Patrick Donahue

Patrick Donahue

Austin, tx
Open to Work

I am a QA Engineer looking to get into iOS development. I have a background in Game Design and Development.

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Skills & Experience

130 Achievements

  • Managing Complexity
  • Interacting With Data From the Web
  • Simple Data Structures
  • Start menu and App Icon
  • Sound Design
  • Animating and Saving Sprites
  • Designing Characters and a Scene
  • Introduction to Game Design
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Writing Online
  • Productivity
  • Presentation Skills
  • Important Skills For Professional Success
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Gradients
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • Introduction Variables
  • Custom Detail View Controller
  • Custom UITableViewCell
  • Deleting Data
  • Listing Data using NSFetchedResultsController
  • Inserting and Saving Data
  • Understanding Core Data
  • Web Typography
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • CSS Box Model
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • How UXers Think
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Functions
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Launching the Website
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Website Basics
  • Working with a Developer
  • Designing our App
  • Wireframing, Interaction Design and Planning
  • ADS Writing and Preparation
  • Introduction to UI Design
  • UIKit Dynamics
  • View Controller Transitions
  • Gestures
  • What is an API?
  • Downloading Data with NSURLSession
  • Collection Views
  • Cocoapods
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Console Processes
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Location
  • API Access
  • Blocks and Categories
  • App Settings
  • Notifications
  • iOS 5 Core Data
  • Web View
  • Appearance
  • Storyboards
  • Finishing the User Interface
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Automatic Reference Counting
  • Customizing Table View Controllers
  • Using Auto Layout and Managing the Keyboard
  • Implementing Custom Login and Sign Up Screens
  • 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
  • Testing and Debugging
  • Animate This
  • 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
  • Foundation Framework
  • Introduction to Objective-C
  • Pointers and Memory
  • Functional Programming in C
  • Fundamentals of C
  • Newbie