Leading European Technical Colleges Adopt Apple’s Everyone Can Code Initiative
January 19 2018 - 3:01AM
Business Wire
Apple® today announced 70 colleges and universities in Europe
have adopted Everyone Can Code, a comprehensive program designed by
Apple to help everyone learn to build mobile apps. These colleges
and universities are adopting Apple’s App Development with Swift
curriculum, helping to create opportunities for all students and
equipping them with the skills they need to pursue careers in the
booming app economy.
Education institutions in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain,
the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Belgium, the
Czech Republic, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland and Portugal will offer
App Development with Swift to prepare their students for future
careers in app development. The full-year course was designed by
Apple engineers and educators to teach coding and app design to
students of all levels and backgrounds.
— Harlow College in the UK will offer App Development with Swift
to its 3,000 students — including adults seeking to regain
employment — in order to teach them coding skills and prepare them
for app development careers.
— The Chair for Applied Software Engineering at the Technical
University of Munich in Germany focuses on using Swift™ and ARKit
to teach hands-on software engineering and entrepreneurial business
skills to its students. They work closely with local businesses,
including BMW and Siemens to ensure learning is relevant to today’s
workplace.
— Mercantec Vocational College in Denmark is a publicly funded
vocational school, offering its 3,000 students the opportunity to
learn coding before moving on to careers with local businesses.
— Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen in the Netherlands attracts
a range of students looking for both undergraduate degrees and
short vocational courses. Its 34,000 students now have the ability
to learn to code through App Development with Swift.
“Coding is an essential skill for today’s workforce, and through
Everyone Can Code, we’re giving people around the world the power
to learn, write and teach coding,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.
“Since launching Everyone Can Code two years ago, we’ve seen
growing excitement for the initiative from schools around the
world, who are increasingly incorporating the curriculum into their
classrooms.”
“At Harlow College, we recognise that learning to code will help
students prepare for a technological future. It develops their
approach to problem solving, logic and reasoning, as well as
reinforcing key mathematical skills,” said Karen Spencer, Principal
of Harlow College. “Everyone Can Code demonstrates how any student
can code by providing a unique and innovative environment for
learning.”
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.
The technology sector is one of the fastest-growing industries
across Europe, and computing and informatics professionals are in
high demand. The app economy has generated 1.36 million jobs in
Europe. Since the launch of the App Store®, Apple has paid out
nearly $18 billion to developers across Europe.
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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