me in learning a new backend language as my main focus for the past year was working with Front-end frameworks and languages such as:</p><OL><LI>Javascript</LI><LI>React</LI><LI>Bootstrap</LI><LI>Tailwind</LI></OL><p>As said, after working more and more with the above front-end libraries-frameworks, there was no other way of achieving the goal of developing more with a backend language, so I chose to make a research of different backend languages that will help me achieve developing a full-stack web application during the year! There were tons of backend languages that I could achieve learning so after making lots and lots of decisions, I managed to make the final one and start with Laravel.</p><figure><img src="https://developerhoster.com/content/images/size/w960/2021/09/banner-2.jpg" alt="Start with laravel 8" width="421" height="298"><figcaption dir="auto">Laravel 8</figcaption></figure><p>Let me just say that, by the time I took the decision of learning Laravel I have worked with it before on a web application we managed to create with my team in order to display an online store management system, which Laravel does so good and in my opinion is built upon such systems and runs pretty good. So, big mistake, I decided to start learning Laravel about at the start of November with occasional learning sessions because I had so much work to do, and I couldn’t create a year schedule and fit learning inside. I had no PHP experience at the time and couldn’t understand some basic features, functions or even what the PHP (-&gt; or =&gt;) were. </p><p>I remember one thing I saw in a tutorial where within a part of code I saw something like this:</p><PRE><code>echo ("My name is " . $name . " and I'm from Greece");</code></PRE><p>and I was sooo confused, what the hell is those things? At that time I was so tired of just staying late hours just to start learning something more, after developing Uni assignments with Java or C++ and at the end of the day I was using PHP. 😅 </p><p>After, getting more and more familiar with the syntax and the way PHP “thinks” I was more able to work with the code and understand specific things.</p><p dir="ltr">Regarding Laravel 8 finally, after working on it for a month and after countless hours in front of a computer screen (what did you have in mind when saying, I need to learn a new backend language 🤨) I managed to develop my first backend application, an actual Instagram Clone, which you can easily find <a href="https://github.com/HarryKing87/instagramClone" dir="ltr">here</a>.</p><h2>Notion Scheduling and Organisation</h2><p>I’ve mentioned like a hundred times in the past how important it is for me to organise my schedule and know during any time in a week how I am going to continue for the day or even the week. So, Notion is the main working tool for me and the main reason I have done those steps forward the past year. </p><p>For the new year I managed to create a system where I can both track my tasks for the day or the week in general and ALSO track my Instagram posts, Youtube followers and many more. So, I took the decision of spending some valuable time alone and organising the schedule as I’ll be going to follow this exact one for a whole year!</p><p>You can have a quick look here in this photo:</p><figure><img src="https://codingharry.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Screenshot-2022-01-12-at-6.50.57-PM-1024x591.png" alt="" width="653" height="376"><figcaption dir="auto">My Notion Template ( &amp; Goals )</figcaption></figure><p>This is my first actual time that I’m creating a so detailed version of what exactly am I going to achieve during the year, because I think that every person that needs to be more productive and actually achieve more, should do something like this.</p><h4>Backend Language Advice and Resources</h4><p>If you’re new to learning backend languages, I can surely recommend starting with PHP as it is the base of most of the Web and you can clarify some simple terms with it. Regarding some resources, I think that they can easily be divided to free and paid, so I made a simple table in order to help you and me as I am also new to the backend environment. Hope I helped!</p><table dir="ltr"><tbody dir="ltr"><tr dir="ltr"><td dir="ltr"><strong dir="ltr">Free</strong></td><td dir="ltr"><strong dir="ltr">Paid</strong></td></tr><tr dir="ltr"><td dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiLqL2526z1AhWGhv0HHV8UAfoQwqsBegQIBRAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOK_JCtrrv-c&amp;usg=AOvVaw1BzGcLdPgMPcbi1FWvlvkV" rel="noreferrer noopener" dir="ltr">freeCodeCamp</a> (For PHP)</td><td dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-php" rel="noreferrer noopener" dir="ltr">codecademy</a> (For PHP)</td></tr><tr dir="ltr"><td dir="ltr"><a href="https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-8-from-scratch" rel="noreferrer noopener" dir="ltr">Laracasts</a> (For Laravel)</td><td dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.udemy.com/course/php-with-laravel-for-beginners-become-a-master-in-laravel/" rel="noreferrer noopener" dir="ltr">Udemy</a> (For Laravel) (No affiliate link, just helpful)</td></tr></tbody></table><h2>Wrapping Up</h2><p>Overall, things are going great at the moment and I aim to produce more and more content this year, while being active on Instagram, Twitter and YouTube for the first time! Surely hoping you can gain some knowledge from the links I showed you above and some advice from the first paragraph, and be able to explore more on the backend side of programming. </p><p>See ya in the next one! 😉</p><img src="https://codingharry.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/139808699_235293834801127_3248251518447445086_n.jpg">

New year and things are going great if we have a good and well structured schedule. Consider doing something more for yourself this year and be more productive!

