Preview: Apple’s Swift Playgrounds is built for kids, but adults might like it too

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by Sindy Cator on July 14, 2016 at 3:59 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev

Heading into WWDC, iOS developers from all corners of Twitter loudly proclaimed that Apple should make an Xcode app for the iPad. ‘Coding on the iPad is the next generation!’ they said. They were right — sort of. Coding on an iPad is for the next generation of developers, and the future is here. Swift Playgrounds — now available in beta and officially launching this Fall — is an iPad app aimed at helping kids learn to code. Those vocal developers on social media may not use it, but their kids are going to love it. Playground’s roots If we walk Swift Playgrounds back a bit, we find…