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● Stan is Bloc’s Director of Android Development

● He is responsible for writing and maintaining the course syllabus, recruiting and training Android mentors, and working with students during Office Hours

● Prior to Bloc, Stan worked as a mobile developer at Kwarter, Inc.

● Prior to that, he worked at Zynga on the Words With Friends franchise

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Learn the basics of programming and computing

● Learn Java from the ground up. No programming experience? Not a problem● Manage your code with Git and GitHub● Become a 1337 haxXor after you master the command line

Dive deep into Android

● Work your way from an empty project to an Evernote clone complete with notes and notebooks

● Learn fundamental programming skills such as SQL databases, MVC, network access and multi-threading

● Grok core Android concepts such as Activities, Fragments, Views, resources, animations, tablet support, rotation, etc.

Create full Android apps from scratch

We'll give you a menu of apps to choose from so you can focus on the skills and concepts that most interest you. Examples of apps you may choose to build:

● BlocSpot - A Geo-Fenced POI tracker powered by Google Maps and Google Places● Blocs - A Tetris clone built with AndEngine● BloQuery - Your very own version of Quora powered by Parse● And more!

Capstone Project: Have an app idea? Build v1 with your mentor

● Work with your mentor to define the scope of your dream project● Design, build, test, and launch your capstone app. Show off your capstone project to the

world!● Graduate from Bloc, enter our alumni community, and launch your app in the Google Play

Store.

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