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This is very similar to Upper Story's first product [Turing Tumble](https://upperstory.com/turingtumble/). As one who does lower level computing, I still thoroughly enjoyed Turing Tumble as it was just a different way of exercising the same knowledge base. I think it is also kind of similar to the Zachtronics line of video games like [TIS 100](https://zachtronics.com/tis-100/) or... Source: over 1 year ago
If you are open to learning very basic assembly programming, or have some interest in programming give TIS-100 a look, great simple manual to print out (only ~15 pages). Its cheap at $7 and will remind you of your former Tandy. Source: almost 2 years ago
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 / 10 months 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: 12 months 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 1 year ago
We have programming based games like Human Resource Machine and Hacknet. Source: about 1 year 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: about 1 year ago
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