In this regard, the Answers template acts like a console in a traditional computing sense and is a helpful resource, but it is limited for a few reasons: Many of the most popular applications of mobile devices, including all social networking apps rely on gathering, displaying and sharing information to the user.įortunately, as a remedy for more adventurous teachers and students, Apple includes a template called Answers in their Swift Playgrounds application that allows the user to ask for information from the user and display this and other information to the screen. However, a student’s exposure to information gathering, representation and processing may, as a result, be limited – depending on the depth and breadth of material covered in the classroom.Īrchiving, sharing, visualizing and processing user information are one of the primary uses of computers these days and students are keenly aware of these applications. It’s an interesting choice, and we think it’s the right choice. The Apple curriculum delays working with information representation and processing until early in the Learn to Code 2 portion of the curriculum when variables are introduced. There is one aspect of computer science that is missing from this list, however.
Swift Playgrounds for iPad and the Learn to Code curriculum are fantastic at introducing students to almost all of the major components of computer science: abstraction, composition, procedural thinking and computational thinking.
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