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Related Episodes

• Episode 25 - Hiring an iOS Developer with John Knox
• Episode 29 - Managing iOS Development with Peter Witham

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• 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
• Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

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Why Training Is Important

• What is the Red Queen Dilemma?
• What's the difference between Coding and Programming
• Why knowing your customer's needs helps your training be better focused
• The significance of Soft Skills too
• Why you should invest in your current employees rather than hiring new employees
• When consultants and trainers make the most sense
• Building Good Documentation

What Makes For Good Training Material

• Make sure the pattern and style matches yours
• Good production quality
• Make sure it's readable!
• Make sure your audience understands - Bloom's Taxonomy
• Make sure it sticks

Creating Good Training Videos

• Steve Lipton - No Biz Like Show Biz: Video Recording Your App for Marketing and Instruction
• Have a decent microphone
• Have a quiet room
• Font Size 20 and up
• Balance Size, Resolution and File Size - 16:9 HD Resolution
• Have a script to follow

How to Judge Good Training Material Online

• How many video do they have?
• Watch the welcome video
• Good series of tracks
• Good organization

Specific Challenges with Xcode and Swift

• Dealing with constant changes and updates (i.e. Xcode)
• Understand updates are part of the workflow
• Patterns are more stable then APIs (i.e. Reactive Programming vs Combine)
• Apple's Character Arcs

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