<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> IBM is doing some great work with a Swift REPL in the browser. I supplied a link <a href="http://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/#/repl" class="">http://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/#/repl</a> Swift is a great starter language that grows with the practitioner. I’m also an instructor using Swift for intro to programming. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">Kwame<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 7, 2015, at 8:25 PM, Roshan via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br class="">
> 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.<br class=""><br class=""></span></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Apart from this, if the students have access to OS X and Xcode, I would consider Playgrounds quite compelling.</div><div class=""> </div></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature">Warm regards<br class="">Roshan<br class=""></div>
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