Proposed subjects for becoming a better iOS developer. Subjects aimed for https://medium.com/@shtopointo

Enumerated in no particular order:

• the beauty of clean code: code refactoring, design patterns, best practices
• comparative analysis of code (before/after, different possibilities for solving a problem)
• commenting your code, code documentation
• implementing UI in code vs. implementing UI in the xib; auto-layout
• Git, or a primer to Git as a versioning system -- Git and best practices around iOS programming (Xcode project files, Core Data merging (or lack of), branching etc.)
• cocoapods
• lazy loading
• singletons (and the problems associated with them)
• blocks -- blocks and callbacks; blocks in notifications; yielding; general memory management related to blocks
• atomic/nonatomic
• strong/weak relationships
• accessors
• pointers
• delegates and data sources
• threads, threading
• complier: compiler information, pre-compile headers
• when views load (loadView, viewDidLoad, awakeFromNib)
• common good practices, e.g. init with nib directly in init
• networking, AFNetworking
• ReactiveCocoa
• a look at MVVM as an alternative to MVC
• subclass UIViews and perform UI code there instead of overloading it in a UIViewController
• iPads; universal app bundles vs. device specific ones (i.e. separate app for iPad)
• Some psychological points: Keeping yourself motivated; Working on your own projects; should you contribute to open source?; following people, discussions, trends; joining meet-ups; speaking at meet-ups; work on non-related subjects on the side; having patience; learning by doing
• picking another skill when you become better at Objective-C: server side development, networking, design, UX, marketing, sales etc. Reuse knowledge in between skills, broaden your horizon.