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Tag: Swift Playgrounds

Apple’s ‘Swift Student Challenge’ opens in February 2024 with new Distinguished Winners category

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 9:49 amNo Comments

Apple’s Swift Student Challenge has given thousands of students around the world the opportunity to showcase their creativity and build…

Apple celebrates Computer Science Education Week with a new ‘Today at Apple’ session

Tuesday, November 29, 2022 1:42 pmTuesday, November 29, 20222 Comments

In celebration of Computer Science Education Week, Apple is introducing a new “Today at Apple” coding session, “Coding Lab for Kids…

Apple releases Swift Playgrounds for Mac

Tuesday, February 11, 2020 3:14 pm2 Comments

Apple today released a Mac Catalyst-based app, Swift Playgrounds for Mac, which was built from the existing iPadOS Swift Playgrounds app…

Apple expands Everyone Can Code to bring more coding resources to teachers and students

Wednesday, November 20, 2019 2:32 pmWednesday, November 20, 20192 Comments

From December 1-15, Apple Stores worldwide will increase Today at Apple coding sessions to offer thousands of opportunities to celebrate Computer Science Education Week…

Learning to code with Swift Playgrounds as an adult

Friday, April 6, 2018 2:31 pmFriday, April 6, 201813 Comments

Apple thinks it is critically important that everyone learn how to code…

The Xcode cliff: Is Apple teaching kids to code, or just teaching them about code?

Thursday, March 29, 2018 10:26 amThursday, March 29, 201810 Comments

Swift Playgrounds is a wonderful introduction to programming…

How coding can make your kids safer online

Monday, June 19, 2017 4:35 pmTuesday, June 20, 20178 Comments

All this emphasis on childhood coding may seem like overkill, but it can actually…

Apple’s Swift Playgrounds expands coding education to robots, drones and musical instruments

Thursday, June 1, 2017 1:32 pmThursday, June 1, 20175 Comments

Apple today announced that Swift Playgrounds, its educational coding app for iPad, will offer…

Swift Playgrounds now available in five additional languages

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 10:02 amNo Comments

Apple today announced that Swift Playgrounds, a revolutionary app for iPad that helps students learn to code…

Free Hour of Code workshops run December 5-11 at every Apple location

Thursday, November 17, 2016 3:27 pmThursday, November 17, 20163 Comments

Apple today opened registration for Hour of Code workshops at all 487 Apple retail locations worldwide…

Apple’s free Swift Playgrounds for iPad now available on the App Store

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 4:28 pmTuesday, September 13, 20164 Comments

Swift Playgrounds, an innovative new iPad app from Apple that makes learning to code easy and fun for everyone…

Learning to code as a 30-year-old kid with Apple’s Swift Playgrounds

Thursday, July 14, 2016 2:58 pm6 Comments

The app is Apple’s first crack at anything that even resembles an iOS-native development environment…

Ars Technica: Apple’s Swift Playgrounds slightly misses the mark for developers

Tuesday, July 12, 2016 2:15 pmTuesday, July 12, 201611 Comments

HyperCard succeeded precisely because it didn’t try to teach anyone to be a programmer…

Apple’s free Swift Playgrounds app for iPad makes learning to code easy and fun

Monday, June 13, 2016 3:13 pmMonday, June 13, 20166 Comments

Apple today introduced Swift Playgrounds, an innovative new app for iPad® that makes learning to code fun and easy…

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