<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:13px">> the Swift Guided Tour Playground is really nice. I imagine the instant feedback of the playground would be great for teaching.</span><br></div>> <span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">Apart from this, if the students have access to OS X and Xcode, I would consider Playgrounds quite compelling.</span><br><br><div>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.</div><div><a href="https://github.com/danielpi/Swift-Playgrounds">https://github.com/danielpi/Swift-Playgrounds</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>> <span style="font-size:13px">IBM is doing some great work with a Swift REPL in the browser. I supplied a link </span><a href="http://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/#/repl" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">http://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net/#/repl</a><span style="font-size:13px"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div>That's great! It looks like they're really looking to develop it further - great for students without Macs</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">> Swift is a great starter language that grows with the practitioner. I’m also an instructor using Swift for intro to programming.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#C0C0C0"><div>-Mosab Elagha</div></font></span></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Kwame Bryan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwame.bryan@gmail.com" target="_blank">kwame.bryan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"> 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" target="_blank">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><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Kwame<br><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On Dec 7, 2015, at 8:25 PM, Roshan via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><br>
> 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><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>Apart from this, if the students have access to OS X and Xcode, I would consider Playgrounds quite compelling.</div><div> </div></div>-- <br><div>Warm regards<br>Roshan<br></div>
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