It won't be any different, because as I said I'm just building it to learn about the poorly documented APIs that Apple makes available to developers as well as how to take advantage of modern Swift features such as structured concurrency, and will only publish it to my GitHub profile as an example to others once I'm done since I couldn't find any examples myself. The final app that I will build and actually publish to the App Store will use some of the code from the video conferencing app, but it will broadcast video instead of being peer to peer, and video conferencing won't even be its central feature.

At the moment I'm nearly done with the video conferencing app, but am trying to fix a bug causing an annoying audio distortion involving resampling between sample rates where the higher rate is not divisible by the lower rate such as when resampling from 48000Hz to 22050Hz. I'd also like to implement audio feedback cancellation that does not involve simply cutting the audio of one of the sides when the other is talking, but will only do so if it's not too complex as the intent is to demonstrate how to use Apple's APIs rather than show coding prowess.

None, they are purely text-based games played through the command line.

Hi there! You’re so welcome.

So, my work does know about my low vision. Funnily enough, they hired me when I was “normal” and then a month later I had a retinal detachment and I had to take an entire month off to recover and then when I came back I was obviously different because I had to wear an eye patch at work, my mobility is poor (and everyone can tell!) So it’s actually been a new thing for me to navigate this transition, with coworkers etc observing the changes in real time but everyone wants me to succeed and is very empathetic.

Some specific ways in which coworkers show support:
- when we pair program a colleague point to the smallest text on their screen and asks me if I can read it. (Pair programming is when two developers work together. Some jobs are pair programming only so keep an eye out for a workplace that mentions this, because it’s great if you can find that!) If I can’t see the text we switch to my screen because I use large text and high contrast tools.
- my tech lead (that means the programmer above me who guides our team) will do the CSS changes for me since I can’t tell color easily now. CSS is a language people use to make things look nice on the web.

In my experience tech has been the most accepting industry of me and the ways I was different even before I had eye issues and it is a great industry.

When I started my coding journey, the first language I learned was Ruby. The second language was JavaScript. I would recommend either of these languages to a new programmer but I especially recommend Ruby and Ruby on Rails (a popular web programming framework) for beginners. The person who designed Ruby did it to make engineers happy, so it really is a nice first language. I learned Ruby at a bootcamp but there are many good free resources online. I’d like to plug this website in particular:

https://grow.google

It is a website made by Google with online (and free!) courses for getting a certificate. Google and other big companies are rolling out these certificate programs so that people without four year computer science degrees can join the high paying tech industry. I don’t have a computer science degree myself.

Anyway, I wish you so much luck in your coding journey and my DMs are open if you have any questions. :)

I started learning coding in general and then arced towards systems and programming languages stuff as I was learning to code and going through undergrad. The specific job I'm in was the result of trying to get a PhD and ending up with a Master's and some connections.

For example I had to make an application that connects to a database. The application had to add data to the database, remove data, edit data and the user should have been able to search for data. Another example was making user interfaces with some underlying code, for example a normal calculator, working with fibunacci and displaying it to the user... the list kind of goes on.