Petr Škuta Tim Cook visited the Apple Store in Orlando, where he met one of the scholarship winners at this year's developer conference WWDC 2019. It was sixteen-year-old student Liam Rosenfeld.
Liam is one of 350 lucky winners of scholarships that allow selected students to attend Apple's annual developer conference. This will give them a free ticket worth $1.
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Amaya Toman Cook takes the opportunity to meet lottery winners when he can. The head of Apple additionally commented on the entire meeting for TechCrunch magazine, where he was interviewed by editor Matthew Panzarino. The CEO was amazed at how young Liam could program. He also believes that the "Everyone Can Code" initiative will bear fruit.
"I don't think you need a college degree to master programming," Cook said. "I think it's an old traditional way of looking at things. We've found that if programming starts at a young age and continues through high school, kids like Liam can write apps of a quality that can be submitted to the App Store after high school.”
Cook makes no secret of similar optimism and gave a speech in the same vein before the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board at the White House. For example, this council deals with long-term employment on the labor market.
In Florida, the head of Apple was not by accident. A technology conference was also held here, where Apple announced cooperation with SAP. Together, they develop new applications for business, machine learning and/or augmented reality.
Not only Cook, but also Czech education sees a direction in programming
Despite all the advances in technology, many industries have not changed much and still use outdated technologies. According to Cook, it is the solution that SAP and Apple will offer together that will help reshape and change these industries.
“I think they don't value mobility. They don't value machine learning. They don't appreciate augmented reality either. All these technologies seem to be foreign to them. They keep forcing employees to sit behind a desk. But that's not a modern workplace," added Cook.
Initiatives like "Everyone Can Code" are also appearing in the Czech Republic. In addition, a fundamental change in how to approach the subject of IT is about to take place. Its main role should be teaching programming and algorithmization, while office programs will be taught as part of other subjects.
Do you think like Tim Cook that everyone can be a programmer?
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Source: MacRumors
The boy looks like a young Tim :)
Otherwise - a self-taught programmer can of course work. However, I personally think that studying at a university (a good one) will give a deeper foundation (e.g. in theory), which most self-taught students find difficult to complete by themselves, and it sometimes looks like that.
A programmer at Apple doesn't need a college degree. Apple software looks like that.