Awesome-Swift-Playgrounds.md

Awesome Swift Playgrounds

A curated list of awesome Swift playgrounds.

Contributing

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If you see a playground here that does not work anymore with the current release of Xcode or is not a good fit, please submit a pull request to improve this file or consider updating it. Thank you!

Tags

🌟 = My personal favorites

Contents

• Learning Swift
• Learning Swift: Advanced Topics
  • Design Patterns
  • Protocol Oriented Programming
  • Functional Reactive Programming
• Apple's Playgrounds
• Playgrounds about Playgrounds
• Algorithms and Data Structures
• UIKit And Graphics
  • Core Image
  • Metal
  • Animations
  • SpriteKit
• Audio
• Mathematics
• Libraries
• Playground sets
• Miscellaneous

Learning Swift

Some interesting playgrounds to learn Swift

• Learn Swift - 30+ playgrounds that follow the "Language Guide" section of Apple's Swift book. 🌟 ^{★ 652, pushed 252 days ago}
• The Swift Programming Language Playgrounds - 40+ playgrounds, one for each chapter of Apple's Swift book. 🌟 ^{★ 76, pushed 167 days ago}
• Swift Reference Playground - Reference playground with basic language syntax and examples. ^{★ 52, pushed 809 days ago}
• Swift Worksheets - Learn Swift by reading through and experimenting with playgrounds. ^{★ 1, pushed 774 days ago}
• Swift Crash Course - A Swift crash course, with links explaining the language and a playground for each topic. ^{★ 6, pushed 168 days ago}
• Swift-Introduction - Collection of playgrounds covering various aspect of the Swift language. ^{★ 51, pushed 148 days ago}
• Swift2 by Playgrounds - Learn Swift 2.0 from playgrounds. ^{★ 8, pushed 273 days ago}
• Swift Hack Pack - Collection of playgrounds that teaches Swift.
• SwiftStandardLibraryPlaygrounds - A collection of playground demonstrating the use of the Swift Standard Library. ^{★ 15, pushed 690 days ago}
• MPCS51030 UChicago iOS Course - Playgrounds from the 2015 iOS course of the University of Chicago. ^{★ 2, pushed 381 days ago}
• The Swift Summary Book - A summary of Apple's Swift language. 🌟 ^{★ 1278, pushed 131 days ago}
• Swifter Tips - Examples for every feature of the Swift language.

Learning Swift: Advanced Topics

Advanced topics, useful once you have mastered the basics of the language

• A Swift Introduction to Core Data - Learn Code Data experimenting directly in this playground. 🌟
• Swiftly Typed Resources - A playground showing how Swift makes Strings, Colors, Fonts, Images, etc easier to deal with. ^{★ 70, pushed 370 days ago}
• TDDSwiftPlayground - Demonstration of using Swift Playgrounds in Test Driven Development with XCTest. ^{★ 14, pushed 303 days ago}
• Swift DSL Example - Implementation of a DSL in Swift. ^{★ 7, pushed 312 days ago}
• Swift KVO Closures - Swift KVO playground. ^{★ 7, pushed 753 days ago}
• Swift Data Tutorial - Learn everythig about NSDate. ^{★ 5, pushed 245 days ago}
• Swift And C - Examples about using C with Swift. ^{★ 0, pushed 311 days ago}
• Swift Memory Management - How to avoid retain cycles, from this post . ^{★ 0, pushed 227 days ago}
• Concurrency on iOS - Concurrency and Parallelism in iOS.

Design Patterns

• Design Patterns Playgrounds - Playground that show various traditional design patterns. ^{★ 25, pushed 172 days ago}
• Design Patterns Playground - Learning GoF's Design Patterns in Swift 2. ^{★ 5, pushed 143 days ago}

Protocol Oriented Programming

• Swift Diagram Playgrounds - Adaptation of the Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift talk from WWDC 2015. ^{★ 219, pushed 279 days ago}
• Swift Protocol Extensions - A playground to explore Protocol Extensions. ^{★ 18, pushed 393 days ago}
• Battleship Example - An example of how to use Protocol Oriented Programming with the battleship game. ^{★ 3, pushed 215 days ago}

Functional Reactive Programming

• ReactiveCocoa Playground - The easiest way to get a taste of ReactiveCocoa. ^{★ 84, pushed 206 days ago}
• Swift Reactive Playground - Companion to the article: ReactiveCocoa made Simple With Swift. ^{★ 23, pushed 733 days ago}

Apple's Playgrounds

Playgrounds from Apple, usually presented at some WWDC

• Apple's Mandelbrot Playground - A playground with the mandelbrot fractal (updated to Swift2 by @palmerc). ^{★ 2, pushed 229 days ago}
• Apple's Balloons Playground - The balloons playground showed at WWDC14.
• Interactive Playgrounds - Playground that presents the interactive playgrounds feature with a UIKit dynamics Newton's cradle. 🌟
• Apple's Crustacean Playground - Protocol-Oriented Programming with Value Types
• Apple's Swift Standard Library Playground - experiment with Swift standard library types and high-level concepts using visualizations and practical examples.

