Apple's wide spectrum of developer tools are getting a series of major upgrades to help coders build better, faster code more quickly, in addition to providing collaborative features to help development teams work together more effectively. The result: more, better apps for end users.
While it isn't quite the full-fledged Xcode on iPad that some developers have been clamoring for, Apple on Monday announced that Swift Playgrounds in iPadOS 15 will be greatly enhanced, teaching users how to build iPad apps and even allowing them to be submitted to the App Store.
Apple has profiled three winners of its Swift Student Challenge for WWDC 2021, featuring three women who created apps and projects to help people live their lives, as well as to learn to create their own apps.
Apple has announced the schedule for its forthcoming Worldwide Developer Conference for 2021, including the introduction of a new Pavilions feature for developers looking to choose which online events to attend.
Apple has opened up its Swift Student Challenge as part of WWDC 2021, with students able to win prizes for creating a Swift Playgrounds experience.
Ohio State University is making a certificate program that teaches students to code and build App Store apps available to the public.
Apple's Swift programming language officially landed on Windows this week, with Swift toolchain images now available for download from the open source project.
Apple on Tuesday detailed some of the new features and changes coming to its CryptoKit API, including portability and key derivation.
Apple now offers more educational tools for Swift educators and students in Canada, including new resources for Everyone Can Code and Develop in Swift.
Apple has added 10 more Historically Black Colleges and Universities regional coding centers to its Community Education Initiative to bring coding, creativity, and workforce development opportunities to learners of all ages.
Apple on Thursday announced a new set of tools and resources for teachers and students as part of its Swift coding education initiatives.
Apple on Thursday once again highlighted some of the winning projects from its annual Swift Student Challenge.
The 350 winning students in Apple's Swift Student Challenge coding contest are starting to get their prizes, a WWDC 2020 jacket, and the annual set of Apple icon pins.
Apple has highlighted three of its Swift Student Challenge winners, just under a week before the 2020 WWDC begins.
Apple's Swift Playgrounds, an app that teaches you how to code via small game like experiences, has launched on the Mac App Store for the first time.
From December 1 to December 15, curious coders can head to their local Apple Store to learn the basics of coding and programming.
The European Union's annual Code Week is working with Apple's Swift language and Everyone Can Code initiative to introduce programming to teachers and students of all ages and abilities.
Apple is hosting a series of training sessions for teachers, intended to instruct them on how to best educate the next generation on how to use the principles of coding in everyday tasks.
Apple and Tennessee State University have joined together on the HBCU C2 Presidential Academy, meant to expose students at historically black colleges and universities — HBCUs — to opportunities in programming and app development.
This week on the AppleInsider Podcast, William and Victor enthuse about Affinity Publisher, the newest desktop publishing app from Serif Labs. And while Kano PC partners with Microsoft to take on the iPad in education, Jamf reports that people in the workplace strongly prefer Macs to PCs.
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