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by latency-guy 1479 days ago
If you're willing to be charitible of where exactly programming comes in while playing a game - I would say creating cheats or bots for video games.

These days, you will most likely have your account restricted and banned from an entire ecosystem of games if you try this, but back in the days where flash was dominant you could do lots of fun things with little risk. Many fun times in Runescape making dollars off my bots that ran air runecrafting bots, or Fist of Guthix bots in F2P and selling the GP I got for the rewards. Does not need to be very complicated either IMO.

For a direct answer, I think Minecraft has a lot of options for learning programming without really learning programming. I have never played it but I have seen what others have done in what I believe is creative/builder mode.

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Back in college our CS group had an ongoing competition, getting high scores in facebook's chat minigames. Skullduggery was highly encouraged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnJyc3oFsSM