Learning to program

Does your dream app not exist? Then make it yourself with these tools

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swift playgrounds Apple’s own app is a great place to start for aspiring coders of any age who have zero experience. It teaches tech coding concepts with simple and fun lessons. Free, App Store (iPad)

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udacity This covers a plethora of languages, as well as data science and artificial intelligence – ideal for those wanting to learn a broad range of coding skills. Free, App Store, Google Play

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codea If you want to build full-fledged apps right on an iPad, this is for you. There are lots of example projects to dissect and help you learn your way around. £14.99, App Store (iPad)

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CODA This is a full-featured text editor that supports a variety of coding languages, with syntax highlighting, a rich snippet system and even an SSH terminal. £23.99, App Store

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TE XTASTI C CODE EDITOR 6 A capable text editor, it has syntax highlighting for over 80 languages and connects to a variety of web servers. £9.99, App Store

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dash Dash is essentially an open-source Wikipedia for over 150 programming documentation sets. You’ll need Xcode to install it on your iOS devices. Free, kapeli.com/dash_ ios