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Posted by Jason Cornwall
Jason Cornwall
9,645 Points

Has Anyone Built An App Because Of The iOS Course?

I had started the iOS track a while back and I really want to start taking it again. I was curious though, has anyone built a custom app because of what they learned by taking the Swift course? Please let me know and post a link to your app if you have. Thanks!

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

I launched one back in 2014 after finishing the Objective-C course, and I'm about to launch one that I wrote in Swift, though it's been a while since I've taken the Treehouse course. AMA

Jason Cornwall
Jason Cornwall
9,645 Points

Did you use a lot of other resources or was treehouse your primary source for learning?

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

With my Objective-C app, Treehouse got me 95% of the way there, and Facebook's, Twitter's, and Apple's documentation got me the rest of the way. The Swift one I'm launching soon is doing a lot of stuff that Treehouse doesn't cover, so the knowledge I got from Treehouse got me probably about 60%-70% of the way there, and the rest was blog posts of people doing similar things, and Apple's documentation, of course. Other resources that are really helpful include NSHipster and Ray Wenderlich, as well as just Google in general. Also an awesome resource for learning about how to write better code is the News tab of Realm's website.

On a side note, while I was typing this response, I stumbled across an article on NSHipster about an easy way to implement something in my Swift app that I thought would be remarkably hard to implement on my own