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10 Coding Games To Shape Your Programming Skills
Learning through gamification is highly underrated

Are you planning to learn Java but not sure how to get started? What if we say you need to start playing coding games?
You read that right.
While gaming is traditionally associated with entertainment, recent trends have shown gamification may significantly improve the way we assimilate information. Many educational games have appeared in many fields, including programming courses.
So, let’s see how exactly gamification helps us learn better and which games may help you become a programmer!
What Is Gamification?
Literally, gamification means bringing a game element into an independent activity, such as learning, shopping, marketing, or even performing financial operations. It may be full — a game as a way to achieve a goal — or partial, when gaming elements complement another activity.
Bright examples of gamification are such well-known apps as:
- DuoLinguo, a language-learning app
- My Starbucks Rewards, a promotional product from Starbucks
- BBVA Game from the BBVA bank which is also intended to promote services