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  • Certiport launches first Swift certification program for fall of 2018

    IT certification firm Certiport has announced the launch of its new Swift certification program for the secondary and collegiate markets. The program, which stems from Apple’s Everyone Can Code effort, will launch its first full-year course in the fall of 2018, and is aimed at teaching students to create their own apps for Apple’s platforms using the Swift programming language. Earning the certification will then validate those students for the growing number of firms that use the Swift platform in their software programs.

    “Earning an App Development with Swift certification will give students the confidence they need to further their programming education or move on to a career in programming,” Ray Murray, Vice President, Business Development of Certiport parent company Pearson VUE said as part of the announcement. “Earning a certification endorsed by Apple shows that they have a solid grasp on the language and can apply it – today – to create innovative iOS applications. We expect this new certification to gain widespread adoption due to the popularity of the Swift programming language.”

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  • Apple Camp registration opens for Summer 2018 program

    Apple has kicked off registration for its free annual three-day Apple Camp event, in which kids between the ages of 8 and 12 can partake in hands-on projects at Apple retail locations by choosing one of three tracks and spending 90 minutes per day for three days “immersed in their chosen subject.”

    The three programs include “Coding with Sphero Robots”, “Beat Making and Songwriting with GarageBand”, and “Telling Stories with Clips” and offered the following descriptions for each program:

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  • Apple, Oprah Winfrey pen multi-year partnership deal to work towards original programming content for Apple

    It’s hard to go wrong with Oprah in your corner.

    Apple has announced that the company has partnered with Oprah Winfrey as part of its effort to create original television content, thereby adding to its growing lineup of shows.

    The company offered the following comment:
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  • WWDC: Apple highlights Swift Playground, shows teaching possibilities of program

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    Ok, this could prove extremely neat.

    Among yesterday’s announcements, Apple CEO Tim Cook highlighted Swift Playgrounds, a free new app for beginners who want to create iOS apps using Swift, Apple’s programming language.

    Swift Playgrounds features lessons to help beginners learn coding concepts such as creating functions, issuing commands, loops, and more. Apple will release new challenges, so coders can continue to learn new skills as they progress. Apple says that teachers can use Xcode to create their own content for Swift Playgrounds.

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  • Apple makes Swift programming language open source

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    Apple’s Swift programming language just went open source.

    And that can’t help but be awesome for the developer community.

    Apple has announced that Swift has gone open source, Apple releasing two additional projects for Swift in open source: the Core Libraries project, and a new Swift Package Manager project.

    The Swift Package Manager is a brand new project that strives to create a powerful, user-friendly tool to build and share Swift code. We are focused on ensuring the package manager is great at sharing source code, rather than compiled binary libraries. This project is very early in development, and will be designed and developed using Swift’s open, collaborative process.

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