To help advance computer science education in the US, Apple is launching a new, no-cost coding course for teachers.

Apple’s Swift Playgrounds platform, which the company unveiled last month and will be launching later this year, uses puzzles to teach newcomers the basics of writing computer code. The games ...

Apple has also freshened up its Everyone Can Code coding course, which is aimed at students in US grades 4 through 8 and uses puzzles and games to teach Swift via the Swift Playgrounds app.

The app lets anyone with an iPad solve coding puzzles in a game-like environment, based on Apple’s Swift language, and grow to write more sophisticated code, like playful physics simulations ...

Apple introduced a new coding curriculum, Everyone Can Code, which aims to teach anyone to code with a new app called Swift Playgrounds.

In 2014, Apple introduced a programming language called Swift that made waves in the developer community -- not just for its power and flexibility, but for how easy it is to learn. So easy, in ...

APPLE is offering Britain’s schoolchildren the opportunity to learn coding skills for free. Kids will get to take on fun, challenging tasks – like coding and programming robots using an iPad … ...

As Apple describes it, Playgrounds is pretty much a wide open sandbox for coding on iOS. “The possibilities of Playgrounds are enormous,” says Wiley Hodges, a product marketing director at Apple.

Apple today announced its plans for a new, free resource aimed at helping educators of all skill levels gain the ability to teach both Swift and Xcode -- ...

Swift Playgrounds, launched last year during Apple’s 2016 Worldwide Developers Conference, is effectively a video game that teaches kids how to code using Apple’s Swift programming language.