About the Instructor

Mark Brautigam has been a software engineer since 1990. Before that, he was a hardware engineer.

Mark Brautigam worked at a startup company for several years. Working at a startup company entails a lot of work and long hours. All that work paid off several years later, when our small company (Silicon Spice) was bought by a large company (Broadcom) for a very large sum of money.

His specialty is user interface software, which is software that makes computers easy to use, safe, and enjoyable.

He has two advanced degrees from San Jose State University.

At Mission College, he completed four certificates in Graphic Design. He has mastered Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign, PHP, JavaScript, Python, Perl, Java, C#, Android app development, and iOS app development.

He has taught PHP at Mission College and C++ at Ohlone College. He currently teaches Mobile App Design and Computer Coding at Silicon Valley CTE, a technical high school. The Mobile Apps course consists of HTML, JavaScript, SVG, HTML5, CSS3, Xcode, Swift, and iOS frameworks.

You can view his  portfolio.

Why take this course?

Since 2014, the majority of internet traffic is generated from mobile devices (phones and tablets). Sales of desktop and notebook computers ...