How to Mentor Yourself as a Mobile Developer
You can’t expect a colleague to do it all
One of the best predictors of success in your development career is having a mentor to help you through the rough and the smooth of your programming journey.
Ideally you have that senior colleague to talk through your latest bug or issue, and to give you an idea of how you might produce code that is better quality than any code you have created before.
A Mentor is difficult, if you work on your own
The world of mobile development can be rather isolating if you are working as a freelancer or are the only such employee at your company. What can you do in this case?
Work with the online community
Programmers are a social bunch, and doubly so when online. Look, if you’ve got an issue hit me up on Twitter. You can look through who I’m following to find other developers. Look at GitHub repos and see who is making those commits to open source projects. Type “Swift” into your Podcasts App (although watch out for Taylor).
There’s plenty of support out there (even on Reddit), tap into it and be prepared to ask for help. One word of warning though, Stack Overflow can be an intimidating place so if you’re…