Playgrounds about Playgrounds

Playgrounds that describe what you can do with playgrounds

• Interactive Playground - Exploring interactivity in Playgrounds in Xcode 7.3. ^{★ 29, pushed 213 days ago}
• XCTest Playground - Better looking tests for playgrounds ^{★ 4, pushed 215 days ago}
• Mondrian - Make iOS app mockups in Swift 2.x playgrounds. ^{★ 0, pushed 225 days ago}

Algorithms and Data Structures

Algorithms and data structures implemented in Swift

• Learn about transducers - A little tutorial that explains transducers. ^{★ 60, pushed 659 days ago}
• Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures - Companion to the article: Swift Functors, Applicatves, and Monads in Pictures. ^{★ 33, pushed 259 days ago}
• Functors in Swift - A playground to introduce Functors in Swift, and their practical usage. ^{★ 6, pushed 421 days ago}
• DataStructures Playground - Data Structures and Algorithms in Swift. ^{★ 13, pushed 433 days ago}
• Swiftography - Standard cryptographic algorithms in a Swift Playground. ^{★ 8, pushed 217 days ago}
• Algorithms Playground - Various algorithm implementation in Swift. ^{★ 1, pushed 460 days ago}
• Dynamic Programming With Swift - A set of three dynamic programming problems implemented in a Swift. ^{★ 0, pushed 256 days ago}
• Swift Algorithm Club - Algorithms and data structures in Swift with explanations. 🌟
• Sorting Experiments - Alluring experiments with sorting algorithms in Swift, sort of. ^{★ 2, pushed 151 days ago}
• The Jelly Bean Problem - The Jelly Bean problem from Wait But Why. ^{★ 2, pushed 179 days ago}
• Euclidean Strings - A playground leveraging ReSwift to generate Euclidean Strings. ^{★ 1, pushed 160 days ago}

UIKit And Graphics

A list of playgrounds that demostrate various aspect of UIKit and other graphical frameworks

• UIStackView Playground - Interesting examples of use of UIStackViews.🌟 ^{★ 248, pushed 288 days ago}
• Bezier Path Playgrounds - Some playgrounds to better understand UIBezierPaths. ^{★ 10, pushed 406 days ago}
• RPClarity - Shows a technique for blurring an image behind the characters behind one or more UILabels. ^{★ 33, pushed 390 days ago}
• Swift Clock - An animated clock in a swift playground. ^{★ 14, pushed 661 days ago}
• Checkmark Button - Animated check mark button. ^{★ 5, pushed 220 days ago}
• UIKit playground - Playgrounds to experiment interactively with UIKit views. ^{★ 5, pushed 331 days ago}
• WatchKit Asset Playground - A swift playground for creating awesome animations for your WatchKit Apps. ^{★ 3, pushed 483 days ago}
• Swift 2.0 Protocol Extension Example - Showing how to use Swift2 protocol extensions to render errors in UIViews and UIViewControllers without subclassing or creating classes. ^{★ 39, pushed 343 days ago}
• Tinting - A small playground to demonstrate image tinting in UIKit. ^{★ 0, pushed 277 days ago}
• Animated GIF Playground - Swift playground for generating animated GIFs. ^{★ 2, pushed 187 days ago}
• Ray tracing Playground - A playground and a series of articles on ray tracing, see also part 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 🌟 ^{★ 9, pushed 167 days ago}
• WWDC16 Logo Playground - Drawing the WWDC16 logo in a playground.
• WWDC16 Typography 🇯🇵 - Draw a logo or any text with the WWDC16 ASCII texture.

Core Image

• Interpolation Playground - Playground demonstrating lerp, smooth step, Catcall-Rom and others! ^{★ 22, pushed 189 days ago}
• CoreImage for Swift Playgrounds - Growing collection of CoreImage playgrounds from the upcoming book "CoreImage For Swift". 🌟 ^{★ 16, pushed 157 days ago}
• Image Processor - Implementing different image filter algorithms. ^{★ 0, pushed 313 days ago}

Metal

• METAL Playground - Apple Metal framework playground. 🌟 ^{★ 31, pushed 788 days ago}
• Metalbrot - Interactive playground that draws the Mandelbrot fractal with Metal. 🌟 ^{★ 22, pushed 196 days ago}

