Taylor Smith
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Taylor Smith

Techdegree Graduate

Huntington Beach
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Skills & Experience

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  • MVC
  • Notifications
  • KVC and KVO
  • Singletons
  • Two-stage Object Creation
  • What Are Design Patterns?
  • Intro to Unit Testing 2
  • Introduction to Unit Testing
  • Deleting and Updating Data
  • Fetching Data Using Fetch Requests
  • Inserting and Saving Data Using a Context
  • Understanding the Core Data Stack
  • Transitions, Gestures and More
  • Show Me the Data
  • Introduction to CollectionViews
  • Objective-C in Action
  • Intermediate Topics in Objective-C
  • The Objective-C Mindset
  • Basic Types, Structures and Syntax
  • Moving from Swift to Objective-C
  • Adding Reviews and a Map
  • Retrieving Restaurant Details Using Operations
  • Simplifying Networking Code
  • Obtaining a Location Fix
  • Authorization with Third Party Libraries
  • Building Your Resume
  • Downloading Album Artwork
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • Requesting Real Data
  • 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
  • Generics and Protocols
  • Generic Types
  • Generic Functions, Parameters and Constraints
  • Visual Format Language
  • Auto Layout in Code
  • Trait Collections
  • Inequalities, Content and Priorities
  • The Constraint Equation
  • A History Lesson
  • 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
  • Displaying Additional Views
  • Using the Vending Machine
  • Loading Data From a Resource
  • Modeling an Interface
  • Error Handling
  • Creating Flexible Objects Using Protocols
  • Protocol Basics
  • Objects and Optionals
  • Introduction to Optionals
  • Introduction to Enumerations
  • 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 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
  • Swift Structs and their Methods
  • Swift Structs
  • Swift Enums and their Methods
  • Swift Enums
  • Displaying Our Weather Data
  • Data Modeling With Structures
  • Concurrency
  • Pulling Data From the Web
  • Deploying to a Device
  • Debugging Our App
  • Improving Our User Interface
  • Using a Data Model
  • Views and View Controllers
  • Getting Started with Xcode
  • Swift Optionals
  • Swift Parameters and Tuples
  • Swift Functions
  • Control Flow
  • Collections
  • Operators
  • Types
  • Variables and Constants
  • Newbie