If you’re brand new to programming and you have an iPad, you should start exploring code with Apple’s Swift Playgrounds iPad app. It’s an app that is designed to teach you the basics of ...

The basic structure of Swift is similar to ... which is not easy to use as modern programming languages. Swift brings a new tool called “Playground”, which lets you see the program as you ...

Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming ... interested." Swift is not only more familiar to contemporary coders---offering things like "generics," basic building blocks ...

Apple thinks Swift itself is a lucid enough programming language to span the ... for those who want to look beyond Byte puzzles and basic shapes. Apple will periodically add new challenges to ...

How many schools ran Linux or Mac OS X in the 2000s? How many schools taught any open-source programming language alongside Visual Basic? Swift Playgrounds runs on any 64-bit iPad that supports iOS 10 ...

Learn why Swift matters, how to use the programming language and how it differs from Objective-C. Objective-C has won the hearts of many developers. It started as a programming language that ...

I took BASIC programming in high school on an Osborne and it’s great to see even younger kids programming today on iPads using Swift. In high school I never knew then how important that one ...

You can use Swift on Windows, but the lack of a UI layer that makes the language feel like a second-class citizen. If you want basic systems programming, you write a C# console app. More complex ...

Apple has brought augmented reality to its Swift Playgrounds app designed to teach kids the basics of programming and maybe even groom them into the next generation of iPhone developers.