Apple CEO Tim Cook want more Chicago students throughout the entire school system to learn to code, not just older students.
“We’ve fundamentally concluded instead of just waiting and going into the four-year school system and seeing how many women and minorities are graduating in coding, which is abysmal, that we had to back up,” Cook said in an interview. “(We have to go) all the way into elementary school and junior high school in order to fundamentally change the diversity.”
As a part of Apple's "Everyone Can Code" initiative, the tech giant will partner with Chicago schools to teach the programming language Swift in classrooms and after school programs.
