A game that lets players to experience the process of software development is a great way to introduce coding and programming concepts like loops and conditional statements. Games that can 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 build computer chips by hand. The circuits they’re asked to design become more difficult, starting with making the lights flash in a certain pattern.
The interface of the game is similar to the one you see in browsers, and it also teaches scripting. Screeps is a great example, which incorporates JavaScript code with massively multi-player online gaming in order to create self sustaining colonies. Both games do a fantastic job of teaching basic concepts while also slowly introducing new ones.
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- Outubro 1, 2024