How to do it...

With Xcode downloaded, let's create our first Swift playground:

1. Launch Xcode from the icon in your dock.
2. From the welcome screen, choose Get started with a playground:

1. From the template chooser, select the blank template from the iOS tab:

1. Choose a name for your playground and a location to save it:

1. You are now presented with a view that looks like this:

1. Let's replace the word playground with Swift!.
2. Click on the blue play icon in the bottom left-hand corner of the window to execute the code in the playground:

1. Congratulations! You have just run some Swift code.

1. On the right-hand side of the window, you will see the output of each line of code in the playground. We can see that our line of code has output "Hello, Swift!":