Re: [swift-users] Swift for students

2015-12-08 Thread Bee via swift-users
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Mosab Elagha via swift-users < swift-users@swift.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm looking for some showcases that can help younger people (14 or so) get > interested in Swift. I figured the App Store would probably be the best > place to find things this but wante

Re: [swift-users] Swift for students

2015-12-07 Thread Mosab Elagha via swift-users
> the Swift Guided Tour Playground is really nice. I imagine the instant feedback of the playground would be great for teaching. > Apart from this, if the students have access to OS X and Xcode, I would consider Playgrounds quite compelling. Playgrounds would definitely be great to have someone ge

Re: [swift-users] Swift for students

2015-12-07 Thread Roshan via swift-users
> > Some context - I am talking to a teacher here at the University of > Illinois about using Swift in some classes and she wanted to know if there > was something could convince her, and possible students, that Swift is a > great language to learn. > > Stanford has been running a iOS development c

Re: [swift-users] Swift for students

2015-12-07 Thread joe via swift-users
If the students have Macs, then the Swift Guided Tour Playground is really nice. I imagine the instant feedback of the playground would be great for teaching. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/GuidedTour.playground.zip > On Dec 7,

[swift-users] Swift for students

2015-12-07 Thread Mosab Elagha via swift-users
Hi everyone, I'm looking for some showcases that can help younger people (14 or so) get interested in Swift. I figured the App Store would probably be the best place to find things this but wanted to know if anyone had any other idea that could get someone interested in the *language*. For the sa