Looking for mentor in developing swift app

Hey Apple fam,


New Swift dev here (previously a Javascript/React dev), and am working on my capstone project in Swift. I have been studying for about 2 weeks and have literally nobody else to mentor me in Swift (nobody at my school has learned it, I chose it as my independent study language).


My capstone is essential an ios app that is sort of like pinterest for smaller more personal groups. Users can 'share' a board & add items such as photos, videos, notes & website links (plus more) to their boards for each other to log in & see.


I am having lots and lots of trouble populating items onto my boards, trying to learn collection view but having a hard time finding good info on building one in the way that I want. I also want to implement dragging & dropping on the boards.


Is there anyone who is skilled at any of the functionality that I'll need to implement who would be willing to help me out from time to time? Ill send you a gift card or something haha.


Thanks so much!


Jewell - Seattle

Accepted Answer

You could also go to one of the Big Nerd Ranch courses:

https://www.bignerdranch.com/training/


Or read one of their introductory books to iOS and Swift:

https://www.bignerdranch.com/books/


And you can never go wrong by watching relevant WWDC videos about the subject matters you want to tackle:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc2018/

In addition to flipcoin’s excellent suggestions, I also recommend that you look to see if there’s an iOS developer group in your local area. Most big cities have one, and I’ve found that experienced developers are often happy to help folks out in this sort of face-to-face environment.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!”
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware

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