Course

Futures: Introduction to Swift Programming

CSE-90026

This hands-on course provides a comprehensive introduction to Swift Programming, the powerful and intuitive coding language for all of Apple’s operating systems, including macOS, iOS, watch OS and tvOS. High school students will learn how to use Swift Programming to write applications for Apple platforms. Topics include functions, structures, enumerations, classes and closures. High school students will also learn how Swift can be used to create simple apps. After completing this course, high school students will have the skills needed to take Futures: iOS Programming I.

This course is part of the iOS Programming for High Schoolers program.

Course Information

Online

3.00 units

$500.00

Course sessions

Add To Cart 6/8/2026 - 6/28/2026 Online $500

Section ID:

197340

Class type:

Online Asynchronous.

This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

Textbooks:

All course materials are included unless otherwise stated.

Policies:

No refunds after: 6/1/2026
Early enrollment advised
No UCSD parking permit required
No visitors permitted

Schedule:

No information available at this time.

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Instructor: Laura Ruival, B.A. in Communication – UC San Diego; iOS Swift Certificate – UCSD Extended Studies; Apple App Dev (Swift) Certified User; KUBO Certified Teacher; Microsoft Azure Fundamentals & AI Fundamentals

Laura Ruival, B.A. in Communication – UC San Diego; iOS Swift Certificate – UCSD Extended Studies; Apple App Dev (Swift) Certified User; KUBO Certified Teacher; Microsoft Azure Fundamentals & AI Fundamentals

Software Engineer; Coding & Robotics Instructor (Alpine Ed. Foundation, since 2018); CS Instructor (UCSD Extended Studies, since 2019); Instructor (Sally Ride Science, since 2020)

Laura Ruival is a software engineer with 15 years of full-time commercial software development experience and a programming instructor. She took her first HTML class as an undergraduate at UC San Diego in 1996 and has been hooked ever since. Since graduating she has continued to learn everything she can about coding while pursuing a career as a web developer and software engineer. She has worked for various companies around San Diego including a dot com startup, an eLearning company, a casino, and a Fortune 500 fintech firm. She has taken numerous computer science classes at Grossmont college and UC San Diego Extended Studies and continues learning to this day. She completed the iOS Programming with Swift certification at UC San Diego Extended Studies and earned Apple’s App Dev with Swift Certified User certification from Certiport in October of 2021. Last year she also completed two Microsoft certifications: Azure Fundamentals and AI Fundamentals.

After taking a break from the corporate world to have children, she decided that she was ready to give back to the schools and organizations that helped her achieve her career goals. She made it her mission to expose more young people to coding. Toward that end, in 2018 she began teaching coding and robotics for Alpine Education Foundation, a non-profit organization that brings STEAM subjects to elementary schools in the Alpine Union School district.

The following year Laura also began teaching for UC San Diego Extended Studies' Futures program which offers programming and robotics courses to high school students. She teaches Front End Web Technologies, iOS Swift and Robotics with JavaScript courses. She also teaches Scratch coding camps for Sally Ride Science. Laura is eager to pass on her knowledge and experience in the software industry and make coding accessible to every student.

In her spare time she enjoys playing Pickleball, hiking, camping and spending time with her husband, two children and her dog.

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