In 2012, I considered becoming an iOS app developer. At that time, iOS apps were written in Objective C. I had no prior programming education or experience, so I bought two books to teach myself: Programming in Objective-C (Developer’s Library) 4th Edition by Stephen G. Kochan and Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide 1st Edition by Aaron Hillegass. Using these resources, along with some YouTube videos, I developed and published two apps on the Apple App Store. While I enjoyed making these apps, I also realized that pursuing app development as a career path was full of uncertainty and risk. Later that year, I got hired as a compliance analyst at a mortgage lender, launching my career in a new direction. Although I did not continue developing apps, I have continued to dabble in programming as a hobby, and this experience has helped me in my recent transition from mortgage to AI compliance.
Add Faster
My first app, Add Faster, went live on the app store on February 23, 2012. This was a simple addition practice app for children. It featured two modes: an untimed practice mode that presented randomly-generated addition problems and a timed version that tracked the number of correct answers, encouraging children to surpass previous records by answering faster. It also offered themes: chalkboard, strawberry, space, and ocean.
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Eine Note
My second app, Eine Note, went live on the app store on July 3, 2012. This was a simple note taking app that supported only a single persistent note. The purpose of the app was to provide a place for people to keep track of short-term information they need to quickly capture, without becoming a repository for outdated notes. It included the following features:
- A single note window for holding timely notes
- A minimalist design
- Automatically entered editing mode in landscape orientation
- Buttons for a date stamp, bullets, and tab
- A button for clearing the note
- Export to email option
- Copy to clipboard option
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