For the last couple of years, I have been incorporating iOS App Dev in with my capstone engineering class. There are two tangible goals for doing this. 1) I want my students to be comfortable with and have a strong foundation in programming. 2) I want my students to also spend more time focusing on the end user experience. These two goals are very important for future engineers in any field. I use Swift for all of the reasons I have stated before. This summer, I got an email from one of my students who just graduated a few weeks earlier. He had landed an internship with a software development company out of Houston. Austin lives in the Dallas area. Not only did they hire him to work in their iOS department, but they let him work remotely from home. He was super excited. Here's a part of the email from him. "Anyways, I can't thank you enough for helping me grow throughout this year and making swift mandatory. I honestly couldn't have done it without you. This is a huge opportunity that I wouldn't have even imagined a year ago." Needless to say, I am super excited and proud of what Austin accomplished. He developed several features for a specific app the company developed. He learned several new APIs and iPhone features such as Touch ID. He said it was a real challenge, but he was up to it.
The Everyone Can Code curriculum along with Swift make it possible for teachers to provide the ability to take advantage of opportunities like this when they arrive. I can't promise any of my students what opportunities will come their way. All I do is give them the tools to be able to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves.
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