Wish I had That in High School
summary
Claims that teaching teachers scales better than teaching only students and that focusing on Swift and Xcode yields usable results for beginners backed by concrete outcomes: high‑schoolers build functioning apps (hair‑extension marketplace, audition scheduler) that solve local problems and actually work. Notes policy numbers — 1 million jobs unfilled and under 25% of schools offer CS — and practical fixes: start with a mobile cart and Swift Playgrounds then move to Xcode, apprenticeship style, rather than starting with abstract theory.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:30Problem
- 6:15Learning
- 8:18CS Principles
- 10:19Driving Questions
- 11:09Scratch
- 12:23Computer Science Aim
- 15:07Java
- 17:26Teaching
- 20:43Getting Involved
- 23:29Education
- 24:10Programming
- 24:59Word Processing
- 25:54Problem Solving
- 27:56The App
- 30:05Swift Curriculum
- 31:34Why Swift
- 33:45Starting with Xcode
- 35:51College dropout rate
- 37:27The power in the rain
- 39:34Computer Science is stratified
- 41:21iPad
- 42:13Xcode
- 43:27Biggest hurdles
- 46:15Coding with Doritos
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