David Wolber

David Wolber is a Professor at the University of San Francisco, focusing on computer science education and empowering diverse student populations through coding. He teaches the core CS course Computing, Mobile Apps, and the Web, enabling students across majors to build mobile applications. His work emphasizes accessible, visual programming tools for artists, designers, and non-traditional tech learners.

Wolber maintains DragAndDropCode.com and appinventor.org, and authored books such as Drag and Drop Code: Create iPhone and Android Apps with Thunkable and App Inventor: Create Your Own Android Apps. His Course-in-a-Box materials support educators globally, including the mobile-csp.org AP course for U.S. high schools.

His research is supported by grants from the W.M. Keck Foundation and an NSF collaboration with MIT, Wellesley College, Trinity College, and UMass-Lowell. Wolber’s initiatives aim to democratize computational literacy through creative, low-barrier coding approaches.