A game that allows players to experience the process of software development can be an excellent way to introduce programming concepts and concepts in coding like loops and conditional statements. Games that accomplish this include Zachtronics Shenzhen I/O which puts players in the shoes of disaffected engineers who work for an uninteresting chip company and have to design computer chips by hand. The circuits they’re asked to design get more difficult, starting with making the lights flash in a particular pattern.
The game’s interface is very similar to that is found in browsers, and it teaches scripting. Screeps is a different excellent example, which combines JavaScript code with massively multi-player online gaming to build self sustaining colonies. Both games do a great job of teaching the basics as well as slowly introduce new ones.
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