Anyone Can Learn to Develop!
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Claims practical learnability: learns Swift through hacking with swift from Paul Hudson, tutorials from Ray wenderlick, Stack Overflow and Apple's developer documentation, practices daily with challenges on eat a bit. Builds a real app, Crypter, a password manager with on‑device/localized encryption, ships to the App Store and adds Mac support. Describes a two‑week focused relearn, iterative goal‑oriented workflow, lots of note taking, and asking for help when stuck.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Myth of self-taught development
- 2:29Learning to develop is hard
- 3:53First failed attempt
- 5:38Second attempt structured
- 7:23Notes and repetition
- 9:09First app from scratch
- 10:32Goal-oriented learning
- 12:16Asking for help
- 14:45Closing remarks Q&A
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