🎯 My-iOS-Dev-Learning-Tracker

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❇️ General notes

✊ Practical knowledge

• Pet projects
• Practice projects
• Languages
• Memory management
• Multithreading and concurrency
• SwiftUI
• Cocoa Touch
• Software Architecture
• Dependencies management
• Project structure organisation
• Version Control Systems
• Debugging
• UX
• Caching and Persistency
• Testing
• Performance optimization
• Code signing
• Tools
• Continuous Integration
• Security
• tvOS
• WatchKit
• Core ML

🧠 Computer Science knowledge

• Algorithms
• Abstract Data Types
• System design
• Programming Paradigms

🥁 Project Management knowledge

• Project Management Metodologies

❇️ General notes

• My Skills and Experience
• References
• Useful Tools
• Useful links
  • 🧳 My main source of useful stuff
  • 🎒 Good practices
• Courses and books
• Inspiration
• Job hunt
• Command Line

✊ Practical knowledge

Pet projects

Practice projects

Languages

• [ ] Objective-C
  • [X] Program Structure
  • [X] Basic Syntax
  • [X] Data Types
  • [X] Variables
  • [X] Constants
  • [X] Operators
  • [X] Loops
  • [X] Decision Making
  • [X] Functions
  • [X] Blocks
    • [X] Memory Management
  • [X] Numbers
  • [X] Arrays
  • [X] Pointers
  • [X] Strings
  • [X] Structures
  • [X] Preprocessors
  • [ ] Typedef
  • [ ] Type Casting
  • [ ] Log Handling
  • [ ] Error Handling
  • [ ] Line Arguments
  • [X] Classes & Objects
  • [X] Inheritance
  • [X] Polymorphism
  • [X] Data Encapsulation
  • [ ] Categories
  • [ ] Posing
  • [X] Extensions
  • [X] Protocols
  • [ ] Dynamic Binding
  • [ ] Composite Objects
  • [ ] Foundation Framework
  • [ ] Fast Enumeration
  • [ ] Memory Management
  • [ ] KVC
  • [ ] KVO
  • [ ] Toll-free bridging
  • [ ] Runtime
    • [ ] Method messaging
    • [ ] NSZombies and KVO implementation
    • [ ] Swizzling
• [x] Swift
  • [X] The Basics
  • [X] Basic operators
  • [X] Strings and Characters
  • [X] Collection Types
  • [X] Control Flow
  • [X] Functions
  • [X] Closures
  • [X] Enums
  • [X] Structures and Classes
  • [X] Properties
  • [X] Methods
  • [X] Subscript
  • [X] Inheritance
  • [X] Initialization
  • [X] Deinitialization
  • [X] Optional Chaining
  • [X] Error Handling
  • [ ] Concurrency
  • [X] Type Casting
  • [X] Nested Types
  • [X] Extensions
  • [X] Protocols
  • [X] Generics
  • [X] Opaque Types
  • [X] Automatic Reference Counting
  • [X] Memory Safety
  • [X] Access Control
  • [x] Advanced Operators
  • [x] Runtime
    • [x] Method dispatch
  • [X] KVO
• [X] Swift & Objective-C work together

Memory management

• [X] Stack and Heap
• [X] Value vs Reference type
• [X] MRC
• [X] ARC
  • [X] Weak references
• [X] Retain cycles
• [X] Garbage collection
• [X] Memory leaks
• [X] Shallow and deep copying
• [X] Autorelease pool

Multithreading and concurrency

• [ ] POSIX and NSThreads
• [ ] Perform selector family
• [ ] GCD
• [X] NSOperation(Queue)
• [X] Runloop
• [X] Synchronization
• [ ] Problems
  • [ ] Race condition
  • [ ] Deadlock
  • [ ] Readers–writers problem

SwiftUI

Cocoa Touch

• [X] UIKit
  • [X] UIApplication
    • [X] States
    • [X] UIApplicationDelegate
  • [X] UIView
    • [X] UITableViews
    • [X] UICollectionViews
  • [ ] Layers
  • [X] Layout
    • [X] Frame-based
    • [X] Autolayout
      • [X] UIStackView
  • [ ] Animations
  • [ ] Transform
  • [X] Navigation
    • [ ] Deep links
    • [ ] FlowControllers
  • [X] UIViewController
    • [X] Lifecycle
• [X] Foundation
  • [X] Notifications Delegation and Observing
  • [ ] Collections
  • [X] Networking
  • [X] Serialization
    • [ ] NSCoding
    • [X] Codable
    • [X] JSON
    • [ ] XML
    • [ ] Protobuf
• [ ] UserNotifications
• [ ] Core Location
• [ ] Core Motion
• [X] Work in background mode

