AppleInsider Staff
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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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 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. ;)
[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] My problem is that I'm usually too efficient.
My problem is that I'm not a coder.
My problem is that I hate coding.