Matthew Spear

Matthew Spear

Manchester
Open to Work

I am a student studying Computer Science at Manchester University, lover of coffee, music and photographer - matthewspear.co.uk

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Skills & Experience

  • Awards

    • Won StudentHackIV Manchester 2016
    • WWDC Scholarship 2016
  • Publications

    • Simply Swift Blog

191 Achievements

  • Introduction to REST
  • Recursion and Space Complexity
  • Algorithms in Code
  • Time Complexity
  • Playing a Counting Game
  • Design Principles
  • What is Product Design?
  • Dockerize a Web App
  • Managing Images and Containers
  • Building Images Using Dockerfiles
  • Fundamentals of Docker
  • Docker Use Cases
  • Swift Types
  • An Introduction to Swift Programming
  • The Unity Editor and Scene Setup
  • Introduction to Video Games
  • Testing and Debugging
  • Improving Our Code
  • Basic Android Programming
  • Creating the Screen Layout
  • Getting Started with Android
  • Modeling, Storing, and Presenting Data with Spring
  • Creating Spring Controllers and Thymeleaf Views
  • Spring Components and Configuring Our App
  • Setting Up Your Local Environment for Spring Development
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Memory Management in Swift 2
  • Extensions and Protocols
  • Value Semantics, Type Methods and Inheritance
  • Object Initialization in Swift 2
  • Properties in Swift 2
  • Deleting and Updating Data
  • Fetching Data Using Fetch Requests
  • Inserting and Saving Data Using a Context
  • Understanding the Core Data Stack
  • Error Handling in Swift 2.0
  • Paged Scrolling
  • Understanding Scroll Views
  • MVC
  • Notifications
  • KVC and KVO
  • Singletons
  • Two-stage Object Creation
  • Delegation in iOS
  • Introduction to Delegates
  • Collection Views
  • Moving from Swift to Objective-C
  • First Class Functions
  • Creating Flexible Objects Using Protocols
  • Swift 2.0 Protocols
  • Final Details
  • Django Templates
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • Model Administration
  • What a View
  • Say Hello to Django
  • Flask Templates
  • Welcome to Flask
  • Describing Data
  • Getting Started with Data Science
  • Python For Beginners
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • What Are Design Patterns?
  • Getting Started with iOS Development
  • Differentiating Between Objects
  • Class Inheritance
  • Classes
  • Complex Data Structures
  • Function Parameters
  • Functions in Swift 2.0
  • Intro to Objective-C
  • Control Flow with Conditional Statements
  • Control Flow With Loops
  • Swift Dictionaries
  • Introduction to Collections
  • Swift Operators
  • Swift Types
  • An Introduction to Swift Programming
  • Querying the Database
  • Connecting to MySQL
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • Getting Started with Java
  • Build a Grocery List Program
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Ruby Logical Operators
  • Ruby Control Structures
  • Ruby Operators
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • What is npm?
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • Computer Basics
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • How Ruby Works
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • What is Agile?
  • Simple Mobile Interface
  • Cocoapods
  • Exporting Designs
  • Sketch Features
  • Introducing Sketch
  • Displaying Our Weather Data
  • Data Modeling With Structures
  • Concurrency
  • Pulling Data From the Web
  • 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
  • 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
  • Views and View Controllers
  • Getting Started with Xcode
  • Swift Optionals
  • Swift Parameters and Tuples
  • Swift Functions
  • Control Flow
  • Collections
  • Operators
  • Types
  • Variables and Constants
  • Logo Design 101
  • Viewing a Web Page
  • Adapting Data for Display
  • DNS Basics
  • Graphic Basics
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Data Modeling
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Getting Data from the Web
  • Rebuilding from Scratch
  • Soft Skills - Psychology
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Exploring the Master-Detail Template
  • Testing and Debugging
  • Animate This (iOS7)
  • Designing your App
  • Refactoring into a Model
  • Creating a Data Collection
  • Understanding Views and View Controllers
  • Getting Started (iOS7)
  • Beyond the Basics
  • Advanced Objective-C
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Foundation Framework
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Introduction to Objective-C
  • Pointers and Memory
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Introduction to SEO
  • Fluid Foundation
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Functional Programming in C
  • Color Theory
  • Fundamentals of C
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Newbie