Experience the Software Development World With a Game
A game that lets players to experience software development is an excellent method to teach programming and coding concepts such as loops and conditional statements. Games that allow this include Zachtronics Shenzhen I/O which puts players in the shoes of disaffected engineers who work at an uninteresting chip maker and must build computer chips by hand. The circuits they have to create become more complicated beginning with making lights flash in a certain pattern.
The interface in the game looks very similar to the tools used https://mrworkspace.nl/2014/02/16/mrworkspace-is-moved/ by developers in browsers and also teaches scripting. Screeps is another excellent example that combines JavaScript code with massively multiplayer online games in order to create self sustaining colonies. Both games excel at teaching basic concepts and slowly introducing other players.