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Upgrading Your Skills in 2020 with Paul Hudson

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Conference Thoughts

  • Cultural Differences 
  • Why Speakers Should Be Available To Attendees
  • The Challenges of Putting On Conferences
  • Organizers Making Attendees Happy
  • Having Really Nice Venue
  • Workshops vs Talks
  • Where Does the Community Fall Short with Inclusivity and Accessibility
  • Having Children-Friendly and Budget-Friendly Events

What to Upgrade Skills and Why

  • Where Do You Want to Be In a Year?
  • Ask People In Those Positions
  • The Technology Field Demands Continuing Education
  • Continuing Education means New APIs but also...
    • Older APIs - UIKit, Networking, Unit Testing, etc...
    • Swift Syntax
    • Patterns and Practice

Dealing with Updates to Swift 

Upgrading Your Core Skills

  • Why it's important to have Core Skills and not just Coding Skills?
  • The Importance of Good Internal Presentation 
  • Why Senior Developers need Good Communication Skills
  • Picking Up on Impromptu Speaking Skills
  • Don't Feel Obligated Into a Role such as Public Speaker

Upgrading Your Swift Skills

  • Paul's Thoughts on SwiftUI
  • Understanding The New Patterns of SwiftUI
  • The Importance of Unit Testing
  • Ash Farrow on JS vs Swift
  • The Complexity of Xcode

Upgrading Other Tech Skills

  • Git and Version Control
  • Learning New and Different Tools
  • Terminal and Bash Scripting
  • Regular Expressions
  • Try Swift on other Devices
  • Be curious about other languages and platforms

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