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Apple Wants To Turn Community College Students Into App Developers (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on from the app-ecosystem dept.

Ina Fried, writing for Axios: Apple already offers a variety of tools to help school kids learn the basics of coding. Now, it aims to give older students what they need to become full-fledged app developers. On Wednesday the company is releasing, for free, the curriculum for a year-long course on how to write apps for the iPhone. The effort, though available to all, is aimed at community college students and Apple is working with six districts around the country, with the first classes to start this summer and fall. The courseware teaches students how to create apps using Apple's Swift programming language.

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  1. Only apps can app apps! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Modern app appers know that ONLY apps can app apps, so these appers will be apping appy app apps while apping other apps!

    Apps!

  2. Sturgeon's Revelation by Chas · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Oh boy! So there will be that many more (Cr)apps!

    Because we absolutely MUST stay in compliance with Sturgeon!

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    1. Re:Sturgeon's Revelation by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      There are millions of apps for iOS. Apple understands that you need large numbers of developers churning out apps until one goes viral and makes them Apple of money. And better that it is on iOS first, of course.

      They are basically setting up monkeys with typewriters, hoping one accidentally creates the next Flappy Bird.

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  3. Re:The community college scene... by jellomizer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A high school degree: You get Work
    A 2 year community college degree: You get a Job
    A 4 Year college degree: You get a Career
    A Masters degree: You get a Profession
    A Doctorate degree: You get a Calling

    Most Software development jobs, doesn't need or particularly want people who are too skilled in the area, because they are too much trouble, too much back talking, and too expensive.
     

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  4. They are damatically missing developpers by Vapula · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With the rise of Android, we see iPhone/iPads becoming the minor platform. More and more developpers start to think Android before Apple...

    And with the developpers fleeing that highly proprietary platform, the ecosystem is slowly becoming less and less attracting for new developpers... spiralling to iPhone becoming eventually irrelevant

    So they are trying to mass recruit developpers by teaching an useless language to as many people as possible...

    Time spent on learning Swift is not spent in learning C, C++, Java, Python, PHP, Javascript, ...