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mamad kachal
mamad kachal

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Is IOS app development hard?

Well, having mastered Swift along with iOS App Development and thence having bagged a high-paying iOS App Development job fresh out of college at IBM(US $92,800), by showcasing to the recruiters my skills in iOS App Development by the means of my popular app published on the Apple App Store, I would state that iOS App Development in itself is pretty simple to acquire skills in and can be successfully mastered in a fairly short span of time, typically 3–4 months, when one devotes about three hours a day into learning and practicing the subject. However, there is a caveat.

As a beginner, much of the learner’s interest lies in the hands of the tutor and the manner in which the course is delivered to the learner. Inefficient coaching can pretty quickly lead to the learner losing interest in the subject. In worst cases, this can significantly alter the direction of one’s career.

Well, to master iOS App Development, I had left no stone unturned. I had learnt from plethora of courses, books, PDF material, etc., but I always used to hit a wall a few days into the learning. In most cases, I felt that the author/tutor was in a hurry to get to the end of the course and was not educating the rationale behind writing those pieces of code and assuming that one is well versed with the Swift programming environment. But, that is not the case with someone who is a beginner.

See, when it comes to mastering iOS App Development, the most productive way is to opt for an effective learning resource - the one that makes the learning curve linear and progresses on difficult topics only after providing enough insights and examples on the concepts, the one that considers that students are new to the domain and are not well adept with the iOS App Development environment, the one that provides in-course support in the form of solving the doubts the students might have in a concept or while solving practice problems.

In my learning journey, I came across several resources in which I found that while explaining a concept/solving programming questions, the author applies a logic that has not been taught yet. This leads the learner to skip to those sections of the tutorial where that particular topic is discussed. The concepts taught in those sections in turn apply logic that belongs to another concept, discussed in another part of the resource. Often, this is a repetitive cycle.

However, expertise in iOS App Development is a highly sought-after skills in today’s time and the candidates who possess such skills are highly preferred by recruiters for the reason that humans are increasingly becoming reliant on their mobile phones for almost every purpose - profession, entertainment, socialization, purchases, etc. For every such purpose, there exists an app that we tend to rely on, and this is the very industry almost ever business wants to tap the customers of.

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Irena Grigor

Development iOS can be a challenge, but with the right resources and experience it becomes a fun process!

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