I was about to write a rant about how Apple's efforts are just a ploy to get students locked-in to the Apple ecosystem early on.
I stopped myself when I remembered how Apple is one of the reasons I really got into development. I started with Logo on the Apple IIe in kindergarten. Did a lot of programming in BASIC on the Apple platform in middle and high school. One summer I did a lot of GUI programming in Hypercard controlling Laserdiscs and playing videos on the Apple Macintoshes the school had.
I'm still torn but I think making polished material like this available is going to get kids interested in learning more about programming for sure. Having access to programming technologies in school is what got me started and if that means that kids these days will have the same chance I'm all for that.
I stopped myself when I remembered how Apple is one of the reasons I really got into development. I started with Logo on the Apple IIe in kindergarten. Did a lot of programming in BASIC on the Apple platform in middle and high school. One summer I did a lot of GUI programming in Hypercard controlling Laserdiscs and playing videos on the Apple Macintoshes the school had.
I'm still torn but I think making polished material like this available is going to get kids interested in learning more about programming for sure. Having access to programming technologies in school is what got me started and if that means that kids these days will have the same chance I'm all for that.