Free Swift Resources For Uni Graduates
We want to start with the conclusion, because it’s the part that matters most — especially if you’re standing at that strange, exciting, terrifying edge between university and the real world:
Every single piece of learning content we’ve created over the last three years is now completely free. Forever. 3DaysOfSwift.com has been redesigned from the ground up, and we’re giving everything we’ve built to you — the next generation of iOS developers.
If you’re graduating soon, or you’ve just graduated, or you’re trying to build a future for yourself in tech, this message is for you.
Because we’ve been where you are. And you deserve something better than what the industry usually gives new developers.
Leaving University Is Overwhelming — We Remember That Feeling
When you leave university, something shifts inside you. Suddenly the world opens and closes at the same time. You’ve spent years studying, preparing, pushing, chasing deadlines, and imagining your future… and then — in one moment — you’re supposed to know what comes next.
Maybe you’re excited. Maybe you’re terrified. Maybe you’re confident. Maybe you’re quietly thinking, “Am I really ready?”
You’re not alone.
Every junior developer we taught — hundreds of them across multiple graduate programs — felt the same mixture of excitement and quiet panic. They wanted to build amazing things, but they were overwhelmed by the noise and complexity of iOS development. They wanted to write elegant, powerful Swift, but they had no idea where to begin. They wanted to matter — to be useful — but they were afraid of falling behind.
And here’s the truth:
Most juniors don’t fail because they’re not capable. They fail because nobody shows them the right way to begin.
That’s why 3DaysOfSwift.com exists.
We Taught Real Juniors, in Real Jobs, Every Single Week
Our team has been teaching Swift to young developers aged 20–25 for years. Not as a side hobby — but inside real graduate programs at real companies.
Every week, we saw the same patterns:
• Juniors who thought they were “bad at coding” when really they were just badly taught.
• Brilliant young people who believed they “didn’t have enough talent” when really they just didn’t have enough clarity.
• New developers who were given 100 topics to learn at once — architecture, UIKit, SwiftUI, concurrency, design patterns, testing — all before they had mastered Swift itself.
And do you know what happens when you try to learn everything at once?
You drown. You lose confidence. You begin to think the problem is you — not the system around you.
We refused to let that happen.
So we built the tools that we wish we had when we were starting.
Interactive Xcode playgrounds that explain Swift in the clearest possible way.Examples that are actually runnable, not theoretical. Breakdowns of confusing topics written in simple, human language. Games, utilities, practice environments, and real software written specifically for learning.
We didn’t create these resources to look fancy. We created them to save new developers from drowning in confusion.
And now, we’re giving them away.
Why We Decided to Make Everything Free
We tested monetisation. We tried memberships. We tried subscriptions. We tried ways to cover our hosting costs.
But every time we added a barrier — even a small one — something felt wrong.
We didn’t become senior iOS developers because someone kept knowledge behind a paywall. We became senior developers because we shared things with each other. We learned through community, collaboration, and curiosity.
And that’s the experience we want to give you.
We don’t want you to:
✘ compare yourself to others
✘ feel lost or inferior
✘ panic because you “should know more by now”
✘ think someone else’s online success means you’re failing
✘ doubt yourself every time you open Xcode
We want you to:
✔ feel supported
✔ feel seen
✔ feel capable
✔ feel like you belong in this industry
✔ feel the excitement that we felt when we first wrote Swift
And that is why everything is free.
Because sometimes — especially at the start — all you need is one person saying:
“You can do this. You deserve a place in this industry. Let us help you learn.”
A New Website for a New Generation of Developers
3DaysOfSwift.com has been redesigned with a single purpose:
To help you become a capable, confident Swift developer — without confusion, without overwhelm, and without paying for basic access to knowledge.
No logins. No subscriptions. No locked downloads. No “premium” section that hides the real value.
Just learning. Real learning.
The kind that gets you hired.
The kind that helps you solve problems.
The kind that builds confidence instead of fear.
And yes — we will continue adding more lessons, more tools, more examples, and more playgrounds. Because teaching you doesn’t drain us — it energises us.
How We’ll Support Ourselves Without Charging You
We will run short, optional, one-off paid events — architecture sessions, career workshops, advanced Swift deep dives — the kinds of sessions that genuinely change your earning potential.
We’ve watched juniors increase their salaries by tens of thousands of pounds because they understood architecture properly.
These events will help fund the free content — but they’re totally optional.
The core education stays free. Always.
This Is the Best Time in History to Become an iOS Developer
AI is the greatest companion a junior developer has ever had. It accelerates your learning. It supports your thinking. It multiplies your output.
But AI is only powerful when you are grounded in the fundamentals.
