Learning to Code

When I started learning Swift and iOS development, I did what everyone does — opened Udemy and bought a course. Then another. And another. And before I knew it, I had started like 3 different beginner courses… and still had finished not one of those. Midway I had gotten bored in each one because the thing they were teaching was too boring, too basic. It was nothing like the billion dollar iOS app that I wanted to build....

The urge to create something beautiful for iPhone I didn’t think I’d be learning how to build iPhone apps at 30. Not while juggling a product marketing career, masters in data science, a family life, and the sinking feeling that I really should have taken coding more seriously 10 years ago. The unfortunate reality is that the way coding was taught (electronics engineering degree), especially how “pointers” in C++ were taught made me believe coding wasn’t for me....