Apple's Swift being taught across Europe in EU Code Week
The European Union's annual Code Week is working with Apple's Swift language and Everyone Can Code initiative to introduce programming to teachers and students of all ages and abilities.
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William Gallagher
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
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
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
Apple's Swift Playgrounds 3.0 enters first public beta
Apple on Tuesday issued the first beta of Swift Playgrounds 3.0, the next version of its iPad-based teaching tool for the Swift programming language.
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
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
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.
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.
