A game that lets players to experience software development is an excellent method of teaching coding and programming concepts like loops and conditional statements. Games that accomplish this include Zachtronics’ Shenzhen I/O, which puts players in the shoes of disaffected engineers who work at an uninteresting chip company and have to design computer chips by hand. The circuits they’re asked to create become more complicated beginning with making lights flash in a certain pattern.
The game’s interface is similar to the one is found in browsers, and it also teaches scripting. Screeps is a different excellent example, which incorporates JavaScript code with massively multi-player online gameplay to build self-sustaining colonies. Both games are excellent at teaching basic concepts and slowly introducing new players.