From Non-Technical Junior High Teacher to iOS Developer • Hacker News Board

Re: From Non-Technical Junior High Teacher to iOS Developer

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Post by calebhicks » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 4:15 PM UTC

nedwin wrote: post #30

Are you planning on moving out of teaching into development?

Great question. I really love what I do at the junior high. I teach business and teen entrepreneurship. I love going into work in the morning.

But I loved my experience this summer. I love the thrill of writing, building, and seeing my code work. The creator's high.

My current plan is to take a year off from teaching next year and pursue an entry-level development job with a good local company. I'm only 27, so while I'm not sure development is the full-time career path I want to take, I definitely want to try it out. In the end, it will boil down to whether I enjoy waking up and going to work as much as I do now.

Re: From Non-Technical Junior High Teacher to iOS Developer

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Post by infra178 » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 4:27 PM UTC

Does anybody have a recommendation of a good way to learn the same material for someone who's motivated but unemployed and dead broke?

Re: From Non-Technical Junior High Teacher to iOS Developer

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Post by bjones53 » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 5:02 PM UTC

Thank you for addressing the value of individualized learning and for assessing your experience based on the knowledge you acquired as opposed to your employability.

For every person that learns something on their own, there are many more that pay for courses, tutors, and even private coaching, due to some of the reasons you mentioned. I don't understand why programming is any different.

Re: From Non-Technical Junior High Teacher to iOS Developer

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Post by rrrrrraul » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 5:28 PM UTC

infra178 wrote: post #32

Does anybody have a recommendation of a good way to learn the same material for someone who's motivated but unemployed and dead broke?

Hey, I've been learning iOS dev on my own since the beginning of the year, try these:

-Stanford's Developing iOS Apps Course (free on iTunes U)

-developer.apple.com (unpaid account), gives you access to plenty of code examples to learn from and programming guides

-check out raywenderlich.com, objc.io, nshipster.com to name a few

-stackoverflow

-youtube(!)

-and if you can gather a few bucks, I'd recommend Big Nerd Ranch guide for Objective-C and the iOS programming version too

-IRC

Good luck!

Edit: formatting

Re: From Non-Technical Junior High Teacher to iOS Developer

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Post by infra178 » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 5:32 PM UTC

rrrrrraul wrote: post #34

infra178 wrote: post #32

Does anybody have a recommendation of a good way to learn the same material for someone who's motivated but unemployed and dead broke?

Hey, I've been learning iOS dev on my own since the beginning of the year, try these: -Stanford's Developing iOS Apps Course (free on iTunes U) -developer.apple.com (unpaid account), gives you access to plenty of code examples to learn from and programming guides -check out raywenderlich.com, objc.io, nshipster.com to name a few -stackoverflow -youtube(!) -and if you can gather a few bucks, I'd recommend Big Nerd Ran…

Great list! Thanks!

Re: From Non-Technical Junior High Teacher to iOS Developer

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Post by calebhicks » Tue, Aug 05, 2014, 6:17 PM UTC

rrrrrraul wrote: post #34

infra178 wrote: post #32

Does anybody have a recommendation of a good way to learn the same material for someone who's motivated but unemployed and dead broke?

Hey, I've been learning iOS dev on my own since the beginning of the year, try these: -Stanford's Developing iOS Apps Course (free on iTunes U) -developer.apple.com (unpaid account), gives you access to plenty of code examples to learn from and programming guides -check out raywenderlich.com, objc.io, nshipster.com to name a few -stackoverflow -youtube(!) -and if you can gather a few bucks, I'd recommend Big Nerd Ran…

The Big Nerd Ranch books are fantastic. Definitely check them out. I know they'll get something out for Swift sometime soon, but the iOS programming one would be a great foundation even with Objective-C as the sample code.

Some of the bootcamps will do financing. I'm against financing things that depreciate, but if you can get a decent job out of, it's not a terrible option.