A game that lets players to play with software development is an excellent method to teach programming concepts and coding, such as loops and conditional statements. Games that accomplish this include Zachtronics Shenzhen I/O which puts players in the shoes of disaffected engineers working for an uninteresting chip company and must design computer chips by hand. The circuits they have to design are more complex, starting with making the lights flash in a certain pattern.

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