Swift Playground
Swift Playground gives you a guided way to learn Swift and SwiftUI, even without coding experience, and progress from interactive puzzles to building your own Apple apps.
by Apple
What you get
You can go from your first coding puzzle to your own Apple app.
You get a place to start coding without needing previous experience. Guided lessons introduce programming concepts through puzzles, and you see your instructions play out in an interactive 3D world. When something is unclear, you can consult built-in explanations or step through code one line at a time.
As you move beyond exercises, you can explore sample projects and build your own apps with SwiftUI. Live previews show what your changes do as you type, so you can experiment and check the result immediately. Code suggestions, error hints, and automatic formatting help you spend less time on typing and common mistakes.
Your work can grow beyond a lesson: you can share projects, move app projects between Swift Playground and Xcode, and submit completed apps through App Store Connect.
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Start without coding experience
You learn programming basics through guided puzzles, with explanations and built-in help when you need them.
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Understand what your code does
You see results immediately and can follow individual lines as they run in playground books.
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Build your own apps
You turn lessons into SwiftUI apps, checking interface changes live as you type.
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Take projects further
You can share your work, continue app projects in Xcode, or submit completed apps through App Store Connect.
Best for
- You're learning to code for the first time
- You want hands-on practice with Swift and SwiftUI
- You want to build your first Apple app
Skip it if
You don't need it if you have no interest in learning Swift or building Apple apps.
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From the developer
Swift Playground makes it fun to learn to code and build real apps. You solve interactive puzzles in the guided “Get Started with Code” and learn the basics of building apps in “Get Started with Apps.” You experiment with a wide range of challenges and samples that let you explore unique coding experiences.Read the full description
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