Animations

• iOS Animation Samples - Experiment with iOS animations. 🌟 ^{★ 111, pushed 177 days ago}
• Additive Animations - Experiment with multiple additive animations in Core Animation. ^{★ 26, pushed 804 days ago}
• Core Animation Playground - Companion to Apple's Core Animation Programming Guide. ^{★ 2, pushed 377 days ago}
• Duet-Inspired Trail Effect - How to get a Duet style trailing effect in SpriteKit. ^{★ 2, pushed 153 days ago}

SpriteKit

• Sprite Kit Collisions - Demonstrates how to perform physics collision detection using Swift and Sprite Kit. ^{★ 23, pushed 207 days ago}
• SceneKit Examples - Experiment with SceneKit and Swift. ^{★ 10, pushed 505 days ago}

Audio

Sounds and music

• Bach Playground - A Simple Swift Playground that plays a brief piece by Bach with AVAudioEngine and AVMIDIPlayer. ^{★ 2, pushed 399 days ago}
• PlayerNode Playground - Playground using AVAudioEngine with a playernode and effects to play an audio file. 🌟 ^{★ 1, pushed 231 days ago}

Mathematics

Live math with playgrounds

• Lindenmayer Systems - A Swift playground exploring Lindemayer systems. ^{★ 2, pushed 220 days ago}
• Swift Accelerate - Using the Accelerate framework and Swift for Linear Algebra. ^{★ 48, pushed 778 days ago}
• Swifty Mathematics - A collection of swift playground about mathematics. ^{★ 1, pushed 385 days ago}
• Numerical Algorithms - Numerical argorithms playground from Ray Wenderlich.
• Swift Natural Numbers - A playground for implementing the natural numbers and more concepts in number theory. ^{★ 2, pushed 188 days ago}

Libraries

Library tutorials, in a playground

• Argo Playground - JSON decoding with Argo. ^{★ 1, pushed 241 days ago}
• Parse Playground - Experimenting with Parse.com in Swift. ^{★ 3, pushed 246 days ago}
• S3Uploader - A playground to upload images to AWS S3. ^{★ 2, pushed 233 days ago}
• 100 AudioKit Playgrounds - Audio synthesis and processing with AudioKit.
• AIToolbox - A set of playgrounds showing machine learning algorithms, all implemented with pieces of the AIToolbox framework code.
• Realm Swift Playground - A playground that demos the basic features of Realm in swift.

Playground Sets

Sets of playgrounds about various topics

• Public Extensions - A set of useful extensions from @PublicExtension . 🌟 ^{★ 81, pushed 126 days ago}
• Sketchytech's Playgrounds - Various Playgrounds. 🌟 ^{★ 8, pushed 426 days ago}
• Parks And Recreation - Great collection of interesting playgrounds, for fun and for profit. 🌟 ^{★ 61, pushed 139 days ago}
• Swift fun playgrounds - A few playgrounds to showcase Swift peculiar features. ^{★ 5, pushed 537 days ago}
• BradLarson's Playgrounds - Various playgrounds. ^{★ 18, pushed 707 days ago}
• Dmikusa's Playgrounds - Playgrounds that show basic Swift, JSON parsing, sending HTTP requests and basic file IO. ^{★ 12, pushed 420 days ago}
• Cananito's Playgrounds - Various playgrounds. ^{★ 2, pushed 379 days ago}
• Mgrebenets's Playgrounds - Various playgrounds. ^{★ 3, pushed 189 days ago}
• Uberbruns's Playgrounds - Various playgrounds. ^{★ 1, pushed 145 days ago}
• URaimo's Playgrounds - My playgrounds, various topics. ^{★ 49, pushed 150 days ago}
• ManuelCarlos's Playgrouds - Various playgrounds.

Miscellaneous

What doesn't fit anywhere else, but still awesome

• Turtle Playground - A playground with Logo-like commands. 🌟 ^{★ 118, pushed 197 days ago}
• Game Boards - Chess, checkers, tic-tac-toe, sudoku and many others in playground. 🌟 ^{★ 126, pushed 209 days ago}
• Swift Brainfuck - Brainfuck interpreter written in Swift using Playground. ^{★ 5, pushed 821 days ago}
• Icon Creator - Create app icons on Swift playground. ^{★ 2, pushed 209 days ago}
• StarWars Seals - Emblems from Star Wars in Swift playgrounds via CoreGraphics and UIViews ^{★ 2, pushed 235 days ago}
• SwiftFiles - Save, Load and Delete files easily from within a Swift playground. ^{★ 22, pushed 187 days ago}
• Register VM - A register-based VM in a Swift playground. 🌟 ^{★ 2, pushed 215 days ago}
• Earth photos - A slideshow of Earth photos taken by DSCOVR/EPIC. 🌟 ^{★ 1, pushed 136 days ago}
• 2048 Playground - The 2048 game implemented with a playground.