We are very excited to announce that we have completed our video resources for the Learn to Code series of activities for the Swift Playgrounds Computer Science curriculum from Apple. Link: Swift Playgrounds Videos The videos linked here are an excellent resource for the curriculum. We find that our students who Read more…
Swift Playgrounds for iPad and the Learn to Code curriculum are fantastic at introducing students to almost all of the major components of computer science: abstraction, composition, procedural thinking and computational thinking. There is one aspect of computer science that is missing from this list, however. The Apple curriculum delays Read more…
Our students had a particularly challenging homework assignment this week: Corners of the World in the Learn to Code 2 Collection. We all succeeded in getting Byte to complete the activity, but the code was not the most elegant in many cases. When we convened on Tuesday, we decided to Read more…
The representation of custom types in Swift Playgrounds In Swift (and in most other programming languages), programmers can create their own custom types. When you create a struct or a class you are creating your own custom type. Many useful types are provided to us by the developers of Swift (Int, Read more…