About prospects of the use of language swift in the learning of programming

Abstract

In the article the selection of programming languages for learning the basics of algorithmization and programming in school and teachers’ training university is being analyzed. The applicability of programming language Swift in education is being substantiated. Swift is a powerful open programming language widely used for applications development within the operating systems from the company Apple and is available in operating systems based on GNU / Linux. Main types of variables, ways of their description in Swift, features of data typing are being described in detail in the article. It is noted that the spreading of the language Swift in schools of Ukraine is possible with the active creation of the free integrated development environments for Windows and GNU / Linux.