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.
Swift
Mike Wuerthele
Apple & Tennessee State University partner on bringing coding to historically black schools
Apple and Tennessee State University have joined together on the HBCU C2 Presidential Academy, meant to expose students at historically black colleges and universities — HBCUs — to opportunities in programming and app development.
Roger Fingas
Apple macOS Catalina, Catalyst, and SwiftUI excitement, on the AppleInsider Podcast
This week on the AppleInsider Podcast, William and Victor enthuse about Affinity Publisher, the newest desktop publishing app from Serif Labs. And while Kano PC partners with Microsoft to take on the iPad in education, Jamf reports that people in the workplace strongly prefer Macs to PCs.
Victor Marks
WWDC19: SwiftUI was the brightest star in a galaxy of new ideas
I talked to lots of developers at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, from fresh-faced scholarship winners entirely new to WWDC to an experienced veteran who reported having first attended Apple's annual dev event back in 1991. The unanimous answer to "what's the most exciting thing you saw this week?" was SwiftUI, hands down.
Daniel Eran Dilger
Live from WWDC - the Mac Pro, Pro Display XDR, iOS 13, macOS Catalina and more on the AppleInsider Podcast
This week on the AppleInsider Podcast, Daniel Eran Dilger speaks to us live from WWDC and fills us in on the news plus just what it's like being at this event.
Apple's Craig Federighi says Catalyst will boost quality of both Mac & iPad apps
Catalyst, meant to simplify porting apps between iPads and the Mac, offers the potential of improving the quality of apps on both platforms, said Apple software engineering head Craig Federighi in an podcast interview published on Thursday.
Apple's new Swift UI designed to help developers build better apps with less code
Apple's migration and evolution of Swift continues, with the company releasing the latest iteration of the technology in Swift UI.
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.
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.
Malcolm Owen
Andrew O'Hara
AppleInsider Staff
