Taylor Schimek

Taylor Schimek

Austin, TX
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Skills & Experience

231 Achievements

  • Testing and Debugging
  • Improving Our Code
  • Basic Android Programming
  • Creating the Screen Layout
  • Getting Started with Android
  • Authorization with Third Party Libraries
  • Downloading Album Artwork
  • Requesting Real Data
  • Generics and Protocols
  • Enhancing the iTunes Endpoint
  • URLs and Parameter Encoding
  • Building the User Interface
  • Modeling iTunes Search Results
  • Decoupling the Data Source
  • Sorting Contacts Into Sections
  • Static Table Views for Detail Interfaces
  • Displaying Contact Data
  • A High Level Overview
  • Dark Sky API Client
  • Downloading JSON Data Asynchronously
  • Fetching Data From the Web
  • Modeling Forecast Data
  • Error Handling and Memory Management
  • Building Standard Library Functions
  • Closure Expressions
  • First Class Functions
  • Generic Types
  • Generic Functions, Parameters and Constraints
  • Adding Sound Effects
  • Personalizing The Story
  • Refactoring Our Code
  • Creating the User Interface Programmatically
  • Creating a Story
  • Navigating Through An Adventure
  • Using the Delegate Pattern in iOS
  • The Delegate Pattern
  • Writing Great Swift
  • Access Control
  • Memory Management in Swift
  • Extensions and Protocols
  • Value Semantics, Type Methods and Inheritance
  • Object Initialization
  • Properties
  • A History Lesson
  • Displaying Additional Views
  • Using the Vending Machine
  • Loading Data From a Resource
  • Modeling an Interface
  • Running Apps on a Device
  • Improving Our User Interface
  • Structs As Data Models
  • View Controllers and Views
  • Getting Started with iOS Development
  • Error Handling
  • Creating Flexible Objects Using Protocols
  • Protocol Basics
  • Objects and Optionals
  • Introduction to Optionals
  • Introduction to Enumerations
  • Differentiating Between Objects
  • Class Inheritance
  • Classes in Swift
  • Complex Data Structures
  • Adding Power to Functions
  • Functions in Swift
  • Control Flow With Conditional Statements
  • Control Flow With Loops
  • Dictionaries in Swift
  • Introduction to Collections
  • Swift Operators
  • Swift Types
  • An Introduction to Swift Programming
  • Why React Native
  • Component Lifecycle
  • Designing Dataflow
  • Stateful Components
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Django Authentication
  • Security and Customization
  • Make the REST Framework Work for You
  •  Create a Web Presence on GitHub
  •  Working on a Team
  • Working By Yourself
  • Hello, GitHub!
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Setting Your Course
  • Careers in the Tech Industry
  • Self-Assessment
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Building Forms with Bootstrap
  • Using Bootstrap Components
  • Responsive Layouts with the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • Page Layout with the Float Property
  • Controlling Layout with CSS Display Modes
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • RESTful Django
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • DOM Traversal
  • DOM Manipulation
  • Events
  • Hello, jQuery!
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • Customizing Class-based Views
  • Classy Views
  • Detail View
  • List View
  • The Django Admin
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Total Control
  • Basic ORM Usage
  • Same Old ORM
  • Inlines and Media
  • Django Model Forms
  • Django Models
  • Django Forms
  • Building Custom Filters
  • Building Custom Tags
  • Template Tags and Filters
  • Test Time!
  • Final Details
  • Django Templates
  • Model Administration
  • What a View
  • Say Hello to Django
  • Creating Reports
  • Python Regular Expressions
  • Charts and Tables
  • Exporting
  • Cleaning Data
  • Describing Data
  • Getting Started with Data Science
  • Covering Your Bases
  • Be Assertive!
  • What Is Testing?
  • Gettin' CRUD-y With It
  • Our Diary App
  • Meet Peewee
  • Timezones
  • Buggy Logs
  • Cleaner Code
  • Math Quiz App
  • Dates and Times
  • Hack-n-Slash
  • Python Inheritance
  • Python Objects
  • Dungeon Game 2
  • Python Sets
  • Python Tuples
  • Python Dictionaries
  • Python Slices
  • Python Lists
  • Letter Game App
  • Number Game App
  • Shopping List App
  • Logic in Python
  • Python Data Types
  • Python For Beginners
  • Meet Objects
  • Perfecting the Prototype
  • Using your New Tools
  • Getting Started with Java
  • The Internet
  • Subqueries
  • Set Operations
  • Joining Table Data with SQL
  • Table Relationships
  • Database Keys
  • Database Normalization
  • Date and Time Functions
  • Aggregate and Numeric Functions
  • Working with Text
  • Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • Getting to Know PHP
  • PHP on the Web
  • Daily Exercise Program
  • Unit Converter
  • Adding a New Web Page
  • Make It Beautiful with CSS
  • HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications
  • Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS
  • Newbie