Apple Is Holding Free Coding Classes Around The World

Now, you can register to Apple’s “Hour of Code” that will take place at global Apple Store stores from December 1 to December 14. The program will provide thousands of free sessions in which participants will learn how to code, registration is opened now.

In the sixth year, Apple announces that it is hosting Hour of Code sessions every day via “Today at Apple”. The sessions will focus on teaching core concepts to people who have the desire to work as a coder. Children within the age of 6 to 12 will learn to code with robots while older learners will learn coding basics through Swift Playgrounds educational app.

Today, teachers that take part in Computer Science Education Week were introduced to new material, this campaign’s purpose is introducing computer science to students from kindergarten to grade 12, which will take place at the beginning of December.

The material is called Hour of Code Facilitator Guide, from which teachers will know how to teach student using Swift Playgrounds and iPad apps.

In addition, students and teachers are also provided with a Swift Coding Club kit which they can use to host their coding clubs at school on their own. The iPhone maker has designed this kit for 8-year-olds or older students, which they can use to collaborate, prototype as well as learn to code an app.

Launched two years ago, educational app Swift Playgrounds can be used in 15 different languages such as German, Spanish, English, Chinese, Japanese and Italian. Apple has been adding more courses into the app, including building apps using AR and programming toy robots.

At present, Apple is also working to turn the app’s mastery into an Advanced Placement (AP) course specifically for high school students.

Free syllabus and curriculum for the AP Computer Science Principles course will come out next school year, giving students a chance to gain AP credit for using Swift to learn to code. When finishing the class, students can sit a certification exam, named the App Development with Swift Level 1 exam. Certiport Authorized Testing Centers will hold the test for student across the world, asking the students about the Swift, core components of apps and app developer tools.

For the last two years, the educational app has been running to serve Apple’s efforts in education. Back in 2016, Apple released Everyone Can Code, teaching coding to learners at all ages from kindergarten to college and older. Currently, over 5,000 schools and colleges are running this program.