Hopscotch: Coding For Kids

Resource Type: Game
Engineering Discipline: Computer Engineering
Age Group: 11-13

Hopscotch is a free drag-and-drop coding app that helps kids learn coding. Hopscotch provides a scaffolding learning for coding. This app empowers the students to experiment and write their own code and programs in Hopscotch programming language.

Students need to be independent readers and can access many levels to solve coding problems. Once these have been mastered students can create their own coding programming stories.

The app provides excellent, quirky graphics that look like old school arcade games. The in-app platform and instructions is an excellent resource for students to explore other coding programs that have been uploaded to the Hopscotch community learning hub.