Apple to host 'Hour of Code' at retail stores worldwide in December

Apple on Thursday announced that it will collaborate with Seattle-based Code.org for the second year in a row, hosting the Hour of Code — Â designed to introduce the basics of computer programming — Â and other events at its retail stores.

The events will take place at brick-and-mortar Apple outlets during Computer Science Education Week, which runs from Dec. 8 to Dec. 14. The Hour of Code will take place on Dec. 11, with other workshops scheduled throughout the week.

Apple's Regent Street location in London, for instance, will host a talk from NaturalMotion CEO Torsten Reil on Dec. 9. Reil, whose company produced Clumsy Ninja, will discuss "why he started coding and the thrill of developing next-generation mobile games that wow people with creativity and technology."

Other participants include FitPort developers Hideko Ogawa and Takako Horiuchi in Tokyo, Touchpress cofounder and chief creative officer Theodore Gray in Chicago, and Hopscotch chief Jocelyn Leavitt in New York, among others.

Apple also hosted the Hour of Code at its stores in 2013.

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SpamSandwich 32917 comments · 19 Years

About 9 years ago

Nice! On the other hand, I've tried for years to program efficiently and I am an absolute disaster. If I can't solve the problem in years, an hour certainly won't help. ????

dasanman69 12999 comments · 15 Years

[quote name="SpamSandwich" url="/t/183722/apple-to-host-hour-of-code-at-retail-stores-worldwide-in-december#post_2647549"]Nice! On the other hand, I've tried for years to program efficiently and I am an absolute disaster. If I can't solve the problem in years, an hour certainly won't help. ????[/quote] Maybe you'll have a coding epiphany if you go. ;)