A game that lets players to experience software development is a great way to introduce programming and coding concepts such as loops and conditional statements. Zachtronics Shenzhen I/O is one game that accomplishes this. It puts players in the shoes unhappy engineers working for a non-existent company and have to build computer chips manually. The circuits they have to create become more complicated beginning with making the lights blink in a specific pattern.

The game’s interface is very similar to tools for developers found in browsers and also teaches scripting. Another excellent example is Screeps, which is a game that combines JavaScript programming and massively multiplayer online gaming to create self-sustaining colonies. Both games excel in teaching fundamental concepts and slowly introducing others.

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