“An amazing platform to learn coding, a great developer tool” is a good definition for Swift Playgrounds, because it summarises two main use cases the platform gives us: on one hand, a way to learn coding (in Swift) with a challenge based approach, where learners are guided in the learning process with incremental steps, concepts and tools, tailored to get programming to more people. On the other hand, a great developer tool to run Swift code on iPad or outside a classic Xcode project/workspace, giving developers the chance to prototype features, easily test interactions which require device capabilities (like accelerometer), isolate issues from large codebase, create learning experiences: in few words, it’s the fastest way to code with Apple’s APIs.

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