Available on laptops, tablets, and phones.
Hopscotch is an award winning kid-friendly programming environment. Designed with artists, creators, and storytellers in mind, it lets anyone explore real software in a playful, fun, and safe way. The LEGO of the digital age.
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"I look up to you for what you've been able to accomplish and [for] what you've been able to do for my daughters and my son. I mean, thank you. Doing these games with them was thrilling to me."
With Hopscotch, kids develop problem-solving skills while having fun creating and playing games on iPad, iPhone and the web.
"Hopscotch is the only activity I can think of where she uses both her left and right brain."
"My son feels special because you have allowed him to create something that he thought could only be created by tech-savvy adults. He is now looking at apps and seeing possibilities for himself rather than just wanting to buy them to play. As a parent, I am so proud of not only the end result of his programming but the fact that he became totally absorbed in his learning and was able to use problem-solving and creative thinking skills critical for someone to be a successful learner in the 21st century."
"I had ZERO background or programming experience. I actually personally checked all 8 or 10 of these blogs about recommendations. And Hopscotch was the most intuitive and interactive. It's not like you're just playing video games. My daughter loves it!"
"I am THRILLED that there is a safe, interesting, engaging place for children to learn to code. This app really allows his creativity to shine, and his five-year-old little sister has become so interested in the app, and doesn't even know what coding is. THANK YOU, and keep up the good work!"
"My seven-year-old daughter captured the essence of programming after an hour with Hopscotch. Whether or not she goes on to a STEM field, this is going to be an experience she remembers her entire life. You guys are changing lives. Thanks!"
Grow your students' coding skills with Hopscotch.
No previous coding experience required.
Back in in 2013, Samantha John and Jocelyn Leavitt created Hopscotch as a way "to teach their younger selves how to program". An inclusive, friendly, and fun programming tool for kids and kids-at-heart.
Hopscotch was founded with the mission to expose girls and boys, equally, to the powerful ideas of computing. Once a VC-funded company, we're now fully independent. We're still here.
By supporting us, you are supporting independent educational software, not owned by corporations. We don't sell your data, we don't display ads.
We are designers, parents, artists, engineers, architects, educators, and kids at heart, who believe in computing as a medium to explore the world and express ourselves.
Rodrigo is a Mexican Brooklyn-based interface designer, artist, musician, and entrepreneur. He believes computing, just like films, poetry, literature, music, and any other medium, can help us understand something new about the world and ourselves.
Yuanyuan is the smiley face behind the Hopscotch hello email. She studied computer science and art during her time at Princeton (Fun fact: she showed her works at Art Basel in Miami!). Before joining Hopscotch she was a teacher in NYC. She uses her artistic sensibilities to organize fun community events that challenge kids to code their most creative projects.
Ilse is a musician and a video game lover. She started coding after teaching music for several years, hoping to work at a company related to video games. She believes that coding can help expand your creativity, just like the arts.
Jocelyn was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai'i. After graduating from Dartmouth College, Jocelyn taught at the Island School on Kaua'i and at the Dalton School in NYC. She traded in her books for business school at Columbia, but never left behind her love for project-based learning. Hopscotch combined her interests in entrepreneurship and education using constructivist principles to teach kids engineering. Jocelyn serves on the board of NYC's Tech Talent Pipeline and has been honored as one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business. Jocelyn can't escape her island roots as a waterwoman and loves any activities in, above or near the ocean.
Samantha fell in love with programming during her senior year at Columbia. She started Hopscotch to introduce every kid to this fantastic skill. John Holt and Ivan Illich are her favorite radical educators; she cares deeply about empowering kids to learn independently. Samantha aims to be a role model for young coders everywhere. She was proud to be honored in numerous 30 under 30 lists from the BBC to Business Insider to Elle Magazine. Her favorite non-work activity is running, followed by a dip in the ocean.
WHAT IS THE AGE RANGE FOR HOPSCOTCH?
Hopscotch is designed for people ages 10+, but anyone who wants to learn to code and make their own games can use it.
WHAT PLATFORMS CAN I USE HOPSCOTCH ON?
You can use Hopscotch to code on iPads, iPhones, and on the web (ie. any web browser like Safari or Chrome) with any desktop computer, laptop (including Chromebooks), or tablet.
WHERE CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT CODING WITH HOPSCOTCH?
Please check our help docs here: help.gethopscotch.com page for tutorials, lessons, and more.
HOW CAN I GET IN TOUCH IF I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION?
Email us: help@gethopscotch.com. Feedback of any kind welcome. We love hearing from our users.