Swift Playgrounds expands coding education to robots, drones and musical instruments

Cupertino, California — #apple today announced that Swift Playgrounds, its #educational coding #app for #ipad, will offer an exciting new way to learn to code using robots, drones and musical instruments. Swift Playgrounds is perfect for students and beginners learning to code with Swift, Apple’s powerful and intuitive programming language for building world-class apps. #apple is working with leading device makers to make it easy to connect to Bluetooth-enabled robots within the Swift Playgrounds #app, allowing kids to program and control popular devices, including LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3, the Sphero SPRK+, Parrot drones and more. The Swift Playgrounds 1.5 update will be available as a free download on the #app Store beginning Monday, June 5.

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