Swift Playgrounds Now Available on the App Store
September 13 2016 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
New iPad App Makes Learning to Code Easy & Fun for
Everyone
Swift Playgrounds™, an innovative new iPad® app from Apple® that
makes learning to code easy and fun for everyone, is now available
on the App Store®. With Swift Playgrounds, real coding concepts are
brought to life with an interactive interface that allows students
and beginners to explore working with Swift™, the easy-to-learn
programming language from Apple used by professional developers to
create world-class apps.
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Swift Playgrounds, now available on the
App Store, brings real coding concepts to life. (Photo: Business
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The Swift Playgrounds app is approachable enough for students
with no previous programming experience to begin exploring key
coding concepts, but also powerful enough for skilled programmers
to experiment and express their creativity using Swift.
“Everyone should have the opportunity to learn coding, and we
are excited to bring Swift Playgrounds to the next generation of
programmers looking for a fun and easy way to explore key coding
concepts using real code,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior
vice president of Software Engineering. “More than 100 schools
around the world have already committed to adding Swift Playgrounds
to their fall curriculum, and we can’t wait to see what students
create with it.”
Swift Playgrounds includes Apple-developed programming lessons
that guide students through a series of challenges and puzzles to
guide three on-screen characters through an immersive graphical
world as they learn core coding concepts, like issuing commands,
creating functions, performing loops and using conditional code and
variables. Apple will also regularly release new standalone
challenges so users can continue learning new skills.
Swift Playgrounds also features built-in templates that users
can modify and build on to create their own programs with graphics
and touch interactions. They can then share their creations with
friends using Mail or Messages or even by posting to the Web. And
since Swift Playgrounds uses real Swift code, projects can be
exported directly to Xcode® and ultimately be turned into
full-fledged iOS and Mac® apps.
Availability
Swift Playgrounds is available today on the App Store for free.
Swift Playgrounds is compatible with all iPad Air® and iPad Pro™
models and iPad mini™ 2 and later running iOS 10. For more
information including videos, images and demos, visit:
www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds.
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