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Would this game be a good way to get a 10 year old into programming?

• solardev 2y ago
  You can try? Worth the risk for $7, with a 2-hour playtime refund period through Steam. There are also a bunch of other similar games on this list: https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games?tab=readme-ov-file#awesome-engineering-games https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games?tab... (disclaimer: I maintain it, but it's a community effort) I think 7 Billion Humans might be easier to get into, since it's a drag and drop visual code builder GUI: https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/ It's similar to Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/ https://scratch.mit.edu/ And of course there's Roblox: https://create.roblox.com/ https://create.roblox.com/ And Fortnite: https://www.fortnite.com/create?lang=en-us https://www.fortnite.com/create?lang=en-us ----- There's also a whole sub-genre of similar factory production games (like Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program and so many others in that list). But this game is pretty unique in that it lets you write actual code instead of putting together graphical "logic block" elements (splitters, conveyers, etc.) The graphical games are useful for teaching logic and thinking in terms of functions (inputs and outputs). But to learn real programming, it's nice to be able to see the actual keywords. 7 Billion Humans and Scratch at least have that.