iPS 258: Learning Objective-C as a Swift Developer with Abbey Jackson

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan CacheFly 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 Picks Andrew Madsen: IconJar Dave Delong: The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter Jaim Zuber: Xcode - Apple Developer Abbey Jackson: CheatSheet - Know your short cuts