Posted on 06/16/2016 6:05:42 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
During the keynote of the recent WWDC, Tim Cook argued that every child should be taught a programming language in school. Further, he argued that Apple's Swift programming language is the best choice for the programming language children should learn. He pointed out that SWIFTIn furtherance of the objective of teaching children SWIFT, Apple announced and demonstrated “Swift Playground” for the iPad. Swift Playground will allow the learner to use SWIFT statements to command turns and motion by a fuzzy critter, or to cause a bunch of icons on the display to respond to movement of the user manipulating the iPad. IOW, under “Swift Playground,” the learner has access to the gyro and the accelerometer in the iPad.
- is open source,
- is used and useful for Apple developers,
- is very easy to learn, and creates very fast code
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