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It’s October again and that means EU Code Week is back! And this year I’m working on a little project with a few brilliant folks on an EU Code Week Challenge called the Inclusive App Design challenge. The challenge is all about...

I had a great question from a teacher at a secondary school here in Ireland about animating images in a Swift Playground. The question was basically: How do I do it in a playground with Swift? You can go to the source, of course, and check...

We’re in the thick of a hackathon project and some students are plowing ahead with their prototypes and looking to turn them into full-blown apps. In this new video I walk you through a pretty common scenario. Many of our apps are...

I hope you’re all enjoying the summer. It’s been sunny and warm in Ireland, thank goodness, so we’ve been spending our time outdoors as much as possible! But we did get inside to do some coding when we recently ran a...

One of my favorite things from WWDC21 this year was the DocC stuff. The funny thing is, I had NO IDEA it would be one of my favorites until Saturday, when I was catching up on some sessions. There are the heavy hitters, of course, like the...

I hope you’re all enjoying WWDC21 so far! There’s so much to chew on, from SwiftUI improvements and additions, Xcode Cloud, RealityKit additions, Object Capture, Accessibility. AND BUILDING APPS IN SWIFT PLAYGROUNDS! But...

Happy WWDC! It’s that magical time of year when developers working on Apple platforms have all their dreams come true! Well, okay, maybe not, but we get a very fun week of new tech and demos and excitement about the platform. If...

Inspired by some recent teacher questions via email and Twitter, I threw together some more advanced Swift Playgrounds. Adventures! Right now there are two of them. As Swift Playgrounds, they’re designed to run in the Playgrounds app...

Last year we had a little wish list for WWDC, so I figured I would take a look at what we’d love to see today. Last Year Well, first, what did we get last year? From our list, we did wind up getting new books, a whole load of them!...

We’re going to be back (online) teaching you how to teach the Develop in Swift material — Explorations, Fundamentals, and Data Collections — in June! If you’re an educator thinking about teaching Swift and app...

When I’m teaching teachers how to teach coding we spend a lot of time in Keynote. The excellent Develop in Swift series, from Apple, comes with a whole set of keynote files for presenting nearly every lesson in the book. If you...

On the back of our Swift Playground series, I created a quick video to show you how to create an Xcode Playground, like the ones you would use if you’re taking (or teaching) the Develop in Swift material. You can watch it below or...

Well, that was a ton of fun Thursday! As some of the commenters mentioned, that is a daunting session. Xcode, Swift Playgrounds Author Template, mucking around in packages in the Finder, it can certainly be overwhelming. But the goal of...

Better late than never, let’s try a live session! Tomorrow, April 15th, at 1pm, Irish time (2pm CET), I’ll jump back on the live stream (or jump right to the stream here). We’ll walk through creating a Swift Playground...

Update: Due to the due date for submissions for the Swift Student Challenge, the live sessions will likely be the week of the 12th of April. See you then! It looks like you’ll have another set of dates to block off on your calendar...

I’m just going to leave this here: Keep those calendars clear! More info coming soon… The post Mark your Calendars: Teaching Develop in Swift Returns appeared first on The Code Hub.

I’m busy putting the finishing touches on our Teaching Develop in Swift Online class for next week. It promises to be a week full of Swift coding and app prototyping that you’ll be able to use in your classroom to teach people...

Are you a teacher who is trying to figure out how to teach coding, and app development in particular? Are you a coder who feels like you could help people learn how to develop apps? Does this feel like I’m leading you somewhere with...

For those who aren’t as interested, they’re still going to be learning determination, perseverance and trial and error. from the ReMarker, February 2021, “In a Growing Industry” by William Fitzpatrick Junior of St. Mark’s...

We held some live coding sessions during EU Code Week 2020. They included unplugged activities, away from the iPad, and then a follow-along session of coding in various Swift Playgrounds. Now, these sessions were a ton of fun in the...

Just recently, the Swift team announced a new effort to promote diversity in Swift. As someone who tries to make sure people who want to learn how to code get the best introduction they can, I love this effort. We, as a software...

It has been a wild and woolly ride, but you can now watch all TEN days of A Quick Start to Code with Swift follow-along sessions! Steve and I recorded the last few extra days and posted them a little earlier. Follow-Along Coding Sessions...

Steve and I are back with Earlston Primary School in Scotland to talk about finding patterns, from the Quick Start to Code with Swift PDF from Apple. We talk a lot about finding patterns and turning those patterns we use repeatedly into...

So you’ve started your coding career, or maybe just progressed it a little. Now you’re looking for where else to go to learn coding. Well, we have good news! We’ve taken a look at the other days in the Quick Start to Code...

Join us live today at 9:45am, Irish/UK time for another follow-along coding session! For context (and last week’s recording), you can visit our mini-site: Day Nine: Play your own game We follow Apple’s Quick Start to Code with...

Join us live today at 9:45am, Irish/UK time for another follow-along coding session! For context (and last week’s recording), you can visit our mini-site: Day Six: Track the gems We follow Apple’s Quick Start to Code with Swift...

Join us live today at 9:45am, Irish/UK time for another follow-along coding session! For context (and last week’s recording), you can visit our mini-site: Day Four: Get loopy We follow Apple’s Quick Start to Code with Swift PDF...

Join us live today at 9:45am, Irish/UK time for another follow-along coding session! For context (and last week’s recording), you can visit our mini-site: Day Three: Get groovy We follow Apple’s Quick Start to Code with Swift...

Join us live today at 9:45am, Irish/UK time for another follow-along coding session! We’re back again this week for more coding fun. So if you missed our sessions last week or just want to join the live session this week, tune in!...

NOW we’re talking! Let’s get down to games! The number one question I get in my coding classes is from wide-eyed students, who come up to me and say, “Hang on… with this stuff, can I write games?” And the...

Big day for us today, I hope you’ll join us live at 9:45am, Irish/UK time! You can give your poor, tired legs a break today, as we’ll be thinking about our dances of the last few days more than doing them. Unplugged Steve is...

We’re back again today, a bit like a loop, in fact! Join us at 9:45am Irish/UK time. We hope you didn’t work up too much of a sweat yesterday with the dancing, because we’re back dancing again today. Unplugged Steve is...