Experience the Software Development World With a Game

A game that allows players to experience software development can be a great way to teach programming concepts and concepts in coding, such as loops and conditional statement. Zachtronics Shenzhen I/O is a game that does this. It puts players in the shoes of unhappy engineers working for a drab company and are required to design computer chips manually. They are given increasingly complex circuits to design, starting with making lights blink in a specific pattern.

The game’s interface is very similar to tools used by developers in browsers and teaches scripting. Screeps is another great example, which blends JavaScript code with massively multiplayer online games to build self-sustaining colonies. Both games do a fantastic job of teaching https://mrworkspace.nl/2012/09/22/finding-the-best-news-from-software-development-world/ the basics while also slowly introduce new ones.