[swift-users] Swift for students

[Mosab Elagha]

> the Swift Guided Tour Playground is really nice. I imagine the instant
feedback of the playground would be great for teaching.
> Apart from this, if the students have access to OS X and Xcode, I would
consider Playgrounds quite compelling.

Playgrounds would definitely be great to have someone get straight into it.
I found this great repo on github that contains some cool playgrounds to
mess around with too.
https://github.com/danielpi/Swift-Playgrounds

> IBM is doing some great work with a Swift REPL in the browser. I supplied
a link http://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/#/repl

That's great! It looks like they're really looking to develop it further -
great for students without Macs

> Swift is a great starter language that grows with the practitioner. I’m
also an instructor using Swift for intro to programming.

If you've taught a class with it already, do you mind telling us how that's
being going? Anything you've learned that you want to apply to future
classes?

Best
-Mosab Elagha

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Kwame Bryan <kwame.bryan at gmail.com> wrote:

>     IBM is doing some great work with a Swift REPL in the browser. I
> supplied a link http://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/#/repl Swift is a great
> starter language that grows with the practitioner. I’m also an instructor
> using Swift for intro to programming.
>
> Regards
> Kwame
>
> On Dec 7, 2015, at 8:25 PM, Roshan via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>> > Some context - I am talking to a teacher here at the University of
>> Illinois about using Swift in some classes and she wanted to know if there
>> was something could convince her, and possible students, that Swift is a
>> great language to learn.
>>
>>
> Stanford has been running a iOS development course for quite some time and
> they started using Swift recently(last year?). I don't know if the course
> gives enough attention to Swift itself(it is after all a iOS development
> course) but it might be worth a look.
>
> Apart from this, if the students have access to OS X and Xcode, I would
> consider Playgrounds quite compelling.
>
> --
> Warm regards
> Roshan
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