David Wolber

David Wolber is a leader in teaching beginners how to code. His focus is empowering artists, designers, kids, women, men, humanity majors, business students—makers of all types—to add coding to their creative arsenals.

Wolber's newest book, Drag and Drop Code, teaches beginners how to code iPhone and Android apps with the Thunkable visual blocks language. His site draganddropcode.com provides video lessons that accompany the book. His previous book, App Inventor 2: Create your own Android Apps, was authored along with App Inventor lead Hal Abelson and Google developers Ellen Spertus and Liz Looney. That book, and Dave’s award-winning, video-based site appinventor.org, have introduced thousands of new app builders to the world of code.

David is a professor of computer science at the University of San Francisco, where he introduces USF students from across the university to coding and computer science. His course-in-a-box teaching materials at appinventor.org have served as a template for hundreds of courses at the K-12 and university levels, as well as for the Mobile Computer Science Principles (mobileCSP.org) Advanced Placement (AP) curriculum.