SAN FRANCISCO ― June 13, 2016 ― Apple® today introduced Swift Playgrounds™, an innovative new app for iPad® that makes learning to code fun and easy for anyone. Swift Playgrounds brings ...

Apple's Swift Playgrounds app uses graphics to show how a collection of commands can be grouped into a single function that you can invoke again and again to control an animated character.

Swift Playgrounds could be a transformational app for anyone who wants to learn to code.

Swift Playgrounds is an educational app that uses the Swift programming language to teach users to code, through puzzles, graphics and other tools.

Swift and Swift Playgrounds look like any other Apple product, function like the rest of its devices, and fit in with the company’s established business model.

Swift Playgrounds seems to be Apple’s attempt to spur that development instead of simply waiting for school districts to launch their own initiatives.

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 ...

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 ...

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“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 ...