Apple has updated Swift Playgrounds, its educational coding app for iPad, to include what the company describes as “new way to learn to code using robots, drones and musical instruments”.
Swift Playgrounds is aimed at students and beginners learning to code with Swift, Apple’s programming language for building apps.
Apple says it is working with leading device makers to make it easy to connect to Bluetooth-enabled robots within the Swift Playgrounds app, allowing users to program and control popular devices, including Lego Mindstorms Education EV3, the Sphero SPRK+, Parrot drones and more. [Read more…] about Apple extends Swift programming language to support robotics