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Samantha John

Coding is an essential literacy and skill that should be taught more widely in education as it provides a "superpower", but many find coding difficult or intimidating due to complex syntax and programming languages; however, Hopscotch aims to make coding easy and accessible for children by focusing on the core building blocks of programming in a creative and approachable way across different platforms.

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What we do. How we got started. How it works.
Coding is the new literacy
An essential part of education.
Its a superpower.
QuickTime and a H.264 decompressor are needed to see this picture.
So why dont more people learn to code? (scary hard code syntax)
Hopscotch makes it easy for kids to code.
The building blocks of all programming languages.
Targeting the right platform.
The focus is on creating.
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  • #2: Greeting, Introduce ourselves and our names. We make a visual programming language to teach kids to code
  • #3: Jocelyn: anecdote about lego mindstorms vs pink purses. We knew we had to build a toy that could appeal to girls too
  • #4: Jocelyn: Heres what were going to talk about tonight.
  • #5: Jocelyn: - literacy used to be reading, now thats enough. - everything is code, point out devices in the room that are controlled by software? - 10 years ago people thought they had to teach their kids spanish or mandarin, now its code.
  • #6: Jocelyn: - Computer Science is making its way into the curriculum - UK + other counties have mandated Computer Science education for all school kids 1st grade onwards. - NYC is piloting mandatory computer science education for middle and high school students - President Obama pledged 3.1 billion to improving STEM education in the US. In his state of the union address he issued a call to better equip graduates for the high tech economy.
  • #7: Sam: - when you know how to program you can create anything. - This app is just for me and my roommate to split our household bills. - I also made an app that enters all my friends in the online lottery to win tickets to shakespeare in the park - another app creates a gym schedule with only yoga classes in my neighborhood. Next were gonna show you a video from Code.org
  • #9: Sam: - coding is really scary and intimidating - get one little parenthesis wrong and your program wont run - kids are really bad at typing
  • #10: Sam: - Our visual programming language eliminates the need for syntax. You can just drag and drop blocks of code. - Youll never get scary error messages.
  • #11: Sam: - There are thousands of programming languages with different syntaxes - But once you know the basic constructs of computer science you can use them in any language - Loops, variables, branching logic etc.
  • #12: Sam: - We built Hopscotch for tablet devices - Drag-and-drop is really tedious on the desktop but its fun on tablets - Kids love iPads, #1 most requested toy last Xmas - Growth is huge, 47% growth since 2012. Expected that 54% of online Americans will have a tablet by 2014.
  • #13: Jocelyn: - I used to be a teacher and I found that project-based learning was really effective - Kids feel very empowered when they create something through code - Huge desire to show off what they made.