30Afterword
Welcome to the end of the book! You should be very proud of all your work and all that you have learned. Now, there’s good news and bad news:
- The good news: The stuff that leaves programmers befuddled when they come to the iOS platform is behind you now. You are an iOS developer.
- The bad news: You are probably not a very good iOS developer.
What to do next
It is now time to make some mistakes, read some really tedious documentation, and be humbled by the heartless experts who will ridicule your questions. Here’s what we recommend:
Write apps now. If you don’t immediately use what you have learned, it will fade. Exercise and extend your knowledge. Now.
Go deep. This book has consistently favored breadth over depth; any chapter could have ...
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