I would probably love these games if I was retired or set for life or something like that, but right now I just feel guilty about it.

Codecademy looks cool. I've heard good things about them. Mostly I've been taking a lot of programming mooc's. I really got excited about learning programming when I took Peter Norvig's Udacity mooc. It was all in Python but very challenging for a newcomer like me. Since then I've worked most of the exercises in SICP using Racket. It's kinda died since I got back into poker though. Check out my learn programming blog http://prigoginic-leap.blogspot.com/