I wasn't sure if I wanted to learn advanced swift concepts yet or wait a few more months. I found the iOS essential developer program and this is my thoughts after the first week.
Category: Journey
Teach to Learn
In my experience the best way to truly master something is to go and try to teach others what you just learned. It's not going to be easy but it will be selfishly rewarding
5 things I wish I knew when first learning Swift
I often wonder if I could've gotten to where I am in a quicker way and there are things that I wish I knew before I started and this is a list of the 5 that stick out in my mind.
Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 14 & 15
This sprint was titled, Intermediate Swift. That got me thinking so everything we had done for the past 13 weeks was all beginning swift. There is so much to learn about this, yikes!! But it's ok I can get through this. We started off learning about swift generics, luckily I had done some reading and… Continue reading Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 14 & 15
Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 12 & 13
After a very discouraging two weeks, we moved on to learning CoreData. It was very refreshing to learn something new that didn't involve any design. Core Data was in no way easy but it was easier than programmatic UI design, Core graphics and animations. Core Data CoreData to me was like working with databases. I… Continue reading Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 12 & 13
Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 10 & 11
I knew it was bound to happen I just didn't know when it would but I had to hit that learning wall at some point and this was it. I got through it but I struggled.
The iPhone app that Google and I built
My first complete app from concept to finished product all by myself. I struggled, I cried, I laughed, I got super excited and I repeated this several times over and over again, but it was worth it.
Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 9 & 10
After the super challenge that was our first build week, I thought I could use some relaxing studying but it didn't happen these past two weeks. We jumped right into new content. We got to work on iOS Networking Basics. We got started with closures, followed by a new way of using enums and then… Continue reading Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 9 & 10
Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 7 – BUILD WEEK 1
Half of Build Week has gone by and my group and I are pretty close to having a viable MVP product. We can now start adding more features and working on a better UI, UX experience.
Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 5 & 6
I have some advice for those of you that are learning to code. I am doing this through Lambda school but what I have learned can be used for any other bootcamp or if you are learning on your own.
Claudia Maciel 