Infinite Skills’ “Learning to Program with Swift” Teaches the Fundamentals of Apple’s New Language for Developing in …
(PRWEB) October 22, 2014 Software training firm Infinite Skills Inc. this week released its “Learning to Program with Swift Tutorial,” a fundamentals course teaching basic and advanced features of Apple’s new language for app development in iOS and OS X. [...]
Multicultural classroom: Educators encourage foreign language courses in …
Few would argue the country is becoming more multilingual. Not coincidentally, so are Lubbock public schools. Texas graduation requirements include two years of a foreign language. Taking more than that as electives, though, is never a bad idea, say administrators. [...]
$16M for UW foreign-language students, programs
College students with an interest in languages should pay attention to this one: The University of Washington has received a $ 16 million federal grant to support as many as 140 fellowships a year for students who major in Chinese, Arabic, [...]
School of Thought: Learning languages benefits all
Manarola in Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy. John Jay student Terrence Levens advocates for students to embrace studying foreign languages. (Courtesy of Dan Fulop) Since most juniors have college on the brain, it was no surprise when my friends and I [...]
Five ways language learning will make your child smarter
Looking for a new activity this fall for your child? Try language learning. I like to say it is the super activity of activities — akin to a “super food.” In addition to the utility of a language, many other [...]
For a Better Brain, Learn Another Language
There’s a certain sinking feeling one gets when thinking of the perfect thing to say just a moment too late. Perhaps a witty parting word could have made all the difference. There is no English word to express this feeling, [...]
Klingon speakers rejoice: the golden era of fictional languages is now
Drogo, chieftain of the Dothraki. Photograph: Press For most language-learning software companies, Spanish is bread and butter. But at least one company is obliging fans’ desire to be subsumed into the world of Game of Thrones. Living Language has released [...]
Russia’s Foreign-Language Oscar Race Entry’s Release Postponed
The local release of Leviafan (Leviathan), Russia’s foreign-language Oscar race entry and Cannes winner, has been postponed from to February 2015, distributor A Company said Wednesday. Alexander van Dulmen, A Company’s CEO, was quoted by proficinema.ru as saying that the [...]
Duolingo’s crowdsourced language learning platform has made 40 courses for …
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Learning a second programming language? Try these 5 sites
Developers trying to jump from one language to another often hit the same wall: How do I do this? They can do it in their base language, but introduce them to a strange new world, and the going gets rough. Programmers [...]