Hello World

Hello and welcome to sandbox software. My goal with this blog is to document the process of becoming a iOS Engineer. Taking small steps everyday and logging the process here. I have a number of avenues available to me to help achieve this goal, so today just going to go over my study strategy.

To start off I will be reading the book directly from Apple education, Develop in Swift Explorations. This book is actually a full course and study guide packed in one. It covers a range of beginner topics of app development and explores the design process. The book is structured as a course so there are labs and exercises for each chapter of the book. So my strategy is to read a chapter, take notes during my reading, then complete all the labs and commit them to my personal GitHub page.

After I complete explorations I will be taking the associate level Develop with Swift Certification exam from Certiport. Following that I will be rolling right into the next book in the series with the same possibly slightly modified strategy for the book Develop in Swift Fundamentals. This book also has a certification associated with it, and is labeled Certified User. The final book in the series is called Data Collections, and does not have a certificate for it rather it’s goal is the take all the knowledge from the previous books and assist in publishing a full featured app to the App Store.

That’s my plan to get up and running with iOS development pretty simple just following the Develop in Swift series, and log regularly to this blog. I have a few other ideas to keep things fresh like a potential YouTube series reviewing the book material in preparation of the tests. Once I am finished with the books I think it’s fairly safe to say I’ll be at an intermediate level of developer. I have some programming experience already through my degree and work. But this should be a great foundation for my future.