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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[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.