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Learn To Code By Playing These Games

John Selawsky on February 20, 2020

Apart from an ambition to become a programmer and have an interesting well-paid job, there are plenty of reasons to learn coding even for those who...
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Artur Neumann

I'm teaching ICT once a week in a small school in Nepal. After a couple of python lessons I gave the students the homework to play codecombat.com they love me for that
Then I discovered codingame.com myself and got addicted

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Milan Dhimal

Hello !! I am also from Nepal. I really felt good hearing your experience. Codecombat is not free i guess . right?

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Artur Neumann

It's free for the first part CS1, then you have to pay

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Damian Esteban

Another good one is Code Combat - codecombat.com

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Milan Dhimal

Is it free ??

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Yehanny Olivares

Yup, it's a great game thanks for sharing, please add this game to the list is awesome!

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Chris Lozac'h • Edited

Thanks for shring this list! Re: your middle recommendation…

Oh man, I struggled so hard to get through the built-in vim tutorial before stumbling across VIM Adventures. Where the former put me to sleep, the latter was properly fun and addictive. By the time I'd finished the last level, I found myself able to navigate text more efficiently than colleagues who had been using vim as their primary editor for years.

vim-adventures.com/ is free to try, but at some point you'll be hit with a pay wall. Pay it! At $25, this thing's more engaging, more entertaining, and more effective than any other code-related class you'll come across.

(Sorry for gushing. Promise I haven't been paid for this glowing endorsement. 😬)

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Chris Lozac'h

P.S. Just finished "Chapter 4" of Flexbox Zombies at mastery.games/courses, and am now ready to gush some more!

I've read the mozilla docs for CSS flexbox more than once, and I've tried a tutorial or two. Every time, it seems like only one real lesson has stuck with me: Flexbox is annoying and convoluted and ARGH!

This course, which is free (!), well-structured, and super easy to follow, has flipped that script on its head. Now I can't wait to get through Chapter 12, at which point I suspect I'll be able to whip out display: flex; solutions with without having to look up a single piece of syntax.

If you've had as much trouble grokking flexbox as I used to, you owe it to yourself to spend 10 minutes walking through Dave Geddes' creation!

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Ami Scott (they/them)

I've used simple games like flexbox froggy with my students to help them learn early on. It's really cool to see a list of more involved games as well! Sometimes splashing some fun into your learning is exactly what you need to stay motivated.

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jeikabu

On Steam most games by Zachtronics are also good. Not so much "learn to code" as "think like a coder". M. Acton, long-time programmer at Insomniac Games, once quipped that SpaceChem was the closest thing he'd ever seen to PS3 SPU programming (sorry, no source- it was a long time ago).

P.S. they're also free for education

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Russell Cloak

Another option for programming fundamentals is TIS-100, which is on steam. It is in assembly, but it's a fun game to teach lower level programming. Find it here on steam

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WEaLagend

You provided Really a great list of best games to play for every learner learning these languages. Thanks for sharing this list. I appreciate your hard work.
WEaLagend

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Jason C. McDonald

How is CodinGame not on here? It's one of the best! codingame.com/

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Cat

Greetings,

Ty for sharing. Used codingame.com/start too and it was fun.

Thanks,
BR
Cat

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Patsy J. Moore

Nicely done and with all the right info. Google

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armaganKuyumcu

This one is also good => mastery.games/