This week, Federico and John are joined by Susan Prescott, vice president of developer relations, education, and enterprise at Apple, along with 2024 Swift Student Challenge winners Harshitha Rajesh and Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg to talk about the challenge and the students’ projects. Then, John is joined by Finn Voorhees and Ellie O’Sullivan, past winners of the Swift Student Challenge who share their advice about participating in the program and getting started with Swift.

This episode is sponsored by:

• DetailsPro – Design with SwiftUI, no coding required.

Links and Show Notes

Student Interviews with Susan Prescott, Harshitha Rajesh, and Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg

• Swift Student Challenge
  
  
  
  • Apple Announces the Swift Student Challenge Will Begin in February 2024 and New Everyone Can Code Resources
  
  
  
  


• Coding Resources
  
  
  
  • Swift Playgrounds
  
  
  • Swift.org Getting Started
  
  
  • 100 Days of Swift
  
  
  • Introducing SwiftUI
  
  
  • Harvard CS50 course
  
  
  • Other Apple Coding Resources
    
    
    
    • Apple and Education
    
    
    • App Development
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

Interviews with Past Swift Student Challenge Winners

• Finn Voorhees
  
  
  
  • Working on:
    
    
    
    • Detail for Mac and iOS
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Personal apps:
    
    
    
    • Unsqueeze
    
    
    • Shortcut Buttons
    
    
    • Castaway
    
    
    • HexEdit
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Ellie O’Sullivan

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