Google’s Area 120 has released a new smartphone app designed to teach beginners how to write code. It’s called Grasshopper , and it kind of feels like Duolingo for coding.

Google’s in-house incubator Area 120 has just released an app called Grasshopper, which teaches you how to code JavaScript through a series of fun mini-games. From Google’s Area 120.

Using JavaScript, you can radically transform HTML documents, adding functionality to static web pages and even creating full-blown web applications. At its core, JavaScript can do anything that ...

The app was made through Area 120, Google’s incubator for projects that employees want to build during their “20 percent time,” the time they can use to work on whatever they want, Engadget ...

This spring, New York’s Fog Creek Software launched Glitch, a site that hosts hundreds of simple web apps—everything from Tetris clones to databases and to-do lists—written using Javascript ...

“With this announcement, every JavaScript developer can code on Salesforce,” said Anne DelSanto, executive vice president and general manager for platform at Salesforce.