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Certiport launches first Swift certification program for fall of 2018

IT certification firm Certiport has announced the launch of its new Swift certification program for the secondary and collegiate markets. The program, which stems from Apple’s Everyone Can Code effort, will launch its first full-year course in the fall of 2018, and is aimed at teaching students to create their own apps for Apple’s platforms […]

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WWDC: Apple highlights Swift Playground, shows teaching possibilities of program

Ok, this could prove extremely neat. Among yesterday’s announcements, Apple CEO Tim Cook highlighted Swift Playgrounds, a free new app for beginners who want to create iOS apps using Swift, Appleā€™s programming language. Swift Playgrounds features lessons to help beginners learn coding concepts such as creating functions, issuing commands, loops, and more. Apple will release […]

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Safari Technology Preview 2.0 released, available for download and testing

If you’re interested in what’s on the horizon via Safari’s upcoming versions, you’re going to like this. Apple released Safari Technology Preview version 2.0 today. The updated browser lets you play around with a slew of upcoming technologies and offers the following fixes and changes: Browser Differences: – Changed the CFBundleSignature to allow Apple Events, […]

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Apple announces Swift 2, promises programming language will go open source in the near future

It never hurts when a programming language becomes accessible to a wider audience. During the WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple announced that Swift 2, the update to its Swift programming language, would receive significant changes. A number of enhancements to the language are planned, adding Objective-C generics, a faster debug mode, C function pointer APIs […]

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CrossOver updated to 12.2.1

You can’t knock improved language support. CrossOver, the popular virtualization program from CodeWeavers, has been updated to version 12.2.1. The new version, a 78.9 megabyte download, is available as a demo, offers the following fixes and changes: – Updated Chinese support, CrossOver 12.2.1 retails for US$59.95 and requires Mac OS X 10.6 and or later […]