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Apple’s Swift Playgrounds can help you learn to code, but it’s no HyperCard

Byryan July 14, 2016July 14, 2016

Sure enough, 45 minutes into the 2016 WWDC keynote, Tim Cook—not an SVP, but Tim himself!—unveiled Swift Playgrounds for iPad, “a new way to learn to code.” Because I’d been thinking about it, I had my tweet ready: “I personally think a way to learn Swift is not what the iPad needs—it needs a 21st Century…

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Thoughts on Swift Playgrounds — Fraser Speirs

Byryan June 21, 2016June 19, 2016

The other thing that is not entirely obvious is that Playgrounds has full access to the entire iOS API. This means that there is effectively no limit on the complexity of Playground that you can build. You can use APIs like Core Location, WebKit, MapKit, Core Motion, Networking and Core Bluetooth. One of the demos…