Grasshopper - The coding app for beginners by Google

I've been using this for a couple months now and the bite sized lessons are really easy to digest and remember for someone getting started! Just another awesome Google product.

I downloaded this last night and played with it some. I like it. I use JavaScript quite a bit, so it was neat.

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Pros:

onboarding experience, progress flow, clear eductational content

Cons:

Points purpose is unclear

Sounds awesome, could definitely be helpful to beginners. Great work :)

The just-in-time onboarding features allows for a fast and welcoming start up as a new user! I love the pathway for viewing my progress and the gamification of the lessons. I think a few tweaks to the directions in some of the exercises might help. I notice that some of the exercises are learn by exploring and failing and that is good, but doesn't feel intuitive in a few of them. That feedback, however, is just a product owner being picky. This is amazing! I love the notification setup flow, the way that you pull the user further into the experience with the onboarding and first exercises. This is great! I set a daily plan and am looking forward to the reminder notification tomorrow!

This is so fuuuuun. Serious kudos! Really well executed. I thought it was interesting that the get help links go to Discourse posts. Just curious, why use this method instead of a pop-up window or in-app kb? I’m not knocking either method, I’m just interested in learning the thoughts behind this Discourse method.

anyone else think, Google is going to start using this app for recruitment purposes down the road?

Played with it and it does seem different from all of the other methods of coding for newbies. The real test will be when we get to a project. It is fun to start, but there is a feeling that you don't go anywhere with this. As with any coding course: different methods work for different personalities. I guess 10 lessons are not enough to evaluate the app.

will it be in Russian?

Enjoyable to use but was disappointed that it wasn't optimised for iPad.

I'd like to use it on a larger screen with keyboard... still I like it a lot.

Pros:

easy to get started, nice design

Cons:

No iPad support :-(