On Jippity, kids as young as seven write real code to create games, websites, art, and tools.
How is this possible?
On Jippity, kids team up.
Any kid who can type can use Jippity.
It's the perfect follow-up to Scratch, but brand-new coders are right at home too, as are experienced coders ready to level up. All are welcome.
Watch Kristen introduce Jippity and walk through the basics of creating a project.
A Jippity account costs $30 per month.
That gives you unlimited access to the editor, the AI assistant, and project hosting. You can use any asset in our library and fork any Jippity project.
An hour-long one-on-one coding session with an expert mentor costs $100.
We match every kid with a mentor according to their interests. Mentors teach programming principles, project management, and design.
Kids who want to level up their skills in a structured program can sign up for tutoring through Recess.
We offer a free demo session to anyone curious about tutoring on Jippity.
We teach courses through on coding, game design, science, and music using Jippity.
Courses average $25 per class meeting. If you're curious about courses, feel free to reach out to us.
We put game development at the center of the Jippity learning experience.
Why?
Games are fun. We learned to code so that we could make games.
But more than that, game development covers a huge range of technical and non-technical skills, with coding at its core.
And of course, programming, the glue that holds it all together.
We support game development not just with our in-browser code environment and custom-tuned AI, but also with assets, templates, and mentorship. Kids work hard and take great pride in their projects.
Kristen Montesano is a game developer and software engineer specializing in edtech. After earning her BSc in Child Learning and Development, she served as a teacher and curriculum writer focusing on Game Development and 3D Modeling. Kristen later transitioned to game development in the edtech sector. Kristen founded Jippity driven by her passion for getting kids excited about learning to code. She believes that games serve as an ideal creative introduction to technology, appealing to kids with varying interests. Kristen is based in Denver, Colorado.
Jacob Shulman is a teacher, programmer, and musician from Los Angeles. He began his career as an educator at age 12 as an understudy to his grandmother, a public school teacher who started a tutoring business in her retirement. Jacob coached kids of all ages in math, science, test prep, and essay writing until he became a classroom teacher of math, physics, and computer science in Queens, NY. When he returned to Los Angeles he founded Jippity in order to bring kids the tools and experiences he wished he had had as a video-game-loving kid.
For more structured learning, we offer tutoring through Recess and organized tutorials in text and video for self-directed learners.
Yes! Click the 'Create' tab and type a prompt into the textbox to get started. You can begin a project without an account, but you need to log in/sign up to save projects and send more than 15 messages to the AI. No downloads or special software required, ever.
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