iOS: How and why?

My slides for my last talk in Mansoura Uni, community event to teach students about the market needs and how they can be part of it.

It's a quick intro about how to get in iOS and mobile development.

Transcript

1. Going iOS, How and why? By Abdulrhman Eaita @yoloabdo
2. – Unknown “Every advice is a bad advice.”
3. Apps I’ve worked on
4. The market & apps economy
5. Global Apple iPhone sales from 3rd quarter 2007 to 1st quarter 2018 (in million units) From statista.com
6. Apps economy only takes into account paid apps, in-app purchases, and subscriptions. It’s not measuring things like in-app advertising, the commerce taking place in apps (e.g. shopping and ride-sharing), or the money being made on the third-party Android app stores around the world.
7. How easy it’s to start?
8. Being the best iOS dev in town. There’s only one key: Focus on getting better.
9. What makes me better? • Start. • Find people who inspire you, but don't idolize them. • Don't devalue your work. • Dig into past research/Projects. • Take on big projects. Get uncomfortable. • Speak, ask, engage!
10. • Learn programming basics. • Learn from the best available resources.(Online platforms: Edx, Coursera, WWDC, Udacity, Ray Wenderlich, objc.io, and others! • Practice makes you perfect!: build something and write code daily! (mastering a skill takes 10,000 hours, though it’s kinda a myth, but it has its trueness) • Know what others did, but make your own path.(Check WWDC Scholarship for students) • Always invest in yourself first. (buy courses, it’s never a waste of money!) • Learn Cutting-edge technologies! • Don’t get bored in the middle of the journey!
12. My learning path • Programming intro (CS 106A & CS 106B from Stanford, CS50) • Introductions to iOS via many resources, plus Stanford course on iTunes(CS193P). • Practicing for a year before any actual work. • First job was a freelance from UPWork(Go chat). • Continues learning.
13. Swift/Objc/React native? • It’s a common question between beginners, since there’s many tech stacks to choose from, with no actual winner as it all depends on your needs/time/cost. • Start with what fits your goals, and learn about other ways on the road. • Mostly start with swift, unless you wanna work for instaBug, go ObjC.
14. Time to find a job? • Know what you can do. • Approach with confidence • You don’t know everything, but you can always research! • Make your work speaks for you instead of your CV(which no one gives a dam how pretty it’s) • Keep learning. • Which environment fits me better?
16. Why iOS as a platform?
17. AI, AR, ML, Games? • What can I do with iPhone and iOS? • Topics like AI, ML and games are always hot topics in college and academic community, work on real projects that’s implemented directly on your phone! • There’s many frameworks that apple provides more than this: Home, Health, SpriteKit, etc • Test, break, do crazy things!
20. Swift Cairo!
21. iOS community • Building community is a very basic thing that we should’ve everywhere! • I’ve been noticing the absence of community long time ago, so I decided to start one: SwiftCairo! • Make your own community, participate with others, don’t feel embarrassed, or shy! • Join SwiftCario meetup on slack and on meetup.com, follow also on twitter @swiftCairo • Hope that there will be MansouraSwift community soon!
22. Demo time!
23. Questions? Maybe you’ve one or two!