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8 Most Popular Gaming Platforms For Programmers

Rakesh Potnuru on August 22, 2022

Gamers have the mindset that they want to gamify everything. Why not gamify learning to code if you are a gamer and programmer 👀? There are numerou...
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Yusuf Malikul Mulki

Thanks for the list.
I play Battlesnake and trying to find similar games.

FYI TwilioQuest is no longer available.

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KhaledBasiony

Nice list!

Might wanna also check Bitburner
It's and idler JavaScript based game (beginner friendly), really challenging and addictive once you get used to it 😄

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Rakesh Potnuru

Wow! Nice game to get started with programming 💯.

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Paul Knulst

This is a cool list. I never heard of codingame and battlesnake.

But, imho, you forget the best website: checkio.org

I have written an article especially about learning to code by Gamification with JavaScript (TypeScript) that you maybe want to check out. I have some duplicates but also some editions to your awesome list!

You can find it:

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Rakesh Potnuru

Thanks for sharing!

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Michael Santiago

Thank you for sharing. Never knew about this and look forward to giving them a shot.

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Štěpán Žák

Nice article! My favorite programming game is yare.io, but I didn't play any of games here and i will surely give them a try.

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S0bacc

I don’t really understand why anyone else should create and develop something, if now there are already a huge number of platforms, online casinos and other sites that provide great conditions and look cool in terms of design.

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Aaduserr

Well, this is an opportunity to make money. Moreover, developers earn quite a lot, so why not? During the pandemic, there was a special boom in the gambling industry, I even read about creating sites with betting in garage, as programmers literally created the best betting or gambling platforms without leaving their homes, which helped them solve financial problems due to job loss.