Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about Swift curriculum during Austin tech incubator visit
Apple CEO Tim Cook made an appearance at the Capital Factory tech incubator in Austin, Tex., on Friday, using the occasion to make the announcement that over 30 U.S. community college systems will start to offer Apple's 'App Development with Swift' curriculum in the 2017-2018 school year.
On his visit to Capital Factory, Cook confirmed the Austin Community College District was one of the college systems adopting the Swift curriculum. "Every student deserves the best we can give them," Cook told the audience.
Cook took a moment in the speech to pay a compliment to Austin Mayor Steve Adler, also in attendance, thanking him for his leadership. Claiming he and Apple shares Mayor Adler's values in diversity, the environment, and development, Cook said it was an honor to share the stage with him.
The curriculum is meant as a way to teach people who do not have any experience programming to produce their own fully-functional iOS app. The course centers around Swift, the open-source Apple-created language that is chiefly used to produce software on its own platforms.
Cook's trip to Austin, discovered on Thursday by an anonymous tip, follows after the CEO's visit to Des Moines, Iowa, announcing a $1.3 billion project to construct a 400,000 square foot data center. The tip also suggested there may be more announcements later today, including one relating to augmented reality (AR) projects.
On his visit to Capital Factory, Cook confirmed the Austin Community College District was one of the college systems adopting the Swift curriculum. "Every student deserves the best we can give them," Cook told the audience.
Cook took a moment in the speech to pay a compliment to Austin Mayor Steve Adler, also in attendance, thanking him for his leadership. Claiming he and Apple shares Mayor Adler's values in diversity, the environment, and development, Cook said it was an honor to share the stage with him.
The curriculum is meant as a way to teach people who do not have any experience programming to produce their own fully-functional iOS app. The course centers around Swift, the open-source Apple-created language that is chiefly used to produce software on its own platforms.
Cook's trip to Austin, discovered on Thursday by an anonymous tip, follows after the CEO's visit to Des Moines, Iowa, announcing a $1.3 billion project to construct a 400,000 square foot data center. The tip also suggested there may be more announcements later today, including one relating to augmented reality (AR) projects.
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I think the point is to use app development as a launching point for getting kids interested in software development (and STEM in general perhaps), not that the App Store so desperate for content that they are recruiting child labor.
recognizing this is what makes a good hire and a good hiring manager. in my opinion too many places just want to issues tests and trick story problems, all artificial measures of what we’re looking for but are easier to administer. especially by socially inept dev teams.
Joel on Software is a good ref for how not to be this way. i give it to all of my teams:
https://www.amazon.com/Joel-Software-Occasionally-Developers-Designers/dp/1590593898
As the platform expanded so did the bugs. Some argued that Apple was becoming too corporate and staffed by inept managers who didn't understand why more lines of
code was a lousy measure for employee productivity.
You can read all about it here from the people in the room:
https://www.folklore.org/
Then I recommend you read Joel on Software. Smart people, who get things done.
(full disclosure: i'm a fortune 100 enterprise developer, manager, and former dot com'er who has no com sci background. but but but...)
Unfortunately, he no longer has time to write his novel…
You don't need a formal computer science education to be a top-flight developer. If I'm looking for a free starter, I'd be more interested in what the person does in their spare time, and I'd probably pick a Physics bod over a computer scientist.
Oh, and Scrivener is rock-solid stable.
Jesus, is that a real picture??
That is the face of man who really wants to be somewhere else.