Programming and Educational Games for Kids

Question

Over the next few days I&rsquo;ll be visiting family, there will be a bunch of kids (16 and under).I&rsquo;d love to entertain them with some cool new game, but most importantly I&rsquo;d love to show them their tablet/computer can do a lot more than play TikTok videos!What are some educational games (possibly involving simple programming, or logic) that you recommend?Yesterday we played with https://sketch.metademolab.com/ (shared and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29635422) and it was a roaring success!(I have found some recommendations from previous threads but nothing recent: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=educational+games+kids)

kognate · Accepted Answer

I highly recommend Codea's CargoBot (assuming they are on an iPad). https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cargo-bot/id519690804It's a fun game that uses a simple stack-based programing language to play. It doesn't teach programming per-se but the Codea app itself is a programing environment for games that has a lot of examples and a very good editor.

schwartzworld · Answer

GCompris for the younger ones.I also have some simple html/js games I made for my daughter. https://letter-press.netlify.app They aren't much, but I like showing her how I can change variable values to tweak the gameplay. She loves choosing her own emoji to play tic tac toe with.

muzani · Answer

A game about machine learning: https://store.steampowered.com/app/619150/while_True_learn/

yz1ruhzh · Answer

For young kids Ubisoft free game "Rabbids Coding" is fun, they learn about loops, conditions while having fun watching Rabbids doing silly actions. Not many levels but just enough to learn the basics.