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Apple announced its Swift Playgrounds app at WWDC yesterday, which will teach kids to code in Swift. Interwoven between CEO Tim Cook’s talk of freeing kids’ minds with code and setting them up for ...

The iPad app for budding software developers also gets new demo apps and supports Apple's SwiftUI technology that bridges across iPhones, iPads and Macs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

In 2014, Apple introduced a new programming language called Swift. Though that might not seem like much to everyday users like you and me, this announcement was actually a pretty big deal for the ...

Heading into WWDC, iOS developers from all corners of Twitter loudly proclaimed that Apple should make an Xcode app for the iPad. ‘Coding on the iPad is the next generation!’ they said. They were ...

Apple wants kids to learn how to code, and it put its money where its mouth is at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco Monday with the announcement of Swift Playgrounds, an iPad app ...

How to use the Swift Playgrounds iPad app to code on the go Your email has been sent What is a Playground? Downloading Swift Playgrounds Using Swift Playgrounds with ...

Learning to code isn’t supposed to be this fun. Apple’s new Swift Playgrounds app for iPads running iOS 10 is aimed at teaching the Swift programming language to middle-school-age children and adults, ...

One of the last but most-praised items unveiled at today’s WWDC keynote was a new app called Swift Playgrounds. The iPad app aims to teach Apple’s Swift programming language to kids (and adults).

Apple has updated Swift Playgrounds to version 4.1, with the latest release enabling users to build Mac apps using SwiftUI, as well as new content for both macOS and iPadOS versions. Both variants of ...