I learned a programming language on my phone, here’s what happened

Welcome back! So about a week ago I went off on a journey to learn a new programming language using an app on my phone. First off, i’m using the term “learn” loosely, I am by no means an expert on this new language which was Swift 4, but I have taken tons of programming courses / program every single day pretty much so I can kind of understand how proficient I am with a new language, and although I believe I learned a lot, I don’t think i’m ready to get handed a job using Swift ☺️. However, for a free app on the App store / Google Play Store, i’m surprised how great the experience was.

The Good

Starting off, the specific app that I used was called Solo Learn, it’s free in the App Stores but there is a pro version to sign up for, I didn’t sign up for the pro version and only used the free version. Now, i’m going to try not to praise or complain about this specific app, rather than talk about the experience about the actual learning process on your phone. First off, one of my favorite things about this was the convenience of the courses available, many apps on the App store are available in this same format, and just having the ability to quickly learn a few more things about a language is super awesome. If there was a bit of downtime you could essentially pick up your phone and just code a bit, I found…