Apple launches new Everyone Can Code, Develop in Swift resources

Apple on Thursday announced a new set of tools and resources for teachers and students as part of its Swift coding education initiatives.

Mike Peterson 5 years ago 4

Apple highlights trio of Swift Student Challenge winning projects

Apple on Thursday once again highlighted some of the winning projects from its annual Swift Student Challenge.

Mike Peterson 6 years ago 0

Swift Student Challenge winners show off WWDC jacket, pin set

The 350 winning students in Apple's Swift Student Challenge coding contest are starting to get their prizes, a WWDC 2020 jacket, and the annual set of Apple icon pins.

William Gallagher 6 years ago 1

Catalyst version of Swift Playgrounds launches on Mac App Store

Apple's Swift Playgrounds, an app that teaches you how to code via small game like experiences, has launched on the Mac App Store for the first time.

Wesley Hilliard 6 years ago 4

Apple hosts 'Today at Apple' coding labs for Computer Science Education Week

From December 1 to December 15, curious coders can head to their local Apple Store to learn the basics of coding and programming.

Amber Neely 6 years ago 0

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.

William Gallagher 6 years ago 5

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

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 6 years ago 0

Podcast

Apple macOS Catalina, Catalyst, and SwiftUI excitement, on the AppleInsider Podcast

Victor Marks 7 years ago 0

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 7 years ago 19

Podcast

Live from WWDC - the Mac Pro, Pro Display XDR, iOS 13, macOS Catalina and more on the AppleInsider Podcast

Victor Marks 7 years ago 3

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.

Roger Fingas 7 years ago 11

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.

Mike Wuerthele 7 years ago 15

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

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