Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.

3 of 124 comments (clear)

  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.

    --
    const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
    SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
  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.

  3. 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, ...