Best programming based games [closed]

Answer 1

Another good one is CEEBot. It teaches C / Java style programming in a fun, robot-programming kind of game. It is aimed at 10-15 year olds, but it is a good one.

Answer 2

I used to have a lot of fun coding my own robot with Robocode in college.

It is Java based, the API is detailled and it's pretty easy to get a challenging robot up and running.

Here is an example :

 public class MyFirstRobot extends Robot {
     public void run() {
         while (true) {
             ahead(100);
             turnGunRight(360);
             back(100);
             turnGunRight(360);
         }
     }

     public void onScannedRobot(ScannedRobotEvent e) {
         fire(1);
     }
 }

Answer 3

You must be thinking of RoboWar. Oh how lovely it is.

Still exists, though the community is slowly dying.

http://robowar.sourceforge.net/RoboWar5/index.html http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/robowar/

Answer 4

While it was more logic than programming per se, one I really enjoyed back in elementary school was Rocky's Boots. It had sensors, AND gates, OR gates, NOT gates, wires, timers, and all sorts of other stuff. Fantastic program for teaching a kid logic.

Go to the link and you can still play it!

Answer 5

If you are willing to look at single player games like Light Bot and Manufactoria then I highly recommend RoboZZle. It has conditional commands which include function calls. This allows for complex stack manipulation. There are thousands of user created puzzles from pathetically obvious to mind blowing enigmas. They have recently added support for smartphones.

I also think The Codex of Alchemical Engineering is worth a look.

Answer 6

Kara is about programming a bug(!) coming up in various versions, e.g. Finite State Machine, Java, Turing Machine, Multithreading

Kara http://www.swisseduc.ch/compscience/karatojava/kara/icons/kara-worldeditor.gif