Apple shines spotlight on Teacher Coding Academies

Apple is hosting a series of training sessions for teachers, intended to instruct them on how to best educate the next generation on how to use the principles of coding in everyday tasks.

Mike Wuerthele 6 years ago 0

Alongside efforts to drive coding competency, Apple releases Swift 5 with ABI compatibility, new features

This week, Apple's Swift programing language team released version 5 for use in Xcode 10.2, reaching the milestone of ABI stability— compatibility with code compiled with future versions of Swift compilers— and introducing new coding features for developers. Swift as a language is maturing alongside Apple's efforts to make code development an attainable skill for students.

Daniel Eran Dilger 7 years ago 15

Apple's WWDC 2019 scholarships have a March 24 deadline

Students and select groups of others can now apply for scholarships to attend WWDC 2019 in San Jose, but they'll have to act fast to have a chance.

Roger Fingas 7 years ago 0

Apple opens free Everyone Can Code session registrations, offers new Hour of Code guides

Marking Computer Science Education Week, Apple is expanding its Everyone Can Code program to provide more students with the ability to learn to program, by providing more resources for learning Swift and opening up thousands of free Hour of Code sessions at its Apple Store outlets for the first two weeks of December.

Malcolm Owen 7 years ago 2

Apple's Swift Playgrounds 2.2 improves discovery of third-party content, new playgrounds

Apple on Monday issued an updated version of its Swift Playgrounds app for iPad, introducing content discovery enhancements, improved touch gestures and more.

AppleInsider Staff 7 years ago 2

Swift Playgrounds could help users build controllable robots in coding lessons

Apple hopes to teach people how to use code to control robots and devices, by coming up with a concept for a system like Swift Playgrounds that guides users through putting together a kit of components, before providing tutelage on how to create a program that can use the assembled hardware.

Malcolm Owen 7 years ago 1

Apple has paid out $100 billion to developers since the App Store's inception

The App Store will be hitting a new milestone later this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed at WWDC, with payments to developers expected to pass the $100 billion barrier within the next few days.

Mike Wuerthele 8 years ago 1

Apple's Everyone Can Code Swift lessons available for blind and deaf students in fall

Starting in the fall, schools supporting students with vision, hearing or other assistive needs can use the Everyone Can Code curricula for Swift.

Mike Wuerthele 8 years ago 14

Apple's Swift developers discuss enhancements coming in Swift 4.1

Members of Apple's Swift Core team made a special appearance on the Swift Unwrapped podcast to discuss enhancements being rolled out as part of Swift 4.1 and how the company is expanding upon its efforts to engage with the community.

Daniel Eran Dilger 8 years ago 8

Apple holds first in-school coding session for visually impaired students

In an expansion to its Everyone Can Code educational initiative, Apple on Wednesday held its first in-school session for visually impaired students, helping participants write code that was then used to fly drones.

AppleInsider Staff 8 years ago 1

Apple commemorates Computer Science Education Week with new Hour of Code sessions

Apple has opened up thousands of new Hour of Code sessions at every Apple Store location between Dec. 4 and Dec 10, with new Swift Playgrounds challenge and teacher resources available to all.

Mike Wuerthele 8 years ago 3

Apple's Final Cut Pro X, Swift among the top 20 fastest growing, in demand skills

Freelancer site Upwork published a listing of the top twenty fastest growing skills of the more than 5,000 it tracks. The list cited Apple's Final Cut Pro X, Swift and Objective-C, along with nod toward new technologies in iOS 11, including Augmented Reality and Machine Learning.

Daniel Eran Dilger 8 years ago 4

Apple updates TestFlight & Swift Playgrounds for iOS 11's new tech

In conjunction with the release of iOS 11, Apple has also released new versions of TestFlight and Swift Playgrounds, redesigning the former's interface and adding an things like an Augmented Reality challenge to the latter.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 1

Sphero rolls out BB-9E, R2-D2 droid toys controllable by Apple's Swift Playgrounds

Toy producer Sphero has launched two more robots based on droids from 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi,' with the introduction of R2-D2 and BB-9E accompanied by new Swift Playgrounds content that can teach users how to control the Sphero toys by programming in Swift.

Malcolm Owen 8 years ago 6

WWDC17 Scholarship winner Kenny Batista shared his experiences at Apple's big week for developers

Nineteen year old app developer Kenny Batista was one of roughly 300 scholarship winners Apple invited to its Worldwide Developer Conference last week. He met up with us to talk about his experiences and joined the AppleInsider podcast this week from WWDC.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 4

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