Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET News, with occasional forays into tech and pop culture. Formerly a CNET Reviews senior editor for software, he has written about ...

Add iOS's essential programming language Swift 3 to your skillset with 85 hours of lessons. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals If you’re looking for a new addition to your professional skill set, learning to ...

About a year ago, I started learning how to code in Swift, Apple’s app development language. The idea was to eventually be able to build my own iOS apps from scratch and rediscover the fun of coding.

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Mac and iOS developers are taking hard looks at Swift, Apple's new programming language introduced this month at WWDC in San Francisco. Some urgent questions include whether Swift is good or bad, ...

The iPad app starts with easy programming techniques but moves well beyond the basics as you send a character around an island in the sky to collect gems. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Apple introduced a new programming language Monday at its WWDC 2014 keynote, called Swift. But why? All Mac and iOS apps are built with Apple’s toolset called Xcode, but central to Xcode is the ...

When I was in college (a long, long time ago), computer science was in its infancy. My only exposure to computers was a single required course, Programming in Fortran. I remember it involved stacks of ...

One of the last but most-praised items unveiled at today’s WWDC keynote was a new app called Swift Playgrounds. The iPad app aims to teach Apple’s Swift programming language to kids (and adults).

Apple's Swift Playgrounds app received its first update today, introducing a new set of coding lessons and a few new features to enhance the coding experience. Included in the update is the "Learn to ...

Apple announced its Swift Playgrounds app at WWDC yesterday, which will teach kids to code in Swift. Interwoven between CEO Tim Cook’s talk of freeing kids’ minds with code and setting them up for ...