Instructors
Charles Long
A native of Asheville, NC, Charles Long eats, sleeps and breathes technology. He has an extensive IT background which started at a very young age tinkering with, programming and building computers. He spent his teenage years working at IT firms doing computer repairs, running Ethernet cabling, fiber optics, and coding websites. His major focus became Computer Science and game design. His programming knowledge covers over 15 languages and frameworks including web front-end/back-end, desktop software and mobile application development (JavaScript/CSS/HTML, Perl, PHP, Flash, Java, C, C++, C#, Microsoft .NET, Objective C and Swift). Charles is also experienced in 3D modelling / animation and digital music creation.
Charles is an Educational Technology Director responsible for overseeing IT and network operations. Charles has served 9+ years as a mentor to the youth in US FIRST Robotics, as well as sponsored many Computer Science clubs. Charles co-founded an App Development Summer Camp in 2015. He has won three CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) awards for design work on an interactive virtual tour and educational apps.
He also enjoys basketball and video games. He is a devout Christian, and loves spending time with his wife, and their 4 daughters.
Bob Williams
Bob Williams studied at the University of Georgia where he received a degree in Journalism. He has worked as a journalist, an independent school communications director and currently manages print marketing projects for large and small businesses across the Southeast at a family-owned commercial printer outside of Asheville. Bob developed a specialty in graphic design, journalism, and coding while working in independent school communications from 2003 to 2020. Bob earned his BA degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications. He co-founded an App Development Summer Camp in 2015 with his friend and colleague, Charles Long. Having attended Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference since 2010, Bob is an experienced app developer who has taught Swift and App Development for many years. Bob’s professional recognition includes eight CASE Grand Awards for communications and marketing-related projects, and an award-winning app developed in Objective-C in 2013. He first learned Swift in 2014-15 when rebuilding the education app entirely in Swift.
In his free time, Bob enjoys playing guitar, writing songs, reading, playing golf with his Dad, morning hikes with his dog, Ginger, and spending time with his wife and two children.
Jack Hamilton
Jack Hamilton is a proud recent graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he studied Artificial Intelligence and Japanese. He got his start making games when he was 11 years old, gradually building up to making game engines and simulators in high school. He has extensive experience in app development with a particular focus in iOS game development, and is fluent in slightly fewer programming languages than C3P0's repotoire of alien dialects. He taught app development at the high school level for four years, specializing in teaching beginner-level game design.
In his free time, he mostly plays video games and makes digital music. He also enjoys baking bread, with a particular love for sourdough recipes.