Time has passed, but we are still looking at statistics on STEM training as 2.4 million STEM jobs will remain vacant for 2018. Others, like 71% of all new STEM jobs, are in IT, but only 8% of those STEM graduates are in IT. People always wonder if coding is challenging to learn.
Officially we didn’t just say “coding is great, so do it,” ending the story. Instead, we now say, “Coding is cool, so do it, but you should do it too because you’ll be rewarded for it.” In other words, there are jobs, many of them, and jobs that pay very well.
What makes it even better is that it’s not just the work or the cool (it would be a much shorter blog post). But creativity, problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and other skills can be enhanced as a by-product of children learning to code.
So children should learn to program because:
- Programmers are in high demand and will be in the future.
- Coding knowledge enables students to understand the world better
- Coding is fun and satisfying.
- Coding enhances creativity
- Coding improves problem-solving.
- Coding improves persistence.
These web games offer you a fun and engaging introduction to the world of programming.
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5 Best Games To Learn Programming
CodeCombat
CodeCombat is an HTML5 RPG that teaches you basic programming concepts.
In CodeCombat, you play as a hero who ventures through the levels of the game. The first level as Kithard Dungeon, which covers basic programming concepts. A player faces coding challenges during your journey in this game. If you pass them, you will unlock the next level and accumulate experience points (XP) with which you can improve your hero.
CodeCombat attracts young people and aspiring programmers. According to an in-game survey, 62% of CodeCombat users are under the age of 18.
It supports top-five programming languages:
- JavaScript
- CoffeeScript
- Lua
- Python
This game covers a wide range of programming topics: strings, variables, method calls, vector drawing, and more.
Read – 5 Interactive Websites to Start Learn Coding Right Now
Code Hunt
Code Hunt is a science fiction HTML5 game which is a product of Microsoft Research.
In this game, your role is to play as a code hunter who is responsible for repairing the code so that it returns the expected result. Fourteen levels are called sectors in the Code Hunt nomenclature.
Code Hunt supports Java or C#. The programming concepts you will learn include arithmetic, loops, and conditional expressions.
If Teachers want to add any additional areas to the game can do this by first reading the code search designer’s manual.
CodinGame
CodinGame is a great set of challenging games for programmers. If one wants to improve his/her coding skills, playing CodinGame is a fun way.
CodinGame is supporting more than 20 programming languages, including PHP, C, and JavaScript. The user interface is feature-rich and can be customized. For example, One can choose the style of your code editor: “Emacs,” “Vim,” or “Classic” (the default theme).
You can play this game in a single-player or multiplayer mode. Multiplayer mode allows you to solve in-game challenges with other users in the game.
Read – 15 Useful Android Apps for Developers/Coders
Screeps
Screeps is a great, massively multiplayer online game (MMO) for JavaScript developers.
The game is an open world strategy game in which you control units, the so-called creeps, with which you can extract resources, define your territory, etc. As an online multiplayer game, your goosebumps are next to other players’ goosebumps.
FightCode
In FightCode, the goal is simple: create a robot that defeats other players’ robots.
How do you create a robot?
When writing JavaScript. For example, you can use the .rotate Cannon () method to rotate your robot’s barrel a certain number of degrees when a certain event occurs.
Before building your world-dominating indestructible robot, you must first read the documentation to learn how to code a robot.
