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The University of Groningen teaches a three-year bachelor in artificial intelligence, entirely in English, and its door is unusually wide: every vwo profile is admissible, and a pupil in Cultuur en Maatschappij needs only wiskunde A or wiskunde B. What waits inside is not wide at all. Among the first-year courses are Calculus for Artificial Intelligence, Imperative Programming, Statistics and Introduction to Logic, and the binding study advice asks for at least 45 EC in the first twelve months. A student who arrives already writing code by hand and already comfortable with the mathematics in code form has room to breathe. One who arrives with neither meets both at once, in a second language, against a deadline. This page is the preparation, for the vwo pupil who wants that degree, the student already in it, and everyone else in Groningen who wants the same skills without the lecture hall.

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In short

For learners in Groningen, Modern Age Coders runs a live online track from typed Python through the mathematics of machine learning, written as code, to trained models and AI agents, in English, in groups of five to ten or one to one, for ages six to sixty-seven. It is shaped around a concrete target: the first year of the University of Groningen's English-taught AI bachelor, which admits every vwo profile and then asks for calculus, programming, statistics and logic, with 45 EC to earn in twelve months. The same ladder serves a groep 7 child starting out and an adult retraining. The first lesson is free; after it, a group place is USD 100 a month and one-to-one tuition USD 150.

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Three courses that line up with a Groningen first year

One for a vwo pupil two or three years from the application, one for the mathematics that the first semester assumes, one for the algorithms course that follows it. Each card opens that course alone, with its syllabus and its timetable.

GRN / 01

Python for Teens

Two years from an empty file to confident Python, for a vwo 4 to 6 pupil who wants Imperative Programming to be revision rather than a shock.

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GRN / 02

Maths for Data Science

Statistics, linear algebra and the calculus behind machine learning, each idea written as code and run, so a wiskunde A pupil closes the gap before the calculus course opens it.

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Data Structures & Algorithms Course course thumbnail

GRN / 03

Data Structures and Algorithms

Lists, trees, graphs and the cost of each operation, reasoned out rather than memorised, for the student facing the first-year algorithms course or already in it.

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The target

A wide door and a steep first year

These are the University of Groningen's own published details for its bachelor in artificial intelligence, read on its programme and admission pages. Nothing here is a ranking or a judgement of the degree; it is a description of what a first-year student meets.

The degree is a BSc in Kunstmatige Intelligentie, taught in English over 36 months and 180 EC, in the Faculty of Science and Engineering and connected to the Bernoulli Institute. Its research groups are named as Cognitive Modeling, Multi-Agent Systems, Human-Centered Robotics and Machine Learning, and it offers five specialisations: computational neuroscience, hybrid intelligence, language and AI, machine learning and robotics.

Admission is generous. The university lists all four vwo profiles, Natuur en Techniek, Natuur en Gezondheid, Economie en Maatschappij and Cultuur en Maatschappij, with wiskunde A or wiskunde B named for the last. Wiskunde B is therefore not a condition of entry, and neither is informatica. A voldoende for vwo English is recommended, because every lecture is in English, and applications for September 2027 close on 1 May 2027.

Then the first year. Among its courses, at 5 EC each, the programme lists Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Calculus for Artificial Intelligence, Imperative Programming, Statistics, Introduction to Logic, Introduction to Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology, alongside a course on algorithms and data structures and one on linear algebra and multivariable calculus. The second year brings machine learning, object-oriented programming, natural language processing and ethics; the third is electives and a 15 EC bachelor project, a small piece of research carried out under one of the researchers.

Over all of it sits the binding study advice: at least 45 EC in the first twelve months, three quarters of a normal year's 60, or the student may not continue. Put the two halves together and the shape is plain. A pupil can be admitted with wiskunde A and no programming at all, and then has a year to pass calculus, programming and logic in a second language. Many do. Arriving prepared makes it a different year.

