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When he said they hope to redefine how computer science is taught, that's a great goal (and to an outsider Swift looks great) but have they spoke to an academic
by mcintyre1994 12y ago
When he said they hope to redefine how computer science is taught, that's a great goal (and to an outsider Swift looks great) but have they spoke to an academic about that idea?
If they take the Microsoft approach of being nice to schools that'd be awesome - much better to teach kids Swift than how to use Office. So if they're talking about schools, there's probably some private ones that would be interested but it'd take a crazy effort to crack teaching in schools on a wide scale.
Universities, not a chance. It might be great but it's not going to be an academic's choice of teaching language however good it might be for that.
- gress 12y agoA load of colleges (e.g. Stanford) already teach iOS development. Swift and playgrounds will automatically chance how this is taught.
- mseri 12y agoAnd with those nice closures, generics, monadic patterns, ... They even have a nice way to introduce useful abstract concepts at lower level classes (not that they couldn't make it without... It's just funnier and with higher incentive if you can build ios apps out of it)
- pjmlp 12y agoDon't generalize, there are lots of good universities out there.