For about three weeks working for the company, I have been dealing with the project that has been developed by other programmers before. Looking through the lines of code, I could observe how lack of solid architecture made the project to be extremely difficult to manage and discouraging for a newly added member like me to understand the flow and make meaningful contribution for significant progress of the project.
After a week of struggling with the unclear organization of the project, I rearranged some part of the code. Though it wasn’t done for the whole project, re-structuring classes and flow of method calling based on MVC convention did bring some sense to the project and allowed me to get on the track quite earlier than how I worried it to be.
Probably, it was because iOS development is usually done by only Xcode and only one kind of SDK, and the most of recommended practices are already established firmly and shared to the public. They are clear enough for an intermediate programmer like me to apply on the project.
With this experience of re-organizing the project and being benefited by it, I am so much motivated than ever to master software architecture, design patterns, and other important practices. For a software development project to succeed, help of an architect is necessary and I wish to be the one who is truly helpful.
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