{"id":201937,"date":"2020-02-13T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T06:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/apple-launches-a-new-mac-app-to-help-you-learn-programming-basics\/"},"modified":"2020-02-13T09:37:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T06:37:15","slug":"apple-launches-a-new-mac-app-to-help-you-learn-programming-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/apple-launches-a-new-mac-app-to-help-you-learn-programming-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple launches a new Mac app to help you learn programming basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/02\/Apple-switft-playground-796x425.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-organization\" id=\"urn:enhancement-ed2eb10c-bce9-dfb8-e345-a87476c5efed\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.thenextweb.com\/tnw\/entity\/apple_inc\">Apple<\/span> has brought its\u00a0Swift Playground app to Mac to help you learn to code in <span class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-organization\" id=\"urn:enhancement-1f597db4-1f85-eb69-9327-701b28551f64\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.thenextweb.com\/tnw\/entity\/society_for_worldwide_interbank_financial_telecommunication\">Swift<\/span>.\u00a0The company originally launched the app on iPad in 2016 with an aim to encourage kids learn programming.<\/p>\n<p>As 9to5Mac noted, the app is made in Catalyst \u2014 Apple\u2019s program to make it easier for developers to write one app for Mac and iPad.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Read: GitHub launches an Indian subsidiary to boost its developer community]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the app description, Apple said it is made for people with no prior knowledge of coding:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-test-bidi=\"\">Swift Playgrounds requires no coding knowledge, so it\u2019s perfect for students just starting out, from twelve to one-hundred-and-twelve. The whole time you are learning Swift, a powerful programming language created by Apple and used by professionals to build many of today\u2019s most popular apps. Code you write works seamlessly as you move between Mac and iPad.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, you need not worry if you haven\u2019t paid attention to your Computer Science class.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, you need to download Xcode to learn coding in Swift. Apple\u2019s new app makes it a bit easier for you if you\u2019re just starting out.<\/p>\n<p>The Swift Playground app mostly uses drag and drop action of ready and commonly-used code snippets to make you familiar with concepts of computer programming. Because of the Catalyst project, you can also use a single file across Mac and iPad.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the app here.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apple\/2020\/02\/13\/apple-launches-a-new-mac-app-to-help-you-learn-programming-basics\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Apple has brought its\u00a0Swift Playground app to Mac to help you learn to code in Swift.\u00a0The company originally launched the app on iPad in 2016 with an aim to encourage kids learn programming. As 9to5Mac noted, the app is made in Catalyst \u2014 Apple\u2019s program to make it easier for developers to write one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}