Apple's new coding course helps teachers learn how to teach students to develop apps for iOS and macOS.

It makes no sense that Swift Playgrounds is exclusively available for iPad, and Xcode is available exclusively for Mac. What a huge barrier to learning it is to lock it behind yet another ...

Swift Playgrounds have been a feature of Xcode on macOS for some time. Playgrounds are files of code that can be used to experiment with various programming structures outside of a full Xcode ...

The courses are built around Apple's coding curriculum and its development tool, Xcode, which is used to create apps for the company's platforms. Xcode is free to download on Mac.

If you've ever wanted to learn to develop apps for iOS and iPadOS, there's no better time than now to start learning. Here are the best resources to help you get started.

The Xcode 13.2 update, which comes with new features, hints at the upcoming release of Swift Playgrounds 4.

Apple’s Swift Playgrounds are a great way to learn coding, but there’s a huge gap between learning on the iPad and doing on a Mac.

“I wish Swift Playgrounds was around when I was first learning to code,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “Swift Playgrounds is the only app of ...

Swift has come a long way in the meantime, and with tools like code completion and Swift Assist, Apple is catching up with competitors like Microsoft that have used AI to enhance developer tools for a ...