Apple’s Swift Playgrounds can help you learn to code, but it’s no HyperCard

Originally published at: http://eduk8.me/2016/07/apples-swift-playgrounds-can-help-learn-code-no-hypercard/
Sure enough, 45 minutes into the 2016 WWDC keynote, Tim Cook—not an SVP, but Tim himself!—unveiled Swift Playgrounds for iPad, “a new way to learn to code.” Because I’d been thinking about it, I had my tweet ready: “I personally think a way to learn Swift is not what the iPad needs—it needs a 21st Century…