Cracking The Ios Interview: Key Coding Challenges

Understanding the Coding Challenge Skills in a Tech Interview to be an iOS Developer

What you'll learn

Understand and Solve Common String Manipulation Problems

Apply Basic Higher-Order Functions in Swift

Develop Techniques for Counting and Comparing Characters

Enhance Code Quality and Efficiency

Solve Mathematical Coding Challenges in Swift

Manipulate and Analyze Strings

Implement Basic Algorithmic Functions

Understand and Apply Recursion

Requirements

Students should have a foundational knowledge of Swift, including basic syntax, data types, and control structures.

Learners should be comfortable using Xcode and have a basic understanding of the iOS development workflow.

Students will need access to a Mac computer with Xcode installed to practice the coding challenges and follow along with the course material.

Students should be motivated to enhance their coding interview skills and ready to practice coding challenges to prepare for job interviews in iOS development.

Description

Course Description: Cracking the iOS Interview: Key Coding ChallengesPrepare for your iOS technical interviews with Norbert Grover's expert-led course designed to master coding challenges crucial for success. This course focuses on essential coding problems and techniques that interviewers seek, providing you with the tools to demonstrate proficiency in Swift during technical interviews.What You Will Learn:Interview Insights: Understand what interviewers look for in coding challenges and how to showcase your coding proficiency.String Manipulation: Tackle various string-based problems, from checking unique characters to finding the longest common prefix.Array Handling: Learn to sort, find indices, and handle array-based challenges.Higher-Order Functions: Master the use of higher-order functions and recursive logic in Swift.Arithmetic Challenges: Develop functions to handle prime numbers, numeric strings, and other arithmetic operations.Control Structures and Complexity: Dive into loops, benchmarking, and understanding time and space complexities.Course Outline:1. Introduction: Course overview and instructor introduction.2. Coding Challenges Fundamentals: Using Xcode Swift and playgrounds.3. String Challenges: Unique characters, palindromes, substrings, and more.4. Array Challenges: Sorting, indexing, and finding missing elements.5. Higher-Order Functions: Basics and advanced usage.6. Recursive Logic: Solving problems with recursion.7. Arithmetic Functions: Prime checking, numeric strings, and calculations.8. Control Structures: Efficient use of loops and understanding complexity.9. Benchmarking and Complexity: Time and space complexity analysis.Who Should Enroll?iOS Job Seekers: Ideal for developers preparing for technical interviews.Aspiring iOS Developers: Those looking to sharpen their problem-solving skills in Swift.Prepare effectively for your iOS technical interviews with practical, real-world coding challenges and expert guidance from Norbert Grover. Enroll now and take the next step in your iOS development career!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Explanation of the course and the instructor.

Lecture 2 Coding challenges are just a part of the interview analysis.

Section 2: Introduction to coding challenges with Xcode Swift and playgrounds.

Lecture 3 Introduction to coding challenges with Xcode Swift and playgrounds.

Section 3: Dealing with strings in coding challenges

Lecture 4 Are all characters in a String unique?

Lecture 5 Alternative solutions

Lecture 6 What is a palindrome?

Lecture 7 Do 2 strings have the same characters?

Lecture 8 Finding the substring within the string?

Lecture 9 Count the number of times a character appears in a string

Lecture 10 How do you remove duplicate characters?

Lecture 11 How do you remove white spaces?

Lecture 12 Is the string rotated?

Lecture 13 Is the string a pangram?

Lecture 14 Counting vowels and consonants in a string

Lecture 15 Is a pair of strings different by more than 3 characters?

Lecture 16 Find the longest common prefix.

Lecture 17 Reverse the order of characters in a string.

Lecture 18 How do you sort an array of strings by length?

Lecture 19 Return the index of an item in an array.

Lecture 20 How to test if 2 strings are isomorphic.

Section 4: Higher order functions

Lecture 21 Primer for higher order functions

Lecture 22 More higher order functions

Section 5: Recursive Logic

Lecture 23 Show all permutations

Section 6: Encoding

Lecture 24 A function that performs run-length encoding.

Section 7: Arithmetic functions

Lecture 25 Re-create a power function

Lecture 26 Create a function that decides whether a number is prime.

Lecture 27 Decide if a string is numeric

Lecture 28 Adding string characters as though they were integers.

Lecture 29 Calculate the square root of an integer.

Lecture 30 How many times does a character appear in an array of integers?

Lecture 31 How do you find the 3 smallest integers in an array?

Lecture 32 How do you find the missing numbers in an array of integers?

Lecture 33 How do you find the median in an array of integers?

Lecture 34 Create a custom ‘min’ function.

Lecture 35 Get the sum of even integers.

Section 8: Control Structures

Lecture 36 Control Structures in Swift - if then, case, loops

Lecture 37 For Loops

Lecture 38 Ternary operator, 'OR' operator, AND operator

Section 9: Benchmarking and function efficiency

Lecture 39 Basic Time Benchmarking

Lecture 40 Time/Space Complexity

Individuals looking to start a career in iOS development and want to prepare for coding interviews by mastering basic coding challenges.,Computer science students and recent graduates who are preparing for their first iOS developer job interviews and need to strengthen their problem-solving skills.,Junior developers who want to enhance their coding skills and improve their chances of success in technical interviews for more advanced positions.,Self-taught programmers who have a basic understanding of Swift and iOS development and are seeking structured practice to tackle common coding interview questions.,Professionals from other fields of software development who are transitioning into iOS development and need to familiarize themselves with typical coding challenges in iOS interviews.