Apple will offer hundreds of free programming courses for all ages. This initiative corresponds to the celebration of the EU Code Week, in which the European Commission wants to encourage programming and demonstrate its importance in our lives.
The EU Code Week It will start today, October 7 and end on October 22. The activities are aimed at users of all ages. And they will take place in all Apple stores in Europe. In total, Apple has commented through a press release that it wants to impart up to 6.000 courses throughout Europe.
Swift, Apple's programming language to be able to program on Mac, iOS, watchOS and tvOS, will be the center of all courses. In the words of Tim Cook himself: "We believe that programming is the language of the future and that everyone should have the opportunity to learn it." Among the sessions that hope to have more popularity among attendees will be: "Start coding", "Playtime: Sphero's Maze" or "Programming robots with Swift Playgrounds".
Likewise, Apple already has different electronic books in its iBooks Store, free access for all its users and that are focused on teachers and self-taught. On the other hand, another of the ways that Apple has to teach programming in Swift is an application for iPad that accumulates more than 1 million downloads. Is about Swift Playgrounds.
Finally, and to encourage future app developers for their platform, those from Cupertino have indicated that in Europe there are more than 1,36 jobs focused on computing. And that over the years, since the App Store opened its doors, has paid more than 18.000 million euros to developers who have worked on its platform. If you are interested in attending any of these courses, you just have to visit this link.