DiscoverSwift Teacher8: 'Swift makes it very hard to get it right by accident, which is good.' with Fraser Speirs
8: 'Swift makes it very hard to get it right by accident, which is good.' with Fraser Speirs

8: 'Swift makes it very hard to get it right by accident, which is good.' with Fraser Speirs

Update: 2017-06-13
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I am pleased to share my conversation with Fraser Speirs in this episode. Fraser is the Head of Secondary at Cedars School of Excellence in Greenock, Scotland. Before that, he was the Head of Computing and IT responsible for the school’s Computer Science education and IT infrastructure.

I would like to thank Fraser for taking time out of his busy teaching, blogging, and podcasting schedule to share his expertise and knowledge.
Fraser's Blog - http://speirs.org
Out of School Podcast - http://outofschool.net
Canvas Podcast - http://relay.fm/canvas
Twitter: @fraserspeirs - https://twitter.com/fraserspeirs


Show links
“A Year of Teaching Swift” - http://www.speirs.org/blog/2017/6/1/a-year-of-teaching-swift

Swift language - https://swift.org

Swift Playgrounds - https://appsto.re/us/eHUj2.i

Learn to Code 1 & 2 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1118578018?mt=11

Learn to Code 3 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1173709121?mt=11

Teaching App Development with Swift - http://swifteducation.github.io
Intro to App Development with Swift curriculum
Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118577558?mt=11 Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118575552?mt=11
App Development with Swift
Teacher - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1219118093?mt=11 Student - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1219117996?mt=11
Server-side Swift - https://swift.org/server-apis/

Visual Basic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic
Ruby programming language - https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Python - https://www.python.org/

Hopscotch - https://appsto.re/us/f2cYK.i

Everyone Can Code K - 5 with Tynker - https://www.tynker.com/everyone-can-code/
Get Started with Code 1 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/get-started-with-code-1/id1226776727?mt=11

Get Started with Code 2 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/get-started-with-code-2/id1226776857?mt=11

Business Professionals of America - http://www.bpa.org

Branson Boggia: Mobile App Development National Champion - http://tctcspotlight.com/1835/news/tctc-bpa-competes-in-orlando/

Marco Arment: Twitter - https://twitter.com/marcoarment & website - https://marco.org/
Bradley Chambers: @bradleychambers - https://twitter.com/bradleychambers
Federrico Viticci: @viticci - https://twitter.com/viticci


Favorite Podcasts
Ctrl-Walt-Delete - https://www.theverge.com/ctrl-walt-delete

Cortex - https://www.relay.fm/cortex

The West Wing Weekly - http://thewestwingweekly.com/
50 Things that Made the Modern Economy - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b1g3c/episodes/downloads

Freakonomics Radio Podcast - http://freakonomics.com/

Join the Swift Teachers Slack Group - mailto:brian@swiftteacher.org

You can find also find the show notes and other information on my blog:
Swift Teacher Blog - http://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast
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8: 'Swift makes it very hard to get it right by accident, which is good.' with Fraser Speirs

8: 'Swift makes it very hard to get it right by accident, which is good.' with Fraser Speirs