Major organizations and educators in Australia are embracing Swift, the programming language pioneered by Apple upon which some of the…
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Ohio State expands Apple Swift coding and app development program to the public
Ohio State University is making its popular Apple Swift Coding and App Development certificate program available to the public…
Apple updates coding programs and resources for educators and students
Apple today announced a new set of tools to help educators teach coding to students from grade school to college. In addition to significant…
Apple Camp goes online-only for 2020 with ‘Apple Camp at Home’
This summer, Apple Camp gives kids ages 8–12 free, fun, digital programs to experience from their favorite spot at home. Apple’s easy-to-follow…
Apple releases Swift Playgrounds for Mac
Apple today released a Mac Catalyst-based app, Swift Playgrounds for Mac, which was built from the existing iPadOS Swift Playgrounds app…
Google nabs senior macOS engineer from Apple to work on Fuchsia OS
Fuchsia was created from scratch to overcome the limitations of Android…
Sharecuts is creating a community for sharing Siri Shortcuts
With the upcoming release of iOS 12, Apple is introducing a new app called Shortcuts…
Most people will never use Apple’s ‘Siri Shortcuts’
Of all the features Apple announced yesterday, Siri Shortcuts is my clear favorit…
Microsoft buys GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock
Microsoft Corp. said it reached an agreement to buy GitHub Inc., the code repository company popular…
Learning to code with Swift Playgrounds as an adult
Apple thinks it is critically important that everyone learn how to code…
The Xcode cliff: Is Apple teaching kids to code, or just teaching them about code?
Swift Playgrounds is a wonderful introduction to programming…
Apple’s Swift rises into top 10 programming languages, supplanting Objective-C
Apple’s open-source Swift has just broken into the top 10 programming languages…
70 colleges and universities in Europe adopt Apple’s Everyone Can Code initiative
Apple today announced 70 colleges and universities in Europe have adopted Everyone Can Code…
Google’s mysterious Fuchsia OS gets Apple Swift language support
Google has given its mystery operating system Fuchsia an update to support Apple’s Swift programming language…
Apple’s iPad Pro as main computer for coding
In the summer of 2017, I wanted to know what it would be like to use an iPad Pro as my main computer…
How to learn Swift, Apple’s language for creating iOS, macOS, and Linux apps
Want to create your own app? To do so, you need to learn a programming language…
Apple announces more than 30 US community colleges to offer App Development with Swift curriculum
Apple today announced the App Development with Swift curriculum will now be offered in more than 30 community college systems…
Why you should learn Apple’s open source Swift language
If you are a developer, hope to become a developer, or are thinking about learning how to build apps…
Apple’s Swift creator departs Tesla after just six months
Chris Lattner has built a solid reputation after working for 11 years at Apple…
President Trump calls for ‘sweeping transformation of the federal government’s technology’
President Donald Trump’s comments officially concluded the inaugural meeting of the White House’s American Technology Council…
Apple CEO Cook to President Trump: The U.S. should have the most modern government in the world; coding should be a requirement in every public school
Yesterday, Tim Cook was among the tech executives that sat down with President Donald Trump…
Developers who use spaces to indent aren’t just better, they’re richer, too
When it comes to indentation, there’s a right way and a wrong way…
A crucial product change was hiding in Apple’s latest launch
Apple unveiled product updates on Tuesday, including an updated iPad, new accessories and a red iPhone 7 and 7 Plus…
Apple’s impressive Swift is already one of the top 10 programming languages in the world
Apple’s new Swift programming language is being adopted even faster than anyone predicted…
San Francisco loses Apple’s developer conference to San Jose
Apple announced Thursday its annual developer conference will be held in San Jose…
Apple’s WWDC returns to San Jose, runs June 5-9, 2017
Apple today announced its 28th annual Worldwide Developers Conference will be held at the…
New Swift project head Ted Kremenek has been running the project for some time
Apple senior manager Ted Kremenek has been named as the new lead of the Swift development project…
Chris Lattner, who designed and built much of Swift, is leaving Apple
Chris Lattner designed and built most of LLVM as a graduate student….
Learning to code as a 30-year-old kid with Apple’s Swift Playgrounds
The app is Apple’s first crack at anything that even resembles an iOS-native development environment…
Ars Technica: Apple’s Swift Playgrounds slightly misses the mark for developers
HyperCard succeeded precisely because it didn’t try to teach anyone to be a programmer…
Apple’s new Swift Playgrounds for iPad a killer app for teaching code
At WWDC, Apple introduced Swift Playgrounds as a ‘revolutionary new app for iPad that makes learning Swift interactive and fun…
Apple’s free Swift Playgrounds app for iPad makes learning to code easy and fun
Apple today introduced Swift Playgrounds, an innovative new app for iPad® that makes learning to code fun and easy…
Is your kid coding yet? New building blocks teach programming basics
There’s joy to be had in seeing a child like my 5-year-old son take to it, carefully stringing together the six or seven commands…
Apple’s Swift programming language drives enterprise mobile rethink
SAP SE on Friday shared more details with CIO Journal on its Apple Inc. partnership aimed at creating…
Nearly half of OS X devs want to learn Swift
Almost a quarter (25 percent) of OS X developers don’t use file sharing in the cloud…
More developers now use Apple’s OS X than Linux
If OS adoption rates hold steady, by next year’s survey fewer than 50% of developers may be using Windows…
WWDC 2016’s star of the show: Apple’s Swift 3.0
The number of jobs requesting Swift in the last full year versus the previous full year climbed by 600 percent…
Want a developer job? Time to learn Apple’s Swift as demand skyrockets
Developers who can code in Apple’s Swift programming language have been the most in demand over the past year…
When your client demands Swift
Every day, more and more developers are being hired based on their Swift skills…
How much is Apple really using Swift?
Apple has been actively evangelizing the use of Swift since it was announced at WWDC in 2014…
Fun with Swift
Swift is certainly not a pure functional language but it’s whole lot better than Objective-C…
Apple turns retail stores into coding classrooms
Apple is using all of its worldwide network of stores as temporary classrooms this week to teach coding…