Advanced lessons in Playgrounds introduce users to more complex features such as Apple's Bluetooth and Augmented Reality development platform (ARKit) APIs. As challenges become more difficult, more complex algorithms are required to solve them and new concepts are introduced. In each challenge, young coders are asked to assist these characters achieving simple goals by coding simple instructions. Once stored on the iPad, these can be copied and modified without the need of an active internet connection.Īpple's initial lessons, available for all Swift Playgrounds users to download, introduce three characters: Byte, Blu, and Hopper.

The app allows users to download lessons and challenges. Swift Playgrounds was designed to be a development environment and an education tool simultaneously. The goal of this exercise is to help Byte collect a gem using a combination of simple commands.

Apple publishes a curriculum guide for educators wishing to incorporate Swift Playgrounds into their teaching. The application can also subscribe to lessons and other content published by third parties, including lessons allowing users to control educational toys such as Lego Mindstorms EV3 and Sphero robots. In addition to publishing the Swift Playgrounds application itself, Apple also produces a series of educational lessons teaching programming and debugging skills. It is available for free via Apple's App Store for iPadOS and Mac App Store for macOS. It was introduced as an iPad application alongside iOS 10, with a macOS version introduced in February 2020. Swift Playgrounds is an educational tool and development environment for the Swift programming language developed by Apple Inc., initially announced at the WWDC 2016 conference. Swift Playgroundsĭutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish For the playgrounds feature of the Xcode development environment, see Playgrounds (Xcode feature).

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