Swift iOS Programming for Kids

Key Features

• Children can express their creativity while learning through interactive Swift Playgrounds
• Empower children to think critically about problems
• Learning programming basics can help children gain confidence in problem solving
• Help children put their imagination into action building their first iOS app

Book Description

This book starts at the beginning by introducing programming through easy to use examples with the Swift Playgrounds app. Kids are regularly encouraged to explore and play with new concepts to support knowledge acquisition and retention – these newly learned skills can then be used to express their own unique ideas. Children will be shown how to create their first iOS application and build their very own movie night application.

What you will learn

• Basic programming and coding fundamentals
• Write code using the fun and interactive Swift Playgrounds app
• Make animations, including creating your own starry night
• Utilise functions by making pizza in code
• Create an interactive toy bin
• Learn how to use control flow statements to further enhance your toy bin
• Build a simple movie night app working with tableviews and arrays

About the Author

Since Swift was announced at WWDC, Steffen D. Sommer has had a passionate interest in the programming language. He's currently working as a lead Vapor developer at a company called Nodes in Copenhagen, where he focuses on developing backend systems using Swift.

In his spare time, he helps organize the local iOS meet up, visits iOS conferences around the