Meet two Apple Swift Student Challenge champs building apps that solve real-world problems

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Coding skills can be applied to tackle real-world problems. Apple's Swift Student Challenge supports the next generation of developers, creators, and entrepreneurs who want to get involved. Rising to the challenge Apple's Swift Student Challenge invites students around the globe, as young as 13, to embrace their coding skills and use Swift -- the coding language for all Apple platforms -- to create an app playground that tackles a real-world problem of their choosing. "It's really a way for people around the world, people with different experiences, different backgrounds, different ages, to be able to really showcase their passion, their creativity, and their coding skills in a way that's really relevant for them," said Susan Prescott, Apple's VP of developer relations, education, and enterprise. Also: The most popular programming languages (and what that even means) Out of thousands of global applicants, 350 students are selected as winners. The prize? More dev ... Read full article.