Meet Swift Playgrounds, the learn-to-code iPad app that feels like a puzzle game Apple's first foray into teaching kids how to code is a triumph. By Susie Ochs ...

I recognized some of the words and structure. That’s why, ostensibly, Apple's new, free code-training app Swift Playgrounds should be for me and much more agile-minded students.

“I wish Swift Playgrounds was around when I was first learning to code,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “Swift Playgrounds is the only app of ...

Along with the reveal of a new 9.7-inch iPad and new red iPhone, Apple also announced today that its learn-to-code app Swift Playgrounds is now available in five new languages. The additional ...

Only it’s not just a video game — it’s a series of coding lessons and challenges designed to teach kids the fundamentals of computer science, all based around Apple’s new programming ...

Students progress in programming from Code.org, using their great curriculum resources, to Hopscotch and Swift Playgrounds in grade five to pre-made Scratch games in grade six, where they were ...

Learning to code as a 30-year-old kid with Apple’s Swift Playgrounds A guided tour of the app and a chat with the team at Apple about its goals.

Today, Apple highlighted AR-focused lessons in Swift Playgrounds. In one example shown on stage, kids could program an animated character to move through a 3D virtual world as a part of a game.

Apple’s Swift Playgrounds can help you learn to code, but it’s no HyperCard The programming sandbox, seen through the eyes of devs, slightly misses the mark.

The free app cleverly disguised as a video game teaches kids how to use Apple’s Swift programming language, and to maybe build apps of their own. Now that it’s on Mac, it might be easier for ...