Chris Howie

Chris Howie

Charlotte, NC

Learning iOS development to build applications for Education and other fun projects. Currently testing apps for an amazing company called Skookum Digital Works.

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    Skookum Digital Works

  • Job Title

    QA Tester

  • Spoken Languages

    • English

170 Achievements

  • Running Apps on a Device
  • Improving Our User Interface
  • Structs as Data Models
  • View Controllers and Views
  • Getting Started with iOS Development
  • Differentiating Between Objects
  • Class Inheritance
  • Classes
  • Complex Data Structures
  • Function Parameters
  • Functions in Swift 2.0
  • Control Flow with Conditional Statements
  • Control Flow With Loops
  • Swift Dictionaries
  • Introduction to Collections
  • Swift Operators
  • Swift Types
  • An Introduction to Swift Programming
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Simple Data Structures
  • Closures in iOS
  • Closures and Closure Expressions
  • Functions as First Class Citizens
  • Refactoring Our Code (Swift)
  • Building the Master and Detail Views (Swift)
  • Building a Music Library and Playlists (Swift)
  • Using a Navigation Controller With Segues (Swift)
  • Working With Multiple View Controllers (Swift)
  • Deploying to a Device
  • Debugging Our App
  • Improving Our User Interface
  • Using a Data Model
  • Views and View Controllers
  • Getting Started with Xcode
  • Swift Value vs Reference Types
  • Swift Properties
  • Swift Inheritance
  • Swift Classes and Objects
  • Swift Structs and their Methods
  • Swift Structs
  • Swift Enums and their Methods
  • Swift Enums
  • Swift Optionals
  • UIKit Dynamics
  • View Controller Transitions
  • Gestures
  • What is an API?
  • Downloading Data with NSURLSession
  • Collection Views
  • Custom Detail View Controller
  • Custom UITableViewCell
  • Deleting Data
  • Listing Data using NSFetchedResultsController
  • Inserting and Saving Data
  • Understanding Core Data
  • Retrieving and Viewing Data from Parse.com
  • Capturing Photo and Video Using UIImagePickerController
  • Relating Users in Parse.com
  • Using Parse.com as a Backend and Adding Users
  • Designing and Starting the App
  • Viewing a Web Page
  • Adapting Data for Display
  • Data Modeling
  • Getting Data from the Web
  • Rebuilding from Scratch
  • Exploring the Master-Detail Template
  • Refactoring Our Code (objc)
  • Building the Master and Detail Views (objC)
  • Managing Playlist Data (objC)
  • Building a Music Library Model (objc)
  • Working With Multiple View Controllers (ObjC)
  • Deploying to a Device (ObjC)
  • Debugging Our App (ObjC)
  • Improving Our User Interface (ObjC)
  • Creating a Data Model (ObjC)
  • Views and View Controllers (ObjC)
  • Getting Started with Xcode (ObjC)
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Custom Media Players
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Media Queries
  • CSS Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Gradients
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Selectors
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Sharing a Website
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Creating HTML Content
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • Functions
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • HTML First
  • Basics
  • Control Structures
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Cocoapods
  • Swift Parameters and Tuples
  • Control Flow
  • Swift Functions
  • Types
  • Operators
  • Collections
  • Testing and Debugging
  • Variables and Constants
  • Refactoring into a Model
  • Designing your App
  • Animate This (iOS7)
  • Getting Started (iOS7)
  • Understanding Views and View Controllers
  • Creating a Data Collection
  • Advanced Objective-C
  • Beyond the Basics
  • Pointers and Memory
  • Introduction to Objective-C
  • Foundation Framework
  • Fundamentals of C
  • Functional Programming in C
  • Newbie