Don’t force people to “learn to code.” Just make coding easier.

Everyone should experience coding, agreed. But how?

Everyone from Will.I.Am. and Karlie Kloss to Mark Zuckerberg and President Obama wants you to “learn to code.” Governors across the country are…

Words of Wisdom from a 12 Year Old Supercoder

Meet Kedai.

Don’t Break The Chain

We’re almost a month into 2016 — have you kept up your New Year’s Resolutions? Did you even make one? Don’t worry — it’s not too late to legit do something differently this year, and it’s not even that hard.

Why should your kids learn computational thinking?

When I was a kid, I carried a notebook everywhere so I could write down ideas. My brain bubbled with story plot lines, craft projects, and inventions. But when it came time to execute the idea, I frequently faltered. Writing a whole story at…

Poop is okay.

How the poop emoji ended up in our Official Company Values.

What’s so great about creativity anyway?

“Creativity” is a popular educational buzzword, but is it important?

By Meg from the Hopscotch team

Introducing: Coding with Text in Hopscotch

The end of summer means some great new features to make your coding experience in…

Stuck in a creative rut? Try this trick.

When faced with 50 different pasta sauces, which do you choose? If you can make anything you can imagine, where do you begin? Choice, it turns out, can actually lead to less great outcomes when it overwhelms us. Adults aren’t the only ones who experience this…

Kids explore Newton’s laws of motion at Hopscotch and create fun games!