Apple Launches App Development Curriculum for High School & Community College Students
May 24 2017 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Innovative Full-Year Curriculum Now Available on the iBooks
Store
Apple® today launched a new app development curriculum designed
for students who want to pursue careers in the fast-growing app
economy. The curriculum is available as a free download today from
Apple's iBooks Store℠.
App Development with Swift is a full-year course designed by
Apple engineers and educators to teach students elements of app
design using Swift™, one of the world’s most popular programming
languages. Students will learn to code and design fully functional
apps, gaining critical job skills in software development and
information technology.
Starting this fall, six community college systems serving nearly
500,000 students across the country will be among the first to
offer the innovative curriculum. At many campuses, local businesses
will also offer students mentoring and internships.
“We’ve seen firsthand the impact that coding has on individuals
and the US economy as a whole. The app economy and software
development are among the fastest-growing job sectors in America
and we’re thrilled to be providing educators and students with the
tools to learn coding,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Community
colleges play a critical role in helping students achieve their
dreams, and we hope these courses will open doors for people of all
ages and backgrounds to pursue what they love.”
The curriculum will be offered by the Alabama Community College
System, Columbus State Community College, Harrisburg Area Community
College, Houston Community College, Mesa Community College and San
Mateo Community College District, among others. Select high schools
across the country will also be teaching the App Development with
Swift curriculum starting this fall. Houston Community College is
opening an iOS Coding and Design School that will teach Apple’s new
curriculum.
“The world calls Houston a knowledge capital because of the
incredible concentration of ideas and innovation in our great
city,” said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. “Apple’s investment in
our community with the launch of the app development curriculum
will tap into the creativity of our students, inspire new
possibilities and foster our culture of technological
transformation.”
“We are focused on preparing our students for life in a global
and technological society, and in 2017 that means making sure our
students have access to a state-of-the-art coding curriculum,” said
Houston Community College Chancellor Cesar Maldonado. “We are
thrilled Apple is offering this incredible opportunity to advance
student learning, which will especially help us bridge the gap in
computer science training for minorities and women. We can’t wait
to see what these students will do and already have local
businesses offering mentoring and internship opportunities.”
App Development with Swift is an extension of Apple’s existing
K-12 Everyone Can Code curricula which offer everyone the power to
learn, write and teach coding. Swift is Apple’s powerful and
intuitive programming language that gives developers the freedom
and capabilities they need to create the next generation of
cutting-edge software. Popular apps including Airbnb, KAYAK,
TripAdvisor, Venmo and Yelp are all created with Swift. In addition
to over 1 million downloads of Swift Playgrounds™, there have been
over 430,000 downloads of the additional Everyone Can Code
materials and over 1,000 schools across the US plan to teach with
Everyone Can Code materials in the fall.
Earlier this month, Apple announced the creation of the Advanced
Manufacturing Fund focused on creating jobs in the US throughout
our supply chain, with an initial investment of $1 billion. The new
Swift coding curriculum is another example of Apple’s commitment to
economic development and will help create even more career
opportunities for students across the country. Apple now supports 2
million jobs across all 50 states, including more than 1.5 million
jobs attributable to Apple’s app economy.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS —
provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower
people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple
Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000 employees
are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving
the world better than we found it.
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