The iPad app starts with easy programming techniques but moves well beyond the basics as you send a character around an island in the sky to collect gems. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

In 2014, Apple introduced a new programming language called Swift. Though that might not seem like much to everyday users like you and me, this announcement was actually a pretty big deal for the ...

One of the last but most-praised items unveiled at today’s WWDC keynote was a new app called Swift Playgrounds. The iPad app aims to teach Apple’s Swift programming language to kids (and adults).

A Mashable Choice Award is a badge of honor, reserved for the absolute best stuff we’ve tested and loved. I’ve been in the tech publishing industry for 25 years, but that no more makes me a programmer ...

Along with releasing iOS 10 and Swift 3.0, Apple this week introduced Swift Playgrounds, a free iPad app that teaches how to use the company's young programming language to build apps for its flagship ...

This year, Apple embarked on a mission to help teach kids how to code, so it developed Swift Playgrounds to make it fun, even for grown-ups. Now, Apple is bringing the fun to its stores. In addition ...

Apple announced its Swift Playgrounds app at WWDC yesterday, which will teach kids to code in Swift. Interwoven between CEO Tim Cook’s talk of freeing kids’ minds with code and setting them up for ...

Code rules everything around me. And you. Really: be it the stoplight you stared at this morning, or the train you rode in on, or the lil’ robot vacuum keeping your floor ever-so-slightly cleaner ...

Right at the end of the WWDC 2016 keynote, Apple announced Swift Playgrounds. This is a new app from Apple that is designed to allow children to learn to program on an iPad. This is a first from Apple ...

If you've installed the iOS 10 public beta since it came out last week, you’ll know that compatible iPads come loaded with the “Swift Playgrounds” app that Apple announced at WWDC. The app is Apple’s ...

Heading into WWDC, iOS developers from all corners of Twitter loudly proclaimed that Apple should make an Xcode app for the iPad. ‘Coding on the iPad is the next generation!’ they said. They were ...

He looks like a Minion, one of those yellow, cycloptic creatures from Despicable Me, except he's brown and pear-shaped. And he wears what appears to be a fanny pack. So, really, he looks more like a ...