I think we should bring professional coding to hopscotch like app coding

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And also bring in tutorials

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It is just a fun idea

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Hey there! Welcome to the forum!

Can you provide a little more information about your idea?

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I think that the title is obvious but like how swift playgrounds is but way better

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i personally do not understand the title - and i dont think heracc does too. so would you mind if thats not too much to simply rephrase and develop what you mean? thanks!

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do you mean instead of block-based, text-based? like html or java? hopscotch is a kids coding app, so it’s kept simple so its easier to get into coding, but it could be cool to have a js version for hopscotch. then again, it wouldn’t really fit the teams goal for hopscotch.

these are already in the app, you can find them in the “learn” tab!

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Do you mean playable from app stores? If so, that would be really hard with seed requests. And that would mean a lot of copyright laws to pass, so there’s that whole ordeal. I think hopscotch is fine the way it is for now. But good topic!

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Hello!

I’m going to assume you mean coding actual apps on the App Store based on your title. Which would be an awesome idea! This has actually been brought up in the past in a survey so this might one day become part of a special program.

So you are likely talking about an app i think?

Let me know if this helps!

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Java script

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Well basically a new app like “hopscotch java”

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Or say, it could be an additional feature in the app

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Personally I don’t see a purpose in HS Java as I personally see more people learning other programs

Also the whole purpose of HS is for block based coding

I do think it would be interesting to have blocks that were just Java script code if that’s what you mean but I think it’s too complex for a kids coding app.

Interesting idea though!

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i agree, hopscotch was made to help kids with coding - adding this would alter tht’s goal

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Well the reason why I suggested it is because there are other older kids that plan on having a game designer career possibly

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i understand but hopscotch isnt really for that

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That is a great thing! But there are tons of other programs that cater to those people specifically. Not trying to come down on you and make you think it was a bad idea ofc and maybe tht can think abt it!

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yeah. i think that having line coding like Shadertoy will add a new layer of flexibility to the platform, as well as more new features that were previously impossible to do with block coding. Great idea! especially for increasing the hopscotch community age range.

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Yes that is exactly what i am saying

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How about this:
There could be another Hopscotch app revolving around text-based coding!
It could be called Hop[insert the coding language name here], or something like that? :sweat_smile:

oops yeah… BUMP!

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i disagree, but tbh ‘HopTML’ would be an amazing name :laughing:

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