Pair-Programming.md

Pair Programming Exercise

Prerequisites for this exercise

• Xcode preferably the most up to date version.
• Terminal and git experience.
• Swift fundamentals.
• iOS and UIKit experience.
• Using dependencies e.g CocoaPods or Swift Package Manager.
• Multithreading and Asynchronous programming.
• Networking in iOS.
• Unit Testing.
• Ability to debug a given code base.
• Experience with the Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and Apple design best practices.
• MVC or MVVM experience.
• Eye for subtle effective use of animataions.
• Experience using Postman or similar.

Checklist of topics to know

• Parsing JSON data from a Web API
• Populate a Table View with given data.
• Populate a Collection View with data and create custom cell.
• Use URLSession natively without any third party libraries.
• Comfortable using breakpoints and po as a debugging tool.
• Be able to segue and pass data to a view controller.
• Use of gesture recogizers e.g long press, tap.
• Use delegation pattern or callbacks to communicate data.
• Be comfortable setting up views using Storyboards, nibs.
• Be comfortable setting up views programmatically.
• Source control management using git and Github.
• Be able to create animations using UIKit built-in APIs. e.g UIView.animate
• Familiarity with dependency managers e.g Cocoapods or Swift Package Manager in order to use third party libraries.

Reading resources

1. Things I’ve learned from pair programming interviews