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>Core War is a 1984 programming game created by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney in which two or more battle programs (called "warriors") compete for control of a virtual computer. These battle programs are written in an abstract assembly language called Redcode.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341450/Yolo_Space_Hacker...
I like it because now I have something gameified to recommend to people who want to break into computer security. It was REALLY easy for me as someone who's been mired in that world for a long time, though I'm probably going to buy the other missions to see if they pose more of a challenge.
Make sure to download the performance DLC. It runs in a VM but it's better off with virtualbox in my experience than the other options. Opt for compiled tools rather than old perl and python scripts if you want missions to go faster.
Maybe not an exact answer to the question being asked, but when flexbox was first introduced a few years back, I remember being quite overwhelmed by it, but the game that helped me "grok" it was Flexbox Froggy: https://flexboxfroggy.com/ Even now, when I am working with frontend designs, I sometimes am mentally picturing my elements as frogs that need to be placed in the right place :D
https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer/bot-programming/line-r...
If you prefer floating point math over integers, their pod racing game is awesome: at one point my algorithm was fourth in the world at it.
https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer/bot-programming/mad-po...
As a bonus, you can use just about any language you want: I know they have at least python, C, c++, rust, Go, Java, javascript, bash...
It was my first introduction to: physics, accounting and finance, data visualizations, and more.
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 holds up remarkably well today, either natively or via OpenRCT2. Highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.
If you're willing to be charitible of where exactly programming comes in while playing a game - I would say creating cheats or bots for video games. These days, you will most likely have your account restricted and banned from an entire ecosystem of games if you try this, but back in the days where flash was dominant you could do lots of fun things with little risk. Many fun times in Runescape making dollars off my b…