ORIENTATION

ACCESSIBLE

IMPACTFUL
Your DevMountain Experience
Daily Schedule
9:00am: Documentation Review
9:30am: Stretch Problem - ObjC
10:00am: Lecture/Guided Practice
12:30pm: Lunch/Reteach
1:30pm: Stretch Problem - Swift
2:00pm: Project - Pair Programming
4:45pm: Mid-day Check-In
5:00pm: Project
Your DevMountain Experience
Weekly Items
- Guest teacher
- Mentor reviews
- Optional activities (fun)
- Cohort activities (fun)
- Friday breakfast
Events
Your DevMountain Experience
What are you paying for?
Expert teachers
Excellent mentors
Modern, project-based, refined curriculum
24/7 hack space
Network + alumni
Your DevMountain Experience
What are you not paying for?
24/7 access to teachers, mentors
Job
A static skillset
A personalized, 1:1 experience
Important things you should expect
- You should expect to struggle
- You should expect to feel dumber than others
- You should expect to feel overwhelmed
We have 12 weeks to turn you into an iOS developer.
Dealing with adversity
- Give up
- Get depressed
- Blame others
- Work hard, stay positive
Students who work the hardest and stay positive often surpass their "more experienced" peers.
Your DevMountain Experience

Stay Healthy
- Drink lots of water
- Eat healthy
- Exercise regularly
- Stand up and move around
Do's
- Respect peers, students, mentors
- Go "all in"
- Have fun
- Build relationships, not a competition
- Work with your mentor
- Follow the style guide
- Every single repo, mini project, toy problem
Don'ts
- Mess with the learning environment
- Leave early
- Miss class (email in case of emergency)
- Play music out loud (headphones)
- Interview for jobs prior to end of class
- In-class relationships
- Drugs/alcohol
Resources
Github
Slack
Trello
Queue
Working With Your Mentors
- 20 minute rule
- Trello subscribed stacks
- Github Issues
- Screenhero
- Pair Programming
- Code review
- Mentor hours
Come Up With the Question
LEAD INSTRUCTOR
Caleb Hicks
LEAD MENTOR
Taylor Mott
STUDENT SUCCESS
Krissy Weekly
Curriculum Lead
Joshua Howland
Pair Programming

iOS Immersive Orientation
By calebhicks
iOS Immersive Orientation
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