Apple's Hour of Code workshops delight kids... of all ages!Apple has announced a whole week of Hour of Code: December 5 - 11, 2016! Sign up at your country's Apple Retail web page. Below you'll find our previous write-up and photos of what it's like to attend. First, though, here's what's new this year: Many locations will include an introduction to Swift Playgrounds! What's more, Swift Playgrounds is also being update with an all-new Hour of Code lesson. Enjoy!
Press the button. Slide to unlock. Tap the icon. The app or game fills your screen — and your senses. But how does that happen? How does that icon get on the screen? How does that bird fly across it? How does that plant obliterate that zombie? How do all these apps and games work? The answer is "code". And Apple's free Hour of Code workshops were designed to introduce kids to just that.
To get a feeling for the event, Serenity Caldwell went to the Hour of Code at the SoHo Apple Store in New York City. I took my god children, ages 6 and 9, to the Apple Store in Montreal.
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Apple's Hour of Code workshops delight kids... of all ages!
