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This is pretty much `assembly language the game`: https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine It's not a useful architecture, but it teaches the thought process really well, and you end up discovering a lot of optimization naturally. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
Other options have been given in this thread and I'd agree that for this particular situation the Tomorrow Corporation's "Human Resource Machine" is probably the best match. It's a constrained environment in a game that scales up to introduce this and more. Source: about 2 years ago
Not sure if 7 is old enough, I made this card "game" with my daughter when she was 10: https://punkx.org/4917/ which is not really a game but more like a puzzle, you have 54 small programs for a 4 bit made up computer (Richard Buckland's computer) and you have to interpret them in your head or with pen and paper. It's quite interesting to play with her when I change few instructions on a card. Other interesting... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
We have programming based games like Human Resource Machine and Hacknet. Source: about 2 years ago
The game us actually called Human Resource Machine and it is excellent. I've beaten that one and its sequel. But some people might find it difficult and I would say somebody in the lower grades definitely would. Source: over 2 years ago
That said, over the summer I taught her some of the basics of programming with a Botley toy, which is a little robot for kids to program. From there she did a bit of CodeSpark before moving onto ScratchJr which as I mentioned she is taking online classes for. I've been amazed at what she has managed to accomplish making things like a very basic Frogger game. Source: about 3 years ago
I suggest looking into simpler stuff that is also programming. You can get him into Scratch JR with some cool activities or, if you want something more "techie", I suggest something like CodeSpark. Source: almost 4 years ago
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