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 ...

If you've ever wanted to learn to develop apps for iOS and iPadOS, there's no better time than now to start learning. Here are the best resources to help you get started. According to ZipRecruiter, ...

Apple thinks it is critically important that everyone learn how to code. It may not help you in your job directly, but it teaches useful skills and creates a basic knowledge of the fundamental ...

One of the nice surprise introductions at WWDC was Swift Playgrounds, a new app coming to the iPad and iOS 10 that will help teach kids (or anyone, really) how to code with Swift. Apple introduced ...

Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009. Through his experience deploying ...

Joel Gratcyk's son Wesley spends a few hours a week learning to code in Python, PHP, and Swift. Wesley started taking free courses when he was 7 and uses both online and library resources. Gratcyk ...

Swift Playgrounds is a wonderful introduction to programming. It introduces imperative logic, functions, methods, loops, and many of the marvelous APIs that are available to iOS developers. But it’s ...

The free app cleverly disguised as a video game teaches kids how to use Apple’s Swift programming language, and to maybe build apps of their own. Now that it’s on Mac, it might be easier for kids to ...