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Last month, the Apple exec told Fortune about how the company developed the programming language Swift to encourage students of all ages to learn to code. “All this curriculum stuff is free. Anybody can have it that wants it around the world. We've done it in multiple languages,” he said. FortuneTim Cook Says Learning How to Code is More Important than English as a Second LanguageEli Meixler

In 2006, I was telling anyone who would listen — which, given that I was a nerdy 19-year old, wasn’t many people — to buy Apple stock. Back then Apple seemed to be on the verge of something amazing. I had had an iPod since 2003, and had just bought a Macbook Pro, and was blown away by OS X. The operating system and interface had a crispness and an attention to detail that made Windows PCs seem like a muddled mess. Turns out I was right about Apple. The past decade has seen Apple blow up...