Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes (opens in new tab)

He is quite active on YouTube, sharing progress and behind-the-scenes of his games.

The new Jelly Car game (Jelly Car Worlds) is a ton of fun.

As an aside, Python includes a `turtle` module that mimics the drawing experience of Logo. It's a fun way to introduce kids to some programming ideas.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html

Yeah, you must be my age. I was kinda blessed to go to a school that had a couple Apple IIes and let the kids take turns using Logo to draw shapes with the turtle, when I was 8 years old or so. I'd written some BASIC before on my mom's IBM-PC (stupid "Hello, what's your name?:" GOTO 100 kind of stuff), but Logo was a new way of thinking about the screen for me. Probably that and the early Rand/Robyn games (the Manhole, Cosmic Osmo) got me into coding. Soon after, my school bought some Mac SEs and I spent the rest of my elementary school screwing around with HyperCard after school, trying to make an RPG.

If there's one thing I'd love to suggest to parents, it's this: Give your kid an obsolete platform with nothing to do on it except make stuff and figure out how it works. It's just as entertaining, but diametrically opposite in terms of educational quality from giving them pre-made apps to play with.

(Full disclosure: My dad wouldn't even allow D&D into the house because it was someone else's game. If we wanted RPGs, we had to design our own on paper.)

Snap! https://snap.berkeley.edu/

Also, I heartily recommend the demoes that the author is giving regularly at FOSDEM. They're really fun to watch :)

This is still being taught at schools in my country even now

It's a lot like shader programming. I guess one could argue it is shader programming.

And yet you can make it as deep as you like, thanks to the presence of leaderboard. In fact, some code golfers including me quickly jumped into the wagon ;-)

he got me through twitter. the man knows his marketing.

I don't know much about shaders but this reminds me (in concept at least) of using OpenSCAD to use code to generate models for 3D printing. One cool puzzle to solve doing so is using different shapes to add or cut material from the existing model.