Experience the Software Development World With a Game

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A game that lets players to experience software development is a great way to introduce programming concepts and coding, such as loops and conditional statements. Zachtronics Shenzhen I/O is one game that accomplishes this. It puts players in the shoes of angry engineers who work for a dull company and are required to design computer chips manually. They are presented with increasingly difficult circuits to design, beginning with making lights blink in a certain pattern.

The game’s interface appears very similar to developer tools found in browsers and teaches scripting. Screeps is another great example, which blends JavaScript code with massively multi-player online gaming to build self-sustaining colonies. Both games do a wonderful job of teaching basic concepts while also slowly introducing new ones.