Apple, Microsoft and Google teach coding skills to kids.

Apple CEO Tim Cook at its developers conference on Monday announced Swift Playgrounds, a new iPad app to teach coding to kids.

Apple describes Swift Playgrounds as “a revolutionary new app for iPad that makes learning Swift interactive and fun.” Swift is a programming language created by Apple and used to build many of today’s iOS apps. But, as CNET points out, Microsoft and Google have their own initiatives to help kids learn to code.

Swift Playgrounds will be in the Apple App store.

Teachers and schools looking for new opportunities to get students exposed to computer science may like Swift Playgrounds as an option. 

So far, only one in four schools offer computer science classes to students, according to Code.org.

States, though, are beginning to consider adding new curricular requirements across the K-12 spectrum. In California, there is support for including computer science in the Next Generation Science Standards, which have followed up the Common Core’s unified national focus on math and English Language Arts. 

Georgia, Texas, and New Jersey are among the states that already have K-12 computer science curriculum standards, but they remain in the distinct minority

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