There are lots of initiatives to teach kids how to code, including ventures from Google, Minecraft and even the Star Wars franchise. However, with Swift Playground, Apple is actually prepping kids for ...

Does anyone here do any coding on an iPad? If so, just wondering what you use and how you find the experience. I’ve got an iPad Pro 10.5 and will be getting the keyboard for it soon (should be ...

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 ...

Panic is bringing its popular Mac coding app, Coda to the iPad as Diet Coda. The newly announced Diet Coda will come to the iOS App Store on March 24, and will offer most of the web coding features of ...

Essentially the Garage Band of coding, smart iPad coding editor Codea has received a major update. Adding a new iOS 7 interface and full 64-bit support for the iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina ...

At last year’s Apple WWDC conference, the company’s “one more thing” kicker at its keynote wasn’t a headline-grabber–but it was nonetheless intriguing. The company introduced Swift Playgrounds, an ...

Swift Playgrounds is a wonderful introduction to programming. It introduces imperative logic, functions, methods, loops, and many of the marvelous APIs that are available to iOS developers. But it’s ...

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 ...

Playing with toys that teach coding isn't going to guarantee your child will create the next Facebook and amass Zuckerburg-esque fortunes. However, things like the Sphero SPRK+ or Google Bloks could ...