This workshop will provide an overview of Swift, an open source computer language released by Apple in 2015, and the accompanying App Development with Swift curriculum, which Apple is developing as part of a broader ‘Everyone Can Code’ initiative. The curriculum is made available for free under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license through the iBookstore:
App Development with Swift curriculum guide:
https://images.apple.com/education/docs/App_Development_with_Swift_Curriculum_Guide.pdf
The App Development with Swift curriculum is designed to inspire anyone in K-20 education (and beyond) to bring their ideas to life through code, without any prerequisite experience with computer science. The goal of the workshop is to spur discussion and reflection about the possibilities around coding and app development in the digital humanities at UCSD. We will also consider some specific features of potential relevance to the humanities:
• Xcode playgrounds – these allow for foundational programming concepts to be explored and contextualized within particular datasets and source materials for example
• ARKit – a software framework for creating augmented reality apps, which have myriad use cases in education such as data visualization, prototyping, or storytelling
• CoreML – a software framework for integrating a variety of machine learning model types into an app, such as computer vision machine learning or natural language processing for example
About the speaker
Dr. Andrew Currah is an Education Development Executive with Apple Inc, where he provides strategic thought leadership around the transformation of teaching and learning with technology. Based in San Diego, he works with higher education institutions across the US and internationally, with a focus on the liberal arts and business education. Prior to joining Apple, Andrew served as faculty in the Center for the Environment, University of Oxford, with parallel appointments in the Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford Reuters Institute of Journalism. He holds an MA, MPhil and Ph.D. in economic geography from Downing College, University of Cambridge, England.
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