How to help someone get started with iOS engineering 👩🏽💻👨🏻💻
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This week I want to tell you about a new learning resource Apple released earlier this year just before WWDC called Pathways.
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When you’re an experienced iOS developer, there always comes a time when someone asks you: “How can I get started with iOS engineering?”
And it’s a tough question to answer!
There are, of course, some very well known resources, such as the CS193p course from Stanford or Paul Hudson’s 100 days of Swift.
But what used to be severely lacking were learning resources made by Apple themselves!
After all, Apple does a great job of releasing high-quality learning material each year through their WWDC videos, so it really was a shame that they didn’t do the same for beginner-level resources.
But that finally changed in May 2024, when Apple released something called Pathways:
What Pathways does is to provide new aspiring iOS developers with the steps they’ll need to follow in order to achieve their learning goals.
If you go on the Pathways website, you’ll see a list of these learning goals, which includes:
how to get started designing an app
more niche topics, such as creating games or visionOS apps
and how to distribute apps on the App Store
So what do you find inside a Pathway?
Let’s take the example of the Swift Pathway:
As you can see, a Pathway is a single webpage that guides you towards your learning goal by providing you with overviews of the concepts you’ll need to learn, along with links to existing Apple resources that explore these concepts in more details.
Another way to say it is that Pathways are guides aimed at beginners, that show them how to efficiently navigate and leverage all of the existing Apple documentation, tutorials and WWDC sessions.
So next time that someone asks you the question “How can I get started with iOS engineering?”, make sure to let them know about Pathways!
(And of course, don’t hesitate to also share with them your favorite learning resources from the community: they’re not mutually exclusive!)
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