Swift Playgrounds

For the playgrounds feature of the Xcode development environment, see Playgrounds (Xcode feature).
Swift Playgrounds
Developer(s)Developer Tools Department
Apple Inc
Initial releaseiPad
September 13, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-09-13)
macOS
February 11, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-02-11)
PlatformiPadOS, macOS
Available inDutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
TypeEducation App
Websitewww.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/ Edit this on Wikidata

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.[1] It was introduced as an iPad application alongside iOS 10, with a macOS version introduced in February 2020.[2] It is available for free via Apple's App Store for iPadOS and Mac App Store for macOS.

In addition to publishing the Swift Playgrounds application itself, Apple also produces a series of educational lessons teaching programming and debugging skills.[3] The application can also subscribe to lessons and other content published by third parties,[4][5] including lessons allowing users to control educational toys such as Lego Mindstorms EV3 and Sphero robots.[6] Apple publishes a curriculum guide for educators wishing to incorporate Swift Playgrounds into their teaching.[7]

  1. ^ "Getting Started with Swift - WWDC 2016 - Videos". Apple Developer. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
  2. ^ Lyles, Taylor (2020-02-12). "Apple's free learn-to-code Swift Playgrounds sandbox arrives on Mac". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  3. ^ "Education - K-12 - Teaching Code". Apple. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  4. ^ "Create Your Own Swift Playgrounds Subscription - WWDC 2018 - Videos". Apple Developer. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  5. ^ "Apple releases Swift Playgrounds 2.0 with playground subscription options, more". AppleInsider. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
  6. ^ "Swift Playgrounds". Apple. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  7. ^ Apple Inc. (September 2017). "Swift Playgrounds Curriculum Guide" (PDF). Apple - Everyone can code.