Apple Announces New Swift Coding Initiative for Nearly 500,000 Students in City of Chicago


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apple on tuesday announced working bring coding opportunities half million students in city of chicago, through expansion of company's everyone can code program.

swift-centered coding initiative has been designed in collaboration mayor's office of chicago, chicago public schools, city colleges of chicago, local businesses , non-profit organizations.

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starting in spring, chicago public schools , city colleges of chicago expand can code curriculum , materials, while city colleges of chicago offer the app development swift curriculum first time, helping students build skills around coding , app development.

chicago public schools offer new swift coding clubs, according apple, bringing coding education after-school programs. clubs aim guide students through key coding concepts, introduce them swift , walk them through app design , prototyping project.

several businesses operating in area making volunteer opportunities available chicago-based employees support students. companies include ge transportation, ibm, jellyvision, lextech, mcdonald's, rush university medical center, ulta beauty, , united airlines.

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over last 2 years, apple has promoted swift programming language ideal keen code has no previous computing experience. in 2016, released swift playgrounds, app aimed @ teaching both children , adults how code through simple interactive coding exercises, meant make learning code "easy , fun" everyone.

article link: apple announces new swift coding initiative 500,000 students in city of chicago
 

i'm 3rd year computer science student , know java , c++ , have started dipping toes swift. recommend students learn java or c language first. swift dumbed down far syntax goes you'll have hard time going swift c language.

when go c language swift understand shortcuts swift taking you/what it's doing in background don't have code. can't same going swift c language or java.
 


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