Swift Playgrounds: Previewing Apple's remarkable new portal to codeRene Ritchie has been covering Apple and the personal technology industry for almost a decade. Editor-in-chief of iMore, executive editor for Mobile Nations, video and podcast host, you can follow him on Snapchat or Twitter @reneritchie.
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Swift Playgrounds is going to change the way we learn to code, for generations to come.
Swift Playgrounds for iPad — although the words "one more thing" weren't said out loud before its introduction at WWDC 2016, that's exactly the importance it was given. And deservedly so.
Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, announced it, and Cheryl Thomas, vice president of software engineering operations, showed it off: A technical marvel with a coding environment, made multitouch, directly manipulable, and fully accessible, melded with an educational miracle, teaching coding itself in a way that's engaging, empowering, and approachable to everyone.
It's not just the mainstreaming of technology — something Apple has proven themselves ...
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Swift Playgrounds: Previewing Apple's remarkable new portal to code
