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Tim Cook surprises kids taking coding lessons at Apple store in Eaton Centre
Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook visited Canada for the first time as CEO Monday, surprising students at a downtown Toronto Apple store to highlight the importance of learning to code, and dropping in on a group of developers to thank them for their contributions to the tech giant’s app store.
The unannounced visit by Cook — who, as Apple’s chief executive since 2011, has overseen the rollout of the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch — was the first time an Apple CEO has visited Canada since Steve Jobs made the trek north in the late 1980s.
Cook surprised a class of Grade 7 students in Toronto’s east end as they learned how to program robots to dance on tables using Apple’s Swift programming language, recently introduced by the company as a low-barrier-to-entry way of coding.
“Swift came out of the fundamental recognition that coding languages were too geeky. Most students would look at them and say, ‘that’s not for me,’ ” Cook said as the preteens participated in an Apple-designed “Everyone Can Code” workshop, which helps children learn how to build mobile apps, at the Apple Store in Toronto’s Eaton Centre.
“That’s not our view. Our view is that coding is a horizontal skill like your native languages or mathematics, so we wanted to design a programming language that is as easy to learn as our products are to use.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...g-lessons-at-apple-store-in-eaton-centre.html
Tim Cook surprises kids taking coding lessons at Apple store in Eaton Centre
Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook visited Canada for the first time as CEO Monday, surprising students at a downtown Toronto Apple store to highlight the importance of learning to code, and dropping in on a group of developers to thank them for their contributions to the tech giant’s app store.
The unannounced visit by Cook — who, as Apple’s chief executive since 2011, has overseen the rollout of the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch — was the first time an Apple CEO has visited Canada since Steve Jobs made the trek north in the late 1980s.
Cook surprised a class of Grade 7 students in Toronto’s east end as they learned how to program robots to dance on tables using Apple’s Swift programming language, recently introduced by the company as a low-barrier-to-entry way of coding.
“Swift came out of the fundamental recognition that coding languages were too geeky. Most students would look at them and say, ‘that’s not for me,’ ” Cook said as the preteens participated in an Apple-designed “Everyone Can Code” workshop, which helps children learn how to build mobile apps, at the Apple Store in Toronto’s Eaton Centre.
“That’s not our view. Our view is that coding is a horizontal skill like your native languages or mathematics, so we wanted to design a programming language that is as easy to learn as our products are to use.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...g-lessons-at-apple-store-in-eaton-centre.html
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