README.md

I'm developing https://chessnawk.vercel.app/ to teach CS to my middle school students.

I digest a lot of CS-related games and steal best practices while tuning the learning experience.

• Another list that's bigger

Tile languages

• LightBot (especially the Android version)
• https://i4ds.github.io/CargoBot/

Games involving coding (but not teaching it)

• BitBurner (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812820/Bitburner/) - a clicker with automatisation via JS scripts. players report no built-in learning and no skill gain
• https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
• Programming bots to fight: Corewars, Screeps, Battlesnake

Puzzles mildly resembling coding

• https://www.zachtronics.com/ - most games have something related to coding
• Baba is You
  • Else Heart.Break()
• Factorio, Shapez and alike

Logic gates

• https://plays.org/circuitgates/
• https://kpolyakov.spb.ru/prog/logic.htm

Nand2Tetris

All these games are almost identical in content. They follow the https://www.nand2tetris.org/ course.

• https://nandgame.com/
• https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/
• https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/
• https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/

Front-end

• https://codepip.com/: Flexbox Froggy etc.
  • deep coverage of APIs with details useless to students, shallow exercises. no algorithmic thinking, just showcasing of API

Coding

• The Farmer was Replaced - a very boring and slow clicker

Assembly

• Human Resource Machine
• 7 billion humans - goes beyond assembly

SQL

https://mystery.knightlab.com/

Alternative models of computation

• A=B - Markov algorithms. What can you achieve with a set of string replacements
• Lists and Lists on Lisp
• https://store.steampowered.com/app/933970/Brainfuck/

Not really computer games, but other CS classroom activities

• https://classic.csunplugged.org/books/
• Bebras

Weird but maybe related

• Octopticom

TODO: sort

Deadlock empire

Untrusted - пишешь на JS решение для "робота в лабиринте"

Recursed, Patrick's Parabox — учат думать про рекурсию, корутины, identity/equality и mutable state

Manufactoria and Silicon Zeroes

Move Code Lines — очевидно

https://github.com/readyready15728/awesome-programming-games?tab=readme-ov-file

Searches

• https://chatgpt.com/share/68e651ab-980c-8005-b547-172de22e7fd7
• https://chatgpt.com/share/68e651bc-a8e8-8005-a144-c21e78b116e7
• https://thinkygames.com/games/?query=programming#game-search
• https://chatgpt.com/share/68f0bd19-f684-8005-925c-6947a1ebe4fa

Watch out for Ada Lovelace Day sale on Steam (annual)