EC-exclusive interview with Tim Cook, Slacklash, and tech inclusion

EC-exclusive interview with Tim Cook, Slacklash, and tech inclusion

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/11/ec-exclusive-interview-with-tim-cook-slacklash-and-tech-inclusion/

TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino traveled to Florida this week to talk with Tim Cook about Appleā€™s developer education initiatives and also meet with high school developer Liam Rosenfeld of Lyman High School. Apple wants to attract the next set of app developers like Liam into the Xcode world, and the company is building a more ambitious strategy to do so going forward:

But that conversation with Liam does bring up some questions, and I ask Cook whether the thinks that there are more viable pathways to coding, especially for people with non-standard education or backgrounds.