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by thoughtsimple 3621 days ago
I think you need to dig deeper into Swift Playgrounds. The iPad user can definitely start their own playground outside of the preprogrammed ones provided by Apple.

In addition, you as a developer can create additional playgrounds in Xcode and transfer them to Swift Playgrounds on the iPad. That means you can give the kids a basic template and allow them to fill in the code. For example, create a template with a couple of pages with the imports already complete and a basic template of empty procedures to get them started.
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janekm 3621 days ago
And from watching the WWDC session it seems the playgrounds can have access to the whole iOS SDK, including rather fun stuff like corebluetooth so there is a huge amount of potential in Playgrounds.
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ontouchstart 3621 days ago
I just did an experiment of upload XCode playground to iPad via AirDrop. It worked.

https://twitter.com/ontouchstart/status/753801598367731712

However, with the .playgroundbook format (folder), it seems that I can only export it to Mac (as a folder) and can not AirDrop back to iPad. And it seems that XCode 8 beta-2 does not support playgroundbook yet.

I am keeping an eye on Apple documentation:

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/docum...

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