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5 Things I wish I knew before my first day as an iOS developer

No matter how experienced you are, don’t get caught out in front of your new colleagues.

Steven Curtis
3 min readOct 23, 2019

Being professional is sometimes a challenge for developers. But you really need to fake it until you make it. This mini-guide is there to help you out.

Difficulty: Easy | Normal | Challenging

Prerequisites:

  • Enough experience to get a job as an iOS developer!

Xcode’s dark mode

Even if you don’t like it

Nothing will make you stand out at your chosen place of work like the glow of your face as the whiteness of Xcode reflects from your skin. You look around, and then see none of your colleagues have this problem.

They’re using dark mode.

Enable this on your machine through System Preferences > General > Appearance

Indent your code properly

The tabs / spaces argument isn’t funny

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