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'''Hopscotch''' is a visual [[programming language]] developed by Hopscotch Technologies, designed to allow young or beginner programmers to develop simple projects. It's issimple oneUI allows its users to drag and drop blocks to create scripts of thewhich firstcan programmingbe played when activated. Although the language designedis foreasy mobileto devicesuse, to develop more advaced peices of code is almost impossible and requires more powerful languages. The use of the language is through a tablet or phone supporting Hopscotch.

==Software Development==

The idea sprung from an already existing programming tool, [[Scratch (programming language)]], where the user drags blocks into scripts in succession to create a script. This is found much easier by children then typing out the code manually like other programming languages tend to use. Though the developers wanted to take a step back from Scratch and make it slightly easier to grasp to ability to use, therefore removing many blocks and adding some of their own in hope to make it easier to use.

The most recent version of the application allows users to share their world worldwide (an improvement for the orginal sharing system, which was done by email). The online community is at its first stage of development and is planned many more improvements, such as commenting and possibly rating.

==References==