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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. Re:The community college scene... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That would be a terrible mistake

    My community college refused to teach C/C++ because the Microsoft site license for Visual Studios expired. The dean offered to teach C/C++ on Linux and the textbook supported CLI compiling. But, no, it wouldn't be. Surveys of Silicon Valley companies indicated that C/C++ programmers required VS experience. When the site license got renewed, the lab computers were too old to run Visual Studios .NET. The dean taught C/C++ on Linux and nobody told the administration.

  2. The biggest obstacle.... by dasgoober · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The biggest obstacle isn't learning - tutorials are everywhere.
    The real obstacle is that you need an Mac to write/compile the code.