Courses
Instructional Design

Kotlin Bootcamp for Programmers

• I am most proud of the Kotlin Bootcamp for Programmers Udacity course (Promotional Video on YouTube). which I imagined, designed, wrote, and co-produced, working with an expert Kotlin developer and a team from Udacity. I had a vision for this course and persisted until it became reality, on schedule. We also built an aquarium in the studio for this course!

• As of summer 2020, the course has over 125K enrollments and an exceptional completion rate of more than 30%.

• Following up, I also led the creation of a text version, called a codelab in Google lingo, for the developers.android.com website.

Advanced Android in Kotlin

• The most challenging course I ever worked on was Advanced Android in Kotlin for Udacity. The course is huge and involved a team of experts, stakeholders, and reviewers, all of them independent thinkers with great ideas. Check out the Promotional video!

• I created, wrote, coded, and filmed the Advanced Graphics lessons, including 110 pages of script and 140 slides for the videos.

• I also reviewed, tested, and improved every single line of code and script for this course huge course.

• As of fall 2020, the course has over 30K enrollments.

• We also created a text version of the course.

Android Kotlin Fundamentals

• Udacity course for developer who want to learn Android Development in Kotlin (Promotional Video).

• text version on developers.android.com

Android Basics in Kotlin

• Android Basics in Kotlin is an Android course for students new to programming, Kotlin, and Android.

• This course includes text tutorials (codelabs) as well as exercises, quizzes, and videos.

• I always wanted to teach programming to beginners, so for this course, I created the lessons that focus on teaching Kotlin, such as this Introduction to Kotlin.

• I also reviewed, edited, and tested all other lessons, scripts, and quizzes up to and including Unit 2.

Android Fundamentals and Advanced Android courses in Java

• The Google Training Team's most ambitious projects were Google’s first Android Fundamentals and Advanced Android courses in Java.

• I was the content lead for a team that created Udacity, text, and in-classroom versions of the courses.

• The course was built to become part of university curriculum in India. So, we travelled to India and taught the course live to University professors as a train the trainer experience.

Android Performance

• I joined this Android Performance Google and Udacity course as it was already being developed but failed to progress. I worked on the course and wrestled with the production team to get the course completed and published. I learned that it only takes one person on a large team to to slow things to a crawl. My job was to wade through the molasses and move the course forward.

• I wrote and edited scripts for Colt McAnlis, the expert and lead of this effort, and worked closely with the screen caster to produce recordings.

• As a side-effect of helping create this course I also created a Medium article series including Exceed the Android Speed Limit and Performance Tuning.

• Another side effect was that I led and wrote most content for a series of Android Performance documentation on developers.google.com. Most of this work has been significantly updated or removed since Android and performance management have evolved.

• Co-wrote, edited, and improved scripts for Android Performance Patterns. This evolved into Script Club, where I worked on hundreds of video scripts for Developer Advocates.

Cloud Endpoints Partner Training

• This training consisted of slide decks and sample code created for Cloud Endpoints.

• This training was taken offline because it became outdated. The value of listing it here is to show that I didn't just do Android.

Power Searching with Google

• Power Searching with Google (I had no idea this was still online). Co-developer and contributor. Editor of all things.

• There was a second course, Advanced Power Searching with Google. I can only find this reference.