“Learn to Code?” Meh. “Build Something?” Now We’re Talking, Says Hopscotch’s Jocelyn Leavitt.
“Parents might say, ‘You should learn how to code,’” said Jocelyn Leavitt, co-founder and CEO of Hopscotch. “I think kids don’t necessarily respond to that, but if you’re like ‘Hey, would you like to build your own game?’ — kids are really excited about that.”……..Since then, the app has helped people save 1.5 million projects — which gives you a sense of how many people use it, as most every Hopscotch user has saved at least once — and compiled 57 million blocks of code. It’s also now easier to preview and debug programs, and to save functions for later use.
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