Apple updates Swift Playgrounds for iPad with new Learn to Code lesson, music support

Apple's new iPad app designed to teach programming concepts has been updated with a third new Learn to Code lessons, support for sound and music, line highlighting and the upcoming Hour of Code workshops the company is hosting in its retail stores in early December.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 0

Apple announces free Hour of Code workshops between Dec. 5 & 11

Apple on Thursday opened up registrations for its free 2016 Hour of Code workshops, which will take place between Dec. 5 and 11 at Apple stores worldwide.

Roger Fingas 9 years ago 3

Apple's Swift Playgrounds sandbox for programming education now available

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.

Mike Wuerthele 9 years ago 7

Apple's new Swift Playgrounds for iPad is a killer app for teaching code

At WWDC, Apple introduced Swift Playgrounds as a "revolutionary new app for iPad that makes learning Swift interactive and fun." A closer examination shows the new app is a powerful authoring tool any developer can use to teach critically important software coding skills.

Daniel Eran Dilger 10 years ago 21

Apple brings coding to the iPad with Swift Playground

Introduced as a new way for children to learn how to code, Apple will bring its Swift programming language to iPad with Swift Playground, a touch-friendly way for beginners to grasp the basics.

AppleInsider Staff 10 years ago 74

Apple deploys first preview branch of Swift 3.0 ahead of WWDC 2016

Developers now have access to the first preview release branch for Swift 3.0, the next evolution of Apple's custom programming language.

Roger Fingas 10 years ago 12

Apple & SAP announce partnership on iOS SDK, apps & training

Apple and enterprise software firm SAP on Thursday announced a partnership that will see the creation of a new SDK, allowing the latter company's clients and developers to produce iOS apps exploiting the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.

Roger Fingas 10 years ago 21

Google mulling deep Android support for Apple's Swift language - report

Apple's nascent Swift programming language could have a bright future ahead with one of the company's chief competitors, as Google is reportedly considering bring Swift to Android as a "first-class" language.

AppleInsider Staff 10 years ago 36

IBM brings Apple's Swift to the cloud, simplifying enterprise app development

Thanks to new tools from IBM, developers will be able to write and run applications entirely in the cloud using Apple's Swift programming language.

AppleInsider Staff 10 years ago 29

Apple open-sources Swift benchmarking suite

Apple on Monday took its Swift benchmark suite open source, providing developers access to a wide-ranging set of tools designed to track project performance and catch bugs in code written in the company's fledgling programming language.

AppleInsider Staff 10 years ago 4

Apple's Swift language project gains continuous integration

Apple on Monday officially launched continuous integration for Swift, enabling checks on the project's health, and integrated testing within pull requests before any commits are made.

Roger Fingas 10 years ago 15

Apple making sparse use of Swift in its own apps, engineer claims

In spite of Apple expressing a desire to switch its apps to Swift, just a handful of them are actually using the programming language so far, according to a software engineer.

Roger Fingas 10 years ago 49

Deep Swift integration coming to iCloud and OS X, says Apple's Craig Federighi

Apple is beginning to bake Swift into some of its core software, instead of simply supporting it in third-party apps, senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi said in a podcast interview.

Roger Fingas 10 years ago 28

This week on AppleInsider: Samsung pays out, 4-inch iPhone rumors, World AIDS Day & more

The aftermath of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday kept news relatively quiet, but rumors of a new 4-inch iPhone persisted, and Samsung finally agreed to pay out $548 million to Apple — with conditions.

Roger Fingas 10 years ago 4

IBM Swift Sandbox lets you test Apple's newly open-source programming language in your browser

Just hours after Apple made its Swift programming language open source, IBM has introduced a new, simple, and free browser-based way for developers to get started writing code.

Neil Hughes 10 years ago 27

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