u/deirdresmin r/swift • Recommends
On “I’m basically a beginner in app development, but have completed Paul Hudson’s 100 days of SwiftUI. But I’ve been curious about why people talk about how complex creating an actual app rather than just a small project is. Are they really all that much more complex?”
No, it is not too big.
Example: Zelda game in Python, from scratch, in < 8 hrs. Video is real time.
Granted, he did a *ton* of prep work before that, including procuring all the assets (read: images) and doing all the planning, and learning the game engine he’s using.
I started the skeleton in Swift, then immediately landed six on-site interviews over two weeks, and then started a job, so had put the project on the back burner. (I’m going to spend less time on great circle mapping today so I can make some progress on this.)
When you’re looking at projects like this, it’s good to keep track of the critical path: those tasks that block other tasks’ completion. Like: you don’t need final…