From Non-Technical Junior High Teacher to iOS Developer

I&#x27;m a full time iOS dev that taught myself. I spent a ton of time working through my struggles via StackOverflow and piece working online tutorials.<p>Very cool to see what you were able to build in only 12 weeks.<p>Why did you choose this, instead of learning yourself. Didn&#x27;t you still have to do all the work to learn even with the program?

I know the point of this post is to show how a non-technical person learned to code enough to build iphone apps in 12 weeks, but I&#x27;m really, really excited about &quot;Wired In.&quot; Well done.

Edit: being down voted because of an opinion?<p>Hey, I want to middle school with Caleb!<p>On a more related note: It&#x27;s exciting to see others realize how simple and painless Apple has made iOS dev. It still takes logical chops and a keen eye to make something worthwhile, but the bridge between non-developer and developer is getting shorter and shorter.<p>The new iOS 8 kits will shorten that gap even more.<p>Still, as a developer myself with some successful projects behind me, I&#x27;m a student of thought that the marketplace is becoming so saturated it will only be very high-caliber apps that survive. Or, I guess, developers who can stick out the rough times as well as the good ones. How new developers fit into that landscape is still uncertain.<p>As I haven&#x27;t done any Android development, can anyone shed light on how similar the two processes are (iOS dev vs. Android)?

Caleb did a great job in the iOS class. Super impressed with what he&#x27;s built and how far he&#x27;s come.

Thank you for addressing the value of individualized learning and for assessing your experience based on the knowledge you acquired as opposed to your employability.<p>For every person that learns something on their own, there are many more that pay for courses, tutors, and even private coaching, due to some of the reasons you mentioned. I don&#x27;t understand why programming is any different.

After reading those recent financial&#x2F;earnings from iOS game developers on HN, I&#x27;d be very wary of dropping 4,500$ for a 12 week course.

Does anybody have a recommendation of a good way to learn the same material for someone who&#x27;s motivated but unemployed and dead broke?

Are you planning on moving out of teaching into development?

DevMountain has produced some great talent from what I&#x27;ve seen.

&quot;non-technical&quot;.