iPS 258: Learning Objective-C as a Swift Developer with Abbey Jackson
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English - March 28, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBHow To Education Business Careers programming javascript web framework development front end developer programmer internet node Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Panel:
Andrew Madsen
Jaim Zuber
Erica Sadun
Dave Delong
Special Guest: Abbey Jackson
Episode Summary
In this episode of iPhreaks, panel hosts Abbey Jackson, a senior software engineer at Mastercard fraud detection from Vancouver, Canada.
Abbey was a part time nanny before she became a developer. Her journey as a developer started when she decided to attend an 8-week Swift boot camp. Within 3 years of the boot camp she started working at Mastercard as a senior developer. Although Abbey currently develops using Objective-C, she started developing in Swift. She talks about the different concepts she struggled with as a Swift developer, such as the difference between nil, NULL and NSNull in Objective–C.
They talk about the tools and books available to developers who want to learn Objective–C. Abbey has used the Slack Objective–C channel extensively to ask for advice on coding practices.
Links
Abbey's Twitter
Abbey's GitHub
Abbey's Website
https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv
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