Colobot - strategy game that teaches programming

Colobot (Colonize with Bots) is a game aimed at teaching programming through fun. You play the role of an astronaut traveling with robot assistants in search of a planet to colonize.
The game features real-time 3D graphics and the C++ and Java-like object-oriented language CBOT, which can be used to program the robots available in the game.

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Thonny - Python IDE for beginners

Thonny is a simple Python IDE with features useful for learning programming.

It comes with a debugger which is able to visualize all the conceptual steps taken to run a Python program (executing statements, evaluating expressions, maintaining the call stack). There is a GUI for installing 3rd party packages and special mode for learning about references.

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