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<p>Happy New Year everybody! 🎉🎊🥳 </p>

<p>It’s been some time since I’ve written anything on my blog, with so many reasons to be preventing me from doing so. There have been so many changes since my last trip to Portugal and I couldn’t be happier of where I am and the new goals I have for this year! </p>

<p>Things are going great at the moment and after working some more on the last projects for 2021 I couldn’t hold myself from starting to create my new year resolutions and how I am going to prepare for it. So, new year, new beginnings and of course new goals to be completed! </p>

<p>This year is going to be an interesting one as Uni is finally coming to an end! So, this means that I’m going to take some serious action towards what exactly I’d like to do and how I’m going to continue with freelancing. There’s still time until my graduation in May so things are going to be more clear by the time. </p>

<p>Working with various languages during those years made me realise my strengths and where exactly I am better and can produce more. So, after doing that things will seriously lead me in learning a new backend language as my main focus for the past year was working with Front-end frameworks and languages such as: </p>

<ol><li>Javascript </li><li>React </li><li>Bootstrap </li><li>Tailwind </li> </ol>

<p>As said, after working more and more with the above front-end libraries-frameworks, there was no other way of achieving the goal of developing more with a backend language, so I chose to make a research of different backend languages that will help me achieve developing a full-stack web application during the year! There were tons of backend languages that I could achieve learning so after making lots and lots of decisions, I managed to make the final one and start with Laravel. </p>

<p>Let me just say that, by the time I took the decision of learning Laravel I have worked with it before on a web application we managed to create with my team in order to display an online store management system, which Laravel does so good and in my opinion is built upon such systems and runs pretty good. So, big mistake, I decided to start learning Laravel about at the start of November with occasional learning sessions because I had so much work to do, and I couldn’t create a year schedule and fit learning inside. I had no PHP experience at the time and couldn’t understand some basic features, functions or even what the PHP (-> or =>) were. </p>

<p>I remember one thing I saw in a tutorial where within a part of code I saw something like this: </p>

<p>and I was sooo confused, what the hell is those things? At that time I was so tired of just staying late hours just to start learning something more, after developing Uni assignments with Java or C++ and at the end of the day I was using PHP. 😅 </p>

<p>After, getting more and more familiar with the syntax and the way PHP “thinks” I was more able to work with the code and understand specific things. </p>

<p>Regarding Laravel 8 finally, after working on it for a month and after countless hours in front of a computer screen (what did you have in mind when saying, I need to learn a new backend language 🤨) I managed to develop my first backend application, an actual Instagram Clone, which you can easily find <a href="https://github.com/HarryKing87/instagramClone">here </a>. </p>

<p>I’ve mentioned like a hundred times in the past how important it is for me to organise my schedule and know during any time in a week how I am going to continue for the day or even the week. So, Notion is the main working tool for me and the main reason I have done those steps forward the past year. </p>

<p>For the new year I managed to create a system where I can both track my tasks for the day or the week in general and ALSO track my Instagram posts, Youtube followers and many more. So, I took the decision of spending some valuable time alone and organising the schedule as I’ll be going to follow this exact one for a whole year! </p>

<p>You can have a quick look here in this photo: </p>

<p>This is my first actual time that I’m creating a so detailed version of what exactly am I going to achieve during the year, because I think that every person that needs to be more productive and actually achieve more, should do something like this. </p>

<p>If you’re new to learning backend languages, I can surely recommend starting with PHP as it is the base of most of the Web and you can clarify some simple terms with it. Regarding some resources, I think that they can easily be divided to free and paid, so I made a simple table in order to help you and me as I am also new to the backend environment. Hope I helped! </p>

<p>Overall, things are going great at the moment and I aim to produce more and more content this year, while being active on Instagram, Twitter and YouTube for the first time! Surely hoping you can gain some knowledge from the links I showed you above and some advice from the first paragraph, and be able to explore more on the backend side of programming. </p>

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