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

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

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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/

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Swift Teacher Blog - http://www.swiftteacher.org/podcast