Software That's Magic

Landing Your First iOS Developer Job My Journey It's easy to feel lost I was bored with my job.  Every day seemed to be exactly the same as the day before.  My brain was set to off for all but a few minutes every day.  I wasn't challenged.  I was literally going in circles (you have no idea how literally).  It was time for a change. Coding is something that I became interested in when I was only about 7 or 8 years old.  My dad was working for Microsoft at the time, and brought home some Basic (the language) programming books for kids.  I can't even express in words the first time I learned how to use Boolean logic that executed a goto statement.  It was like creating my own Choose Your Own Adventure book.  I could get lost inside a world of integers, strings, and goto's for hours. As I got older, coding started becoming a background hobby, as I was introduced to memory management, arrays, and command line arguments in C, and s...

print("Hello, world!") By Daniel Pratt Here we go, a brand new blog for a not so brand new venture.  I have been dabbling in programming since I was barely able to read.  My dad started getting into programming at his new job at this little company called Microsoft, and he brought home some books especially made for kids to teach them how to program in BasicA.  I ate it up. I kept it up as I got older, teaching myself QBasic, a little C, and some Visual Basic.  Oddly, when I turned 14, or 15, I sort of started to let it slide, and pursued other interests.  I always wanted to learn to program, but didn't really realize that it could be an actual career until much later in life. A couple years ago, I started picking up books on Objective-C programming, and later on Swift.  I found some online courses, and started chugging through.  None of it was very good, but I was able to eventually cobble together and release my first app (which is li...