Software Architecture

• [ ] Design Patterns
  • [ ] Cocoa
    • [ ] Abstract Factory
      • [ ] Class cluster
    • [ ] Adapter
    • [ ] Command Pattern
    • [ ] Chain of Responsibility
    • [ ] Decorator
      • [ ] Delegation
      • [ ] Categories
    • [ ] Facade
    • [ ] Memento
    • [ ] Observer
    • [ ] Proxy
    • [ ] Receptionist
    • [X] Singleton
    • [ ] Template Method
    • [ ] MVC
  • [ ] Architectural
    • [X] MVC
    • [X] MVVM
    • [X] MVP
    • [ ] Clean architecture
      • [ ] VIPER
      • [ ] RIBs
    • [ ] Coordinators
  • [ ] Creational
    • [ ] Factory
    • [ ] Abstract Factory
    • [ ] Builder
    • [ ] Factory Method
    • [ ] Object Pool
    • [ ] Prototype
    • [X] Singleton
  • [ ] Structural
    • [ ] Adapter
    • [ ] Bridge
    • [ ] Composite
    • [ ] Decorator
    • [ ] Facade
    • [ ] Flyweight
    • [ ] Proxy
  • [ ] Behavioural
    • [ ] Command
    • [ ] Chain of responsibility
    • [ ] Interpreter
    • [ ] Iterator
    • [ ] Mediator
    • [ ] Memento
    • [ ] Observer
    • [ ] State
    • [ ] Strategy
    • [ ] Visitor
  • [ ] Concurrency
    • [ ] Anti-pattern
• [X] Design Principles
  • [X] SOLID
  • [X] DRY
  • [X] KISS
  • [X] YAGNI
  • [X] Inversion of Control
    • [X] Dependency Injection
    • [ ] Service Locator
  • [ ] Protocol-Oriented Programming

Dependencies management

• [X] Cocoapods
• [ ] Carthage
• [X] Swift Package Manager

Project structure organization

Version Control Systems

• [X] Git
  • [X] How to config
  • [X] How to clone
  • [X] How to commit
  • [X] How to pull
  • [X] How to push
  • [X] How to create/change/delete/merge branches
  • [X] How to log
  • [X] How to reflog
  • [X] How to resolve conflicts
  • [X] GitFlow

Debugging

• [ ] Instruments
• [ ] Best practices
  • [ ] Checklists

UX

• [ ] Human Interface Gidelines
• [ ] Custom transitions

Caching and Persistency

• [X] UserDefaults
• [ ] Saving files to disk (Codable)
• [ ] Keychain
• [ ] SQLite
• [ ] Core Data
• [ ] Realm
• [ ] Property Lists
• [ ] YAPDatabase

Testing

• [X] FIRST principles
• [X] Unit Tests
• [X] Snapshot Tests
• [X] Functional test
• [X] UI Tests
• [X] TDD (Test Driven Development)
• [ ] BDD

Performance optimization

• [ ] Increase FPS
• [ ] Decrease memory footprint

Code signing

Tools

• [X] IDE
  • [X] Xcode
    • [X] Interface Builder
    • [X] Rename project
    • [X] Delete derived data with Xcode
• [X] Swiftlint
• [ ] Sourcery
• [ ] Fastlane
• [X] Charles

Continuous Integration

• [ ] Jenkins / CircleCI / Bitrise / Github Actions
• [ ] Xcode server

Security

• [ ] Keychain
• [ ] Security Transforms API
• [ ] Secure Enclave

tvOS

• [ ] Focus interactions

WatchKit

Core ML

• [X] Model conversion
• [X] Create ML

Augmented Reality

🧠 Computer Science knowledge

Algorithms

• [X] Sorting
  • [X] Merge Sort
  • [X] Quick Sort
  • [X] Heap Sort
  • [X] Counting Sort
• [ ] Graph Theory
  • [ ] Depth-First Search (DFS)
  • [ ] Breadth-First Search (BFS)
  • [ ] Minimum Spanning Tree (MST)
  • [ ] Trees
• [X] Strings
  • [X] Brute-forse
  • [X] Boyer-Moore
• [ ] Greedy
• [ ] Dynamic Programming
• [ ] Bit Manipulation
• [ ] Recursion
• [ ] Game Theory
• [ ] NP Complete
• [X] Big-O notation

Abstract Data Types

• [x] Arrays
  • [x] Array
  • [x] Array 2D
• [X] Lists
  • [X] Singly linked list
  • [x] Doubly linked list
  • [X] Circular linked list
• [X] Maps
  • [X] Map
  • [X] Multimap
• [X] Hash tables
  • [X] Hash table
  • [X] Set
  • [X] Hash Set
  • [X] Multiset (Bag)
• [X] Graphs
• [ ] Queues
  • [X] Stack
  • [X] Queue
  • [ ] Priority Queue
  • [ ] Double-ended priority queue
  • [ ] Double-ended queue (Deque)
  • [ ] Ring Buffer
• [ ] Trees
  • [X] Tree
  • [ ] Binary Tree
  • [ ] Binary Search Tree (BST)
  • [X] Heap

System design

• [ ] Problems

Programming Paradigms

• [X] Object-Oriented
• [ ] Functional
  • [ ] Functional Reactive Programming Frameworks
    • [ ] React Native
    • [ ] RxSwift
    • [ ] RxRealm, RxDataSources
    • [ ] Combine

🥁 Project Management knowledge

Project Management Metodologies

• [X] Kanban
• [ ] Scrum
• [ ] Agile
• [ ] Lean
• [ ] Waterfall
• [ ] Six Sigma
• [ ] PMI/PMBOK

😉 Feel free to text me

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Twitter: @Lemonbrusher

🙏 Acknowledgments

I was inspired by Syknapse. He does cool things! The tree is almost complete copy of iOS-Developer-Roadmap

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