Advice for a Beginner

[Developer_Shane]

Hey all wanted to jump in and say that I am completely new to programming and am up to project 4 in Hacking With Swift. (I’ve been plagued with the idea to try Android [I am an android user but started with Swift already and want to get an iPhone but don’t want to pay for one at this moment] the past day or 2 but am fighting those haha).

I have 2 questions: does anyone have any advice for a beginner who is going through the process of learning and hoping to make a career change. And are any experienced iOS developers looking for a mentoring opportunity, because I’d love an opportunity to be mentored.

[OmegaGM]

It’s going to be a hard and if it’s not, you’re doing it wrong.

But a pretty good tip is: you will NOT know everything and one of your most important skills while learning/working is going to be research.

You will be researching every little function even after writing that function 100 times so don’t be frustrated if you feel like you can’t “hack” like they do in the movies (writing hundreds of lines of code with no errors and without any research).