{"id":59979,"date":"2017-07-07T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=59979"},"modified":"2017-07-05T16:32:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:32:54","slug":"apples-new-programming-course-intended-for-college-level-learners-is-available-for-free-through-ibooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/07\/07\/apples-new-programming-course-intended-for-college-level-learners-is-available-for-free-through-ibooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s new programming course &#8212; intended for college-level learners &#8212; is available for free through iBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/trendintech.com\/2017\/07\/01\/now-everyone-really-can-code-thanks-to-apples-new-college-course\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Now Everyone Really Can Code Thanks to Apple\u2019s New College Course <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from trendintech.com by\u00a0Amanda Porter<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n<div class=\"td-post-author-name\">\n<div class=\"td-author-line\"><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Almost everyone has an idea for a mobile app or two but not everyone has the skills to build a usable iPhone application from start to finish. Last fall Apple released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/swift\/playgrounds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swift Playgrounds<\/a>, an iPad application that was intended to teach the programming language Swift to the masses, but for many users the path from the basic program language learning to a full blown, usable app was unclear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At the same time, Apple started the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/everyone-can-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everybody Can Code program<\/a>, a K-12 curriculum to teach the next generation the coding skills that will be necessary in future job markets. However, neither of these programs have been a great fit for adults who want to make their iOS app development dreams come true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Now, Apple is launching a new program intended for college-level learners, extending Apple\u2019s learning courses from kindergarten age and adulthood. This new course, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2017\/05\/apple-launches-app-development-curriculum-for-high-school-community-college-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple App Development Curriculum<\/a>, is available for free through iBooks. It includes everything one needs to learn to code with Swift and build a mobile application from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now Everyone Really Can Code Thanks to Apple\u2019s New College Course &#8212; from trendintech.com by\u00a0Amanda Porter Excerpt: Almost everyone has an idea for a mobile app or two but not everyone has the skills to build a usable iPhone application from start to finish. Last fall Apple released Swift Playgrounds, an iPad application that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,45,309,269,204,195,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-computer-science","category-platforms","category-professional-development","category-programming","category-tools","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59982,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59979\/revisions\/59982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}