A game that lets players to play with software development is an excellent method of teaching programming concepts and coding, such as loops and conditional statements. Games that allow this include Zachtronics’ Shenzhen I/O, which puts players in the shoes of disaffected engineers working at an uninteresting chip maker and must build computer chips by hand. The circuits they have to design get more difficult, starting with making the lights blink in a specific pattern.
The game’s interface is similar to the one you will find in browsers. Additionally, it is a great way to teach scripting. Another excellent example is Screeps which is a game that combines JavaScript programming and massively multiplayer online games to build self-sustaining colonies. Both games do a wonderful job of teaching the basics as well as slowly introduce new ones.