Apple Trains Chicago Teachers To Put Coding In More Classrooms (engadget.com)

Apple has unveiled a partnership with Northwestern University and public schools to help teachers bring programming and other forms of computer science into Chicago-area classrooms. "The trio will set up a learning hub at Lane Tech College Prep High School that will introduce high school teachers to Apple's Everyone Can Code curriculum," reports Engadget. "They'll also have the option to train in an App Development with Swift course to boost the number of high school-oriented computer science teachers. Teachers will also have options for in-school coaching and mentorship to make sure they're comfortable with the curriculum when they're in front of actual students."

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Re:Next: "Everybody can do brain surgery!"

[datavirtue]

I'm all for this in the hopes that it will help those few who will go on to be programmers and would have anyway. I don't expect initiatives like this to create more coders. It could possibly result less coders; in fending off those who would later pursue programming and get locked into the industry before figuring out that they don't really like it.

Re:Wrong title

[PolygamousRanchKid]

The real title should be "Apple Trains Beauhd To Put Apple Propaganda in More Slashdot Stories"

Actually . . . if you just slightly scratch the surface of this story, you'll see that it's not about teaching programming.

It's about teaching how to use Swift . . . a "programming" language that is a proprietary technology that belongs to Apple.

A programming course would have used something open and simple . . . like Python. Apple just wants to push Swift in this move.

Using a language owned by one vendor . . . kinda sorta puts you at the mercy of that vendor. Apple could easily, willy-nilly declare, "The Swift Programming Language cannot be used by Left-Handed Programmers!"

Just to be fair . . . I feel the same way about the "Go" language.

If there is one thing that we should have learned in the last 30 years, is that open languages, like C, Java and Python are very successful, because they run everywhere, which causes everyone to write in it, which causes libraries to written for whatever you need to do.

Proprietary languages never have a chance of achieving that.