Apple’s Swift Playgrounds Help Families Bond Through Code, Learning To Build Apps Together?
This article discusses the benefits of Apple's new app and how it is cleverly designed to teach real coding to anyone, no matter their level of previous coding experience.
Additional details
Year band(s) | 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 |
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Content type | Article or research |
Format | Web page |
Core and overarching concepts | Implementation (programming) |
Technologies & Programming Languages | other programming languages |
Keywords | Coding, Computational thinking |
Organisation | Parent Herald |
Copyright | 2016 Parent Herald. May be subject to Copyright Act statutory licence. |
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