![]() ![]() “We’re not hiding code, or running away from the fact that it is code,” says Wiley Hodges, director of tools and technologies product marketing at Apple. Toys like the Hackaball and Google’s new Project Bloks seek to impart these lessons by tasking children with programming tangible objects.īut Apple employees say Swift Playgrounds stands out because players use real lines of code. ![]() Apps like Lightbot and games found on communicate the core concepts of writing code through basic puzzles. The games and lessons are geared toward middle school students, but they are accessible to anyone with an iPad and a desire to learn how to build apps for Apple’s devices.Īpple’s new platform is just one of a class of apps, games and toys that seek to make computer programming easier to grasp, especially for children. 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.
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