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A game that lets players to experience the process of software development is a great way to introduce coding and programming concepts like loops and conditional statements. Zachtronics Shenzhen I/O is a game that does this. It puts players in the shoes of unhappy engineers working for a non-existent company and must build computer chips manually. The circuits they’re required to design get more difficult, starting with making the lights blink in a specific pattern.
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