Hi, I’m Noah.
I am an iOS Developer specializing in Swift. I enjoy skydiving, comic books, and anything superhero-adjacent. I have 7 years experience developing in object oriented languages such as Swift, JavaScript, and C. You can view my iOS-specific app portfolio below.
Work Experience
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Code For Fun: Mentor
Taught programming fundamentals and debugging to high school students.
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Stevens Institute:
Autonomously developed solutions for varying hardware & software issues whie attending the university.
Below is a list of applications I’ve developed using Swift. Each section will contain the app’s description, preview, things I learned, and a link to the source code - Said link will also hold further instruction on how to download and use it on your own device. Happy browsing!
App Portfolio: Before You Begin
APP PORTFOLIO
ComixOrganizer
About the app:
Keep track of your reading with this simple app that lists each issue under a selected title by release date and allows the user to check off completed issues. Basically a todo list app for comics ported over from the Comic Vine API.
Now using async/await & UserDefaults instead of completion handlers & Realm, respectively.
Things I learned:
How to use the serial-like nature of async await & Tasks in place of concurrent completion handlers
Where to appropriately place delegate protocol methods
Accessing nested API information using Enums & Coding Keys
Identifying and resolving hash collisions (diffable datasource)
Using Comparable protocol to persist progress by matching issues imported from API to a UserDefault key containing all checked items.
Technology Used:
Swift
Xcode
ComicVine API
SwiftNovice
About the app:
A bootcamp in your pocket! SwiftNovice guides the user through prerequisite courses that got me to where I am today before providing them a set of real world projects via codementor.io. I plan to create/include a slack channel to aid in completing said projects soon.
IMPORTANT:
This app must be run only AFTER the SwiftNoviceServerMk2 is ran. It is meant to run parallel to this server so that the data it depends on imports correctly. See link labeled view server below before running this project.
Things I learned:
How to create my own 'GET' API through server side Swift using Vapor
Deeper understanding of generics and variadic parameters in action
How to use inout parameters
allows mutation of a constant via a pointer ‘*’
Presentation controller [.medium()] detents
Unit testing
Deeper understanding of parent to child view controller relationships
Sign in status persistence and resetting root view controllers between signed in & signed out states
Technology Used:
Swift
Xcode
Vapor - server side Swift API
Codementor.io
CityMapper
About the app:
A simple geo-location app that showcases Swift powerful MapKit technology to annotate different capitals of certain locations. Each annotation contains an info button that links to each locations’ respective wiki page.
Things I learned:
How to use MapKit
MKMapView
MKAnnotation
MKPinAnnotationView
CLLocationCoordinate2D
Technology Used:
Swift
Xcode
MapKit
WebView
GHFollowers
About the app:
An app that lists the followers of a specific github account. Now with a navigation path back to the User Info card from the Follower List.
Disclaimer:
This was built alongside an instructor as part of a guided course then later expanded on by my own efforts with extra features and more efficient background processes: See the README and project notes in the App Delegate file for insights & differences from credited sources.
Things I learned:
MVC architecture alternative
How to use diffable data source for searchable custom cells
UserDefaults to store user settings
Efficient / Consistent code base formatting
Technology Used:
Swift
Xcode
Github API
NetflixClone
About the app:
A clone of the popular Netflix app. Not a one to one in terms of functionality, but the data fetching works as expected. There is also a search feature and video player powered by YouTube embedded to show trailers for each selected title.
Disclaimer:
This was built alongside an instructor as part of a guided course then later expanded on by my own efforts with extra features and more efficient background processes: See the README and project notes in the App Delegate file for insights & differences from credited sources.
Things I learned:
How to use completion handlers
Data fetching using an API
MVVM Architecture
Core Data / Context
Technology Used:
Swift
Xcode
themoviedb API