Swift Playgrounds Reviews

1. Nathan

   over 3 years ago
   Terrible online training course

   The lowest available rating score is 1, but if there were a zero, I would rate this program a zero. There are no pros to this programming course. The lessons are so brief that I cannot understand them. Before I gave up for good on this programming course, I was writing tons of messages to people on Youtube asking them to explain things to me, and I hated the constant hassle of having to write online messages asking for explanations for the simplest of things that the lessons did not explain. This programming course is NOT a do-it-yourself training course by any means --- and it should not be used by schoolteachers as student homework assignments, as I recently advised a 13-year-old who was having trouble with the lessons and nothing was being helpful to him. This training course should be accompanied not by brief and intelligible on-screen lessons, but it should be accompanied by a detailed high school-style textbook complete with images. By the way, I have Asperger's syndrome, I have all kinds of problems with learning and with executing tasks, and I cannot participate in gainful employment in ANY profession for this reason.

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Swift Playgrounds mentions (6)

• Lie-to-Children

  Children in China seem to have no trouble learning programming languages with type systems based on System-F. Swift is heavily pushed[1], for children 8+, but of course 6,7-year-olds also learn it. But maybe if we keep lying and making things "easy" for kids in the west they can make a comeback. [1] https://developer.apple.com/swift-playground/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift Apps on Your iPhone

  There's the excellent Swift Playground for iOS, requires an iPad: https://developer.apple.com/swift-playground/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• iPhone DevOps

  You can code in Swift and even submit to the App Store using Swift Playground using an iPad [1]. [1]: https://developer.apple.com/swift-playground/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Claude Code is all you need

  There are plenty of free models available; many that rival their paid counterparts. So that kid interested in trying stuff can use Qwen Coder for free [1]. If the kid's school has Apple Silicon Macs (or iPads), this fall, each one of them will have Apple's 3 billion parameter Foundation Models available to them for free [2]. Swift Playground [3] is a free download; Apple has an entire curriculum for schools. I... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Ask HN: I'm a rookie building an app and need advice. Can you help?

  > I’m using AI to assist me and I’m building an app Vibe coding is a myth, it will take you only so far and will require manual fixes and refactoring before MVP. Learn the basics of and keep learning, say, Swift. https://developer.apple.com/swift-playground/ > Should I actually use a completely blank iPhone for this instead? Does not make any difference. Every app runs in its own separate environment. Only iOS... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

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• Question

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• Is it possible to learn Programming and coding? not a tech graduate.

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