Apple's Swift Playgrounds inspires Chinese programmers

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about Swift Playgrounds young developers app at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference(WWDC) in the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, June 13, 2016. [Photo/IC]

According to the company, Swift Playgrounds includes Apple developed programming lessons where students write code to guide onscreen characters through an immersive graphical world, solving puzzles and mastering challenges as they learn core coding concepts.

"I wish Swift Playgrounds was around when I was first learning to code," said Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice-president of software engineering.

"Although the performance of cording on iPad through Swift Playgrounds will not be as smooth as on laptop or even PC, the interactive features will inspire children who enjoy coding and are interested in computers," said An Zhehong, a software engineering major at Shanghai-based Tongji University.

An began learning coding when he went to university and he said that by helping young generation approach coding in an early age will stimulate kids and generate new ideas.