About the Course:
Before diving into the Swift programming language and Xcode, the tool for building iOS and OS X apps, students will be taught the fundamentals to computer science (algorithms and data structures). Students will be building three mobile apps using the skills learned. At the end of each week, students will be assigned mini projects to complete throughout the week based on the curriculum. Students will be guided with instructor code reviews.
- Basic algorithms and data structures
- Github and versioning
- Swift fundamentals
- Xcode
- Networking and third party APIs
About the Instructor:
Benny Tan, founder of Squarevibe Apps, has over four (4) years of mobile development experience. He has successfully shipped over 20 iPhone and iPad apps. In 2014, Benny started his own mobile development firm, where over 5 apps reached the AppStore Top Charts in various categories.
In 2016, Apple featured one of Benny's mobile app in the Worldwide Developer Conference for as a good example for functionality and design. In addition, he won the Zahn Social Innovation prize of 30k for developing an application that tracks and monitors family's health across various wearable devices.
Benny loves to learn and experiment with different frameworks and libraries within the iOS ecosystem.

About the Course:
Students will be taught traditional HTML and CSS to create web pages and later JavaScript and jQuery to create interactions with those pages. At the end of this course, students will be able to create their own web pages that push the limits of their newly acquired skills. Now is the time to kickstart your career as a web developer or build that website you've always wanted!
- HTML & CSS
- JavaScript fundamentals
- jQuery elements
- JSON and Ajax
- Third party APIs
About the Instructor:
Donnie D’Amato has been creating websites since 1997; nearing 20 years of experience with content creation and interactivity on the web. Co-organizer of the NYC Codepen Meetups and IxDA New York Chapter Member; his work has been featured on the front page of Awwwards, Webdesigntuts and Codepen. He currently works for a financial tech company in Chelsea designing and developing consumer-facing and internal web applications. He’s also had prior experience as an adjunct professor at the New York Institute of Technology.

Queens Tech Academy