Sure, so the one magic bullet we have as a field is that we can pretty much woah them with the possibilities of learning this stuff. So you play Fortnite or sit on Reddit all day? This is how you build that.
A good simple game engine would do wonders for programming education.
Take something like React, not exactly a learners platform either.
We never really build apis like that anymore (or ever have it seems), where we literally ask ‘could a kid do this?’.
Issue with games is that it is much less fun to make them. It also have strong artistic component that discourages non artistic kids. It is often tedious to test.
Just because someone likes programming does not imply he will enjoy actual making game.
It is good to attract kids to at first, but not so great after.
Also, just because someone enjoys playing games does not imply he has any motivation to quite code for game. People mostly fall love with visuals or story or online competition. Which leads to drawing, modeling and writing or level design more.
A good simple game engine would do wonders for programming education.
Take something like React, not exactly a learners platform either.
We never really build apis like that anymore (or ever have it seems), where we literally ask ‘could a kid do this?’.