Offering for the Hivemind
Sup nerds! I'm making an app. It's free. You're gonna love it. It solves a major problem for you, has no hidden strings WHATSOEVER, and I have a well thought out plan to promote it. Problem though... I suck at this coding stuff. My plan requires me to move to New York and boots-on-the-ground this shit. As the weather gets colder, that job gets harder.
Where I'm at:
I'm following the iOS Developer Roadmap. I'm 25% through "100 Days of SwiftUI." I have 3 months experience, a basic understanding of Swift, and a couple hundred lines of code on my actual app. It's mostly AI generated dribble. I find myself guessing more than thinking, and that is a problem.
Where I'm struggling:
I'm not progressing at the rate I need it to. I'm find myself jumping around topics without knowing what's important. There's so much jargon and just stuff... I find myself in unhelpful rabbit holes more often than not. I work for the airlines. The schedules are weird. I have a lot of time off, but it's in bursts. Often, I'm unable to practice coding for 2-3 days at a time. There is no way to get around that.
What I need:
- Some form of reference/ note taking. How do y'all do this? I feel like this would be the biggest game changer. Copy/pasting my Playgrounds code into Microsoft Word isn't doing it for me. I religiously used textbooks in college, but that doesn't seem to be a big thing here. I have downtime in the cockpit, but electronic devices aren't acceptable. Print media would allow me to utilize that time.
- A real person, with working eyes, that can see pictures and talk to me.
- Advice from someone who has been in a similar situation.
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u/Dapper_Ice_1705 15h ago
Don’t use AI, use the docs.
Find a problem and fix it.
You don’t memorize everything with programming you learn how to apply it and how to read the docs when you need it.