Experience the Software Development World With a Game
A game that lets players to experience software development is an excellent way to teach coding and programming concepts like loops and conditional statements. Games that do this include Zachtronics’ Shenzhen I/O, which puts players in the shoes of dissatisfied engineers who work for an uninteresting chip company and have to design computer chips by hand. The circuits they are asked to design are more complex beginning with making the lights flash in a certain pattern.
The interface of the game looks very similar to the tools used by developers in browsers and also teaches scripting. Another excellent example is Screeps, which combines JavaScript coding with massively multiplayer online gaming to create self-sustaining colonies. Both games are excellent at teaching basic concepts and slowly introducing other players.
