A Mashable Choice Award is a badge of honor, reserved for the absolute best stuff we’ve tested and loved. I’ve been in the tech publishing industry for 25 years, but that no more makes me a programmer ...

Right at the end of the WWDC 2016 keynote, Apple announced Swift Playgrounds. This is a new app from Apple that is designed to allow children to learn to program on an iPad. This is a first from Apple ...

Calling it "fast, modern, safe and interactive," Apple on Monday unveiled Swift, a brand new Xcode programming language that it says is superior to Objective-C. In a demonstration, Apple showed off ...

Code rules everything around me. And you. Really: be it the stoplight you stared at this morning, or the train you rode in on, or the lil’ robot vacuum keeping your floor ever-so-slightly cleaner ...

Apple has made Swift Playgrounds available for download, and provides a way to teach beginners and children how to code on its Swift programming language on the iPad. Swift Playgrounds includes ...

In 2014, Apple introduced a new programming language called Swift. Though that might not seem like much to everyday users like you and me, this announcement was actually a pretty big deal for the ...

There are lots of initiatives to teach kids how to code, including ventures from Google, Minecraft and even the Star Wars franchise. However, with Swift Playground, Apple is actually prepping kids for ...

When Apple unveiled a new programming language at its World Wide Developers Conference on Monday, the place went "nuts," erupting with raucous cheers and applause. It was the coding-world equivalent ...

Apple yesterday announced Swift 5, which it describes as a major milestone release of the increasingly popular open source programming language used for iOS and other Apple operating systems. To help ...

One recent evening, I spent my 40-minute commute guiding a friendly cyclops around a maze in search of gems. After moving the creature with a series of taps, he managed to navigate his way across the ...