And the fundamental that matters most is:
🟠 Swift — the language of the entire platform.
If you learn Swift deeply, you will not be replaced. You will be amplified.
That is what we want for you. A career where you are confident. A skillset that is real. A future where you build things you are proud of. A life where you wake up excited to code.
You deserve that future — and we are here to help you build it.
Everything We’ve Built Is Now Free — Because This Is Your Moment
So we'll finish where we began:
Everything we’ve created is now free.Forever.And we made this decision for you — the new generation of Swift developers who are stepping into the world right now.
You are the future of this industry. You are the next wave of innovators, builders, dreamers, and creators. And you deserve clear guidance, honest explanations, and the kind of support we never had.
Welcome to the new 3DaysOfSwift.com.
Welcome to your future.
Let’s build something incredible together.
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Swift Online Course
Also, as an additional bit of help 3DaysOfSwift has a free online 3-day course written by a successful iOS Developer with almost two decades experience in iOS.
3 Day Online Swift Course (written by senior iOS Developers)
Learn Swift and enrol in our 3-day online course. We have 3 days of instructional videos pair programming with our experienced instructor and Senior iOS Developer who guides you through writing code for each main language feature of Swift. There is extra coding practice too (with no videos so it's faster).
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Swift Study Guide
Also, as an additional bit of help 3DaysOfSwift has the Swift Study Guide (listed below and to download), which is a list of Swift language features each iOS Developer should know before applying for jobs in the tech industry.
List of Swift Language Features
Download the list of topics (Swift language features) you will be required to know in order to pass an interview for an iOS Developer role.
Download
Beginner Topics
Topic 1: The Basics & Foundational Types
Topic 2: Control Flow
Topic 3: Optionals
Topic 5: Classes
Topic 6: Structs
Topic 7: Enums
Topic 8: Value Types & Reference Types
Topic 9: ARC (Automatic Reference Counting)
Mid-level Topics
Topic 10: Extensions
Topic 11: Protocols
Topic 12: Concurrency
Topic 13: Error Handling
Topic 14: Generics
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Swift Career Tips 🚀
Also, as an additional bit of help 3DaysOfSwift has outlined a few career tips that might help as you start your journey as an iOS Developer applying for jobs writing software for Apple devices.
Tips 🚀
Below we have included a few career tips to help get you started as a Junior iOS Developer working in the tech industry.
Focus on learning the Swift language itself. Most team members start their learning journey by studying Xcode and building apps. It's a lot of information and plenty to get confused about. Most of your colleagues will have many gaps in knowledge that affect their every-day anxiety with completing tasks and having it reviewed by others. Instead, why not become the one of the reviewers? Our advice is to stand out in the tech industry and if you want to stand out I would suggest becoming very knowledgable about the language itself; Every single developer will be using it and they will all be competing over Architecture and not the best use of language features. Armed with an incredible understanding of the language you will have the confidence in knowing you can maintain any existing product on the market.
Gather "Career Things" like they were collectibles in a game. This easy-to-remember and rather broad term is a great bit of advice. Too many engineers let the months go by without really taking on board many exciting projects or doing anything that wows any one. This is a terrible idea in every way. Stand out. Be the best at something (like understanding the language). When you change positions and apply to a different company you will have an interview and they'll grill you with many questions. The main bits to know are these; Your CV gets you the interview. You display your worth in the interview.
Your CV gets you the interview: Your short 2 page bullet-pointed CV is simply a list of amazing things you did to improve the team, the social element, the code quality, the income, how you increased user retention, how you added a successful feature and improved the app. You must collect career things.
You display worth in the interview: In the interview you want to fill the hour with saying similar phrases non-stop to "I was able to tweak the values and affect the income of the product simply by reducing the friction of the onboarding and providing a more seamless and pleasant user experience for the user. We now have only a 14% drop compared to most companies that have around 30% typically." Notice how you use "we" when referring to your current company in interviews. To simplify the phrase just-used, "I helped my company move forward. I improved the product, which led to an increased user experience and ultimately more profits for the company. I am a team player and I will improve your company at every opportunity possible."
Become confident in Interviews. You are now a talented Swift engineer who understands the Swift language and has a list of successful results you can pull out of the bag and discuss and any interview. You are constantly and infinitely talking about specifics of the Swift language and how cool and useful it is. You are stacking up one example after another of how you affected the results of the team and the company. You are great at telling these stories. The world is your oyster and you can be confident in your abilities as well as your choices in life.
Move company every 2 years. Ask for a £10,000 increase. When you become bored at your current job because you know too much think about moving, upgrading your job title and doubling your annual salary.
Be driven and be proud that you help keep the world moving by maintaining the digital services we all love and are constantly glued to.
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