Apple today teased a big Swift Playgrounds update that allows students to control real-world devices. Using Swift, the company’s open-source coding language, users can take control of robots, drones ...

Apple's Swift Playgrounds app received its first update today, introducing a new set of coding lessons and a few new features to enhance the coding experience. Included in the update is the "Learn to ...

One of the nice surprise introductions at WWDC was Swift Playgrounds, a new app coming to the iPad and iOS 10 that will help teach kids (or anyone, really) how to code with Swift. Apple introduced ...

When I was in college (a long, long time ago), computer science was in its infancy. My only exposure to computers was a single required course, Programming in Fortran. I remember it involved stacks of ...

Along with releasing iOS 10 and Swift 3.0, Apple this week introduced Swift Playgrounds, a free iPad app that teaches how to use the company's young programming language to build apps for its flagship ...

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Apple has made Swift Playgrounds available for download, and provides a way to teach beginners and children how to code on its Swift programming language on the iPad. Swift Playgrounds includes ...

Swift Playgrounds, the beginner’s training app for Apple’s Swift coding language, has arrived on the Mac App Store at last, having for the previous three and a half years been exclusively available ...

Apple today announced that Swift Playgrounds, a free iPad app to teach kids of any age basic coding skills in Swift, will soon offer a new way to learn to code using robots, drones and musical ...

Alongside iOS 10, tvOS 10, and watchOS 3, Apple today officially released Swift Playgrounds, a new app aimed at teaching both children and adults how to code through simple interactive coding ...

In 2014, Apple introduced a programming language called Swift that made waves in the developer community -- not just for its power and flexibility, but for how easy it is to learn. So easy, in fact, ...

Every year, Code.org hosts Hour of Code, a global initiative aimed at teaching the basics of computer programming to students. Part of the annual Computer Science Education Week, Hour of Code is ...