Apple CEO Tim Cook has a message for techies

Every year at WWDC — Apple’s annual developers’ conference — the company invites students scholars to attend the event. Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook met one such student and shared an interesting insight. Cook was in Orlando and in an interview with TechCrunch spoke about the importance of coding in school education. What he also said that it’s not necessary to have a four-year degree in coding.
The Apple CEO said, “I don’t think a four year degree is necessary to be proficient at coding.” According to Cook, having a four-year degree is an “old, traditional view.” Cook explained that at Apple they had found that “if we can get coding in in the early grades and have a progression of difficulty over the tenure of somebody’s high school years” then students are already “writing apps that could be put on the App Store.”