How To Use Google Mobile Game To Learn JavaScript For Free

We all know Google well, but apart from its popular products and services like Gmail, Assistant, Youtube, etc., there are tons of other experimental apps that you may have never heard of.

A lot of them were created at Area 120, a Google workshop for experimental products, where most of them end up being fun apps with distractive new features. But you can't say the same for Grasshopper, an A120 mobile game with fun puzzles that helps users learn the fundamentals of JavaScript.

Just like Duolingo which teaches people French, Spanish and other languages, Grasshopper is similarly designed to help beginners learn, and it's important to note that the app won't turn you to Mark Zuckerberg or a coding genius overnight.

Once you open Grasshopper for the first time, you'll be asked if you have any coding experience, after which you'll complete a short tutorial, and then you'll be able to pick your practice schedule, where daily reminder is recommended.

The lessons in Grasshopper comes in form of intriguing series of puzzles and quizzes which gets interestingly difficult the more you advance forward. According to Laura Holmes, founder of Grasshopper:

“Each coding puzzle has the student writing real JavaScript code using a custom built code editing environment. The student is given a challenge, and the user has to solve it using code, but it only takes a few taps to write out.”

Grasshopper is available for download via Google Play Store and Apple App Store.