24 min
11: Umar Haroon Scholars in the Spotlight
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- Technology
Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Umar Haroon, a 21 years old computer science student from Colorado who won the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission about COVID.
We get to know how he came up with the idea and how he used the frameworks provided by Apple to achieve it, we also get some great tips for future students, we discuss about the features announced at WWDC20 and some predictions for WWDC21.
The WWDC Scholarship (This year named "Swift Student Challenge") is an annual competition organized by Apple where students from all the world compete for the chance to flight to California to attend the World Wide Developer Conference held usually at the start of June. The students have to send a project using the Swift programming language and the Swift Playground format developed on either the iPad app, macOS app or Xcode.
The projects are accompanied by two or three 500 words max essays about the inspiration of the project and the technologies used. The selection process is usually a month long, in which Apple judges will see the submissions.
Music: "Gameshow" by Rob Endo at clipdad.com
Other links and contact Information:
Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast
Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/
Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx
Umar's Twitter: https://twitter.com/umar__haroon
Umar's Submission: https://github.com/Umar-M-Haroon/WWDC2020
Welcome to another episode of Scholars in the Spotlight. In this episode we get to talk with Umar Haroon, a 21 years old computer science student from Colorado who won the Swift Student Challenge 2020 with his submission about COVID.
We get to know how he came up with the idea and how he used the frameworks provided by Apple to achieve it, we also get some great tips for future students, we discuss about the features announced at WWDC20 and some predictions for WWDC21.
The WWDC Scholarship (This year named "Swift Student Challenge") is an annual competition organized by Apple where students from all the world compete for the chance to flight to California to attend the World Wide Developer Conference held usually at the start of June. The students have to send a project using the Swift programming language and the Swift Playground format developed on either the iPad app, macOS app or Xcode.
The projects are accompanied by two or three 500 words max essays about the inspiration of the project and the technologies used. The selection process is usually a month long, in which Apple judges will see the submissions.
Music: "Gameshow" by Rob Endo at clipdad.com
Other links and contact Information:
Scholars in the Spotlight's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScholarsPodcast
Scholars in the Spotlight's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyGheJigv0S_lHBtLKROhw/
Micrograx's Twitter: https://twitter.com/micrograx
Umar's Twitter: https://twitter.com/umar__haroon
Umar's Submission: https://github.com/Umar-M-Haroon/WWDC2020
24 min