Once you’re ready to try some proper coding, Max recommends the best way to start learning Lua is with PICO-8. “It's basically like a fantasy console,” he explains, where the display is ...

Code Ninjas, a new coding learning center in Mount Pleasant, teaches computer coding and problem solving skills through video game development.

If you don't want to learn Java there are alternative SDKs for Android. Corona uses the Lua programming language and it is ideal for writing mobile games.

Another UK startup is using Pi electronics as the foundation for an edtech business idea, and Kickstarter to try to crowdfund their product: A learn-to-code retro games console.

Free tools like Unity, Python with Pygame, and Roblox Studio, used in classrooms everywhere, allow players to learn coding by building their own games.