From Stock Trader to Software Developer with Taylor Covington #6

In this episode of the iOS dev podcast, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Taylor Covington. We cover topics such as breaking into the tech industry, web development, iOS development, indie projects, and coding bootcamps.

Audio Version: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/iosdevpodcast YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/iVRcHd5hLB4

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0:00 Intro 1:15 Changing Careers: Stock Trader to Developer 7:22 Deciding What Language To Learn? 9:23 Advice For Attending Bootcamp 11:25 Benefits of Soft Skills 12:11 Getting First Job As A Dev 13:21 Cultural Shift From Finance to Tech 17:44 Advice For Your Younger Self 19:20 Dealing with Imposter Syndrome 23:00 ChatGPT - Developers Best Friend 23:53 Story of MacroFlex 27:21 Biggest Like & Dislike of iOS Development 30:03 Plans for MacroFlex 32:30 Tech Marketing & Business Side 36:10 Advice for Web Developers learning iOS Development 37:37 Where would you Travel ? 39:32 Outro #iosdev #swift #careerchange