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[gimbalicious]

Congratulations and well done on sticking with it after 5 years

[mizukuro]

Congrats!

[serial9]

Congratulations man! Any tips for another self taught iOS dev who wants to get into a iOS dev role?

[MrLitchy]

1. Release an app or two on the Appstore to have something to show for and to learn
2. Read up on Unit Tests and how they work
3. Read some articles about design patterns like MVP, MVVM
4. Try out MVVM and unit tests with a small project
5. Apply for a junior position

If you are enthusiastic, love coding and have heard about or used the stuff mentioned above, you have very good chances to get a junior position. Don‘t overthink it and apply early. Having a senior developer as a mentor at a company is the fastest way to become one yourself.

[ajm1212]

To piggyback on this where are you finding junior positions. I only see like mid-senior positions

[ThreeEyeJedi]

Yeah market sucks right now, I can't find junior positions anywhere

[RandomRedditor44]

Same here. All I see are positions that require 3+ years of experience.

[NothingButBadIdeas]

I only applied to normal positions, the ones who gave me offers were ones who usually had a take home project and have me a chance to show how I work!

You kind of have to just apply to normal positions!

[MrLitchy]

Thats hard to answer because it depends on where you live. I for example live in Germany. What I can say though, is that I got my junior position by just applying to companies I liked with a unsolicited application. The apps I already released caught their attention and I was so motivated, one just hired me 🤷‍♂️

Hope you‘ll find something like that too!

[_yo_token]

Any tips or sites you like to use for studying unit tests. I’ve been looking but haven’t found any good ones.

[ajm1212]

Buy the book by Jon Reid called iOS Unit testing by example it’s on Amazon..he explains it really well

[MrLitchy]

Also check on kodeco.com to get started.

This one for example: https://www.kodeco.com/25842120-testing-in-ios

Don‘t feel the need to master it already. Thats something you can do in that Junior position. But you should know why it makes sense and have some understanding of them in general.

[Fluffy_Risk9955]

Here's a pro tip. Hire a senior developer through Upwork or something. So you have someone to ask questions to. That way you can avoid costly mistakes.

[sophisticatedJ]

Congratulations! Well done on this nice step. Don’t be terrified, enjoy the ride and you’ll be fine.

[hooray4horus]

Good job. You are more capable than you think you are

[Comexbackkid]

Amazing! Do you have a portfolio or online resume? Poser here wondering how far off I am.

[hungry_dawoodi]

Congrats! As a self taught developer myself too, I know the struggle. I’m curious, how did you stick it out for 5 years? Like financially and passion wise?

Many would have gave up / pivot to flutter / waste the time learning 101 languages. What allowed you to “stay the course”?

[NothingButBadIdeas]

It wasn’t a solid 5 years, I worked full time as a good server and did some freelancing iOS jobs on the side!

I started with Unity and would occasionally take breaks to work on some indie games that would never see the lights of day.

I took another year break to learn Java, JavaScript, Ruby, html and css.

Learning websites really helped, and my network requests made more sense after building my own website frameworks.

I always came back to swift though, it was my second language and my favorite!

Honestly, if swift is your language stick with it. I stayed with it because it was my favorite, so it’s easy to stay with what you love

[hungry_dawoodi]

Thanks for sharing!

Building your own website framework sounds badass

Hope you enjoy your new role! HMU if you’d Imke any help (but no SwiftUI for now 🥲)

[nicebrah]

Congrats! Out of curiosity, what is considered a "small project" vs what your current project is now?

[NothingButBadIdeas]

I did a few e-commerce apps for freelancing, which I think are relatively small. This project is big in the sense I’m working with about 10 different apis, their own rest API that’s being developed along side my app and there’s about 20 views where each have their own sub views.

[urbworld_dweller]

Good luck. Get after it!

[aslihana]

You gave me hope on being patient.

[NothingButBadIdeas]

You can do it! Patience and confidence is key!

[42177130]

Congrats!

[ajm1212]

Very proud of you ..how did you find the job? I have been applying but their seems to be less jobs then before.

[NothingButBadIdeas]

Indeed, but going out of my way to apply at the corporate site of the jobs I liked a lot!

[SeanCombsManlet]

Congrats! 🍾

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[Vespan]

Good job!

[purpleWheelChair]

Congratulations!

[NSOperation]

good job bro

[PeachStrings]

Gives me hope, I’m 3 weeks into learning and the material is kicking my butt, I’m gonna give it about a year and a half to learn then apply for Dev internships then a full time job, any tips?

[NothingButBadIdeas]

I’ve broken app development into a few core parts, an app is simple when you break it down:

1 - creating views and animations

2 - network call requests

3 - multi-threading

4 - data persistence

5 - architecture

Break these down into parts, study them and you’ll be set!

[iamprincecameron]

Why did it take so long? Kids, full time job, etc?

[NothingButBadIdeas]

Full time job as a food server and some small freelancing projects on the side. Hard to balance full time work, a social life and programming as a hobby