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Apple introduced an iPad app that teaches kids how to code in its Swift programming language. It's called Swift Playgrounds, and in it, you're tasked with guiding a character called Byte in collecting ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When I spent time around WWDC this past week, one word was on everybody’s lips: Swift. Apple’s newly-announced programming language brings a number of benefits, and marks a major ...

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. Created at IBM's Mobile ...

Apple has officially released the next iteration of its Swift programming language, it’s now on version 4. The new major update builds on Swift 3’s strengths and is source code compatible with the ...

Apple created the new Swift programming language as a better way of building apps for the iPhone, and it was a welcomed thing. Today, about 18 months after it was first unveiled—much to the surprise ...

Apple's Swift programming language officially landed on Windows this week, with Swift toolchain images now available for download from the open source project. Announced in a blog post on Tuesday, the ...

Apple announced on Monday that it has developed a successor to its venerable Objective C with a language it’s calling Swift. Providing a new language with “none of the baggage of C,” Swift code can ...

Learning to code isn’t supposed to be this fun. Apple’s new Swift Playgrounds app for iPads running iOS 10 is aimed at teaching the Swift programming language to middle-school-age children and adults, ...

How to use the Swift Playgrounds iPad app to code on the go Your email has been sent What is a Playground? Downloading Swift Playgrounds Using Swift Playgrounds with ...