Coding apps for the latest Apple products can be a challenge for some novice developers, but Apple wants to help. Now there’s a new Apple website dedicated to learning some basics about developing with Swift, Apple’s programming language.
All in all, this website has three different sections and chapters, with various lessons for you to browse. The first is devoted to the basics of SwiftUI, exploring Xcode. There you can learn about basic tasks like adding structures, properties, layouts and styles, buttons, lists, and text fields to applications. Meanwhile, the data modeling section deals with tasks such as storing and retrieving data, navigating data, and building relationships for the application. There’s also a section on spatial computing, for the basics of how you might code an app for Apple Vision Pro.
Ahead of WWDC, where coding and developers will be the focus, it’s quite nice to see Apple set up a website like its as it introduces more people to the basics of coding. The website is free to use and you don’t need to sign in with an Apple account to get started. Once you click through to a specific section or chapter, there are step-by-step instructions, complete with screenshots of how you can proceed through the process and lessons. All you need to use it is a Mac running macOS Sonoma or Ventura and Xcode. No iPhone required.