This week on AppStories, we 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, I interview 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.

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• 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
• Swift Playgrounds
• Coding Resources
  • Swift.org Getting Started
  • 100 Days of Swift
  • Introducing SwiftUI
  • Harvard CS50 course
  • 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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On AppStories+, we discuss a wild iPad rumor that Federico found on Reddit.

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This week on MacStories Unwind, why game emulators on iOS are a big deal, Girls5eva, and Franklin.

This episode is sponsored by:

• Kolide – It ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo now.

Links and Show Notes

Unplugged Segment

• The Wild World of iOS Retro Gaming
  • Related MacStories articles:
    • Game On: Speed Running Game Emulation on iOS
    • How to Load Your Game Boy Games Onto the iPhone to Play in the Delta Emulator
    • Emulators Will Change the App Store Forever
    • The Delta Videogame Emulator Launches on the App Store

Picks

• Federico’s Pick:
  • Girls5eva on Peacock and Netflix
    • Trailer
• John’s Pick:
  • Franklin on Apple TV+
    • Trailer
    • Based on the book, A Great Improvisation by Stacey Schiff

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This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico watched Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and has a request for listeners, and my favorite new TV show is The Gentlemen.

Links and Show Notes

Picks

• Federico’s Pick:
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Also mentioned:
    • Eternal Sunshine by Ariana Grande
    • Momento
    • Letterboxd
    • Day One
    • Sequel
    • Criterion
    • Napoleon
      • Magic Rays of Light: Napoleon and Oscars Predictions
  • Send Federico your movie recommendations on Mastodon or Threads
• John’s Pick:
  • The Gentlemen
    • Trailer

On Deck

• Federico:
  • Your movie recommendations
• John:
  • Palm Royale on TV+
  • The Holdovers

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