The University of Groningen AI bachelor, as published on its programme and admission pages
Item	Published detail	What it means for a pupil now
Degree and language	BSc in Kunstmatige Intelligentie, taught in English	The lectures, books and exams are in English from the first week
Length	36 months, 180 EC	Three years of 60 EC each
Admission	All four vwo profiles; Cultuur en Maatschappij with wiskunde A or wiskunde B	No profile is shut out, so preparation, not the timetable, decides readiness
Binding study advice	At least 45 EC in the first 12 months	Most of the first year has to be passed first time
First-year courses (examples)	Calculus for Artificial Intelligence, Imperative Programming, Statistics, Introduction to Logic	Maths and programming arrive together, in the first semesters
Final year	Electives, a specialisation, a minor and a 15 EC bachelor project	Research-style work under a researcher
Application deadline	1 May 2027 for September 2027	Decisions about profile and subjects are made years earlier

Sources: University of Groningen, Bachelor Artificial Intelligence (degree, length, faculty, institute, research groups, specialisations, binding study advice, careers); programme page (courses by year, minor, specialisation, bachelor project); admission page (profiles, mathematics, English, deadline). Read 11 September 2026. The pages are partly in Dutch; course names are quoted as published. We have no connection with the university.

The preparation

What a vwo pupil can have done before the first lecture

None of the first-year material is secret, and much of it can be met earlier in a gentler form. The point is not to take the degree early. It is to arrive having already done, in code, the things the degree then explains properly.

First-year topics, and the version of each a school pupil can reach first
In the first year	What can come before it	Where it sits on our ladder
Imperative Programming	Variables, loops, functions and files, typed by hand, with error messages read and fixed alone	Rung 1, from groep 7 or the brugklas
Calculus for Artificial Intelligence	Rates of change seen in code: a loop that nudges a number downhill until an error stops shrinking	Rung 3, once Python is fluent
Linear algebra	Lists of numbers as vectors, a table as a matrix, and a prediction as a sum of weighted inputs	Rungs 2 and 3
Statistics	Averages, spread and a first honest error bar, on a dataset the pupil can check	Rung 2, the data rung
Introduction to Logic	Conditions, truth tables and the difference between a rule that is necessary and one that is enough	Rung 1, inside everyday programs
Algorithms and data structures	Searching, sorting and the cost of each, counted by the program rather than assumed	Rungs 1 and 2, continued in the DSA course

The mathematics is where preparation pays most. A pupil with wiskunde A has met functions and statistics but rarely derivatives in the depth a machine learning course assumes, and a first semester that includes Calculus for Artificial Intelligence and a linear algebra course moves quickly. Writing gradient descent by hand in Python, a program that improves a guess step by step by following the slope of its error, makes the derivative something the pupil has watched work before anyone writes it as a formula.

Programming is the other half. Imperative Programming assumes nothing, which is fair, but the course runs at university pace alongside everything else. A student who has already written a few thousand lines, debugged their own mistakes and kept their work in a repository spends that course on the ideas instead of the syntax.

None of this replaces the degree, and we do not claim that our classes earn credits or exemptions there; they do not. What they change is the starting position. The binding study advice asks for 45 EC in a year, and the courses most likely to cost a first-year student those credits are the ones that combine unfamiliar mathematics with unfamiliar code.

The same preparation suits a pupil who ends up somewhere else entirely: computing science, econometrics, data science at a hogeschool, or no degree at all. Python, mathematics in code and a measured model are useful everywhere. The Groningen AI bachelor is simply the clearest published example of what a first year in this field demands.

The first-year course names come from the University of Groningen programme page cited above. The column on what can come first is our teaching plan, not the university's, and the university has not reviewed it.

The rest of Groningen

Not only for the degree: the same ladder for every age in the city

Most learners in Groningen will never apply for an AI bachelor, and the ladder does not assume they will. It starts at groep 6 and runs to retirement.

A child in groep 6 to 8 starts with Python typed by hand, small games and a first program that learns a rule from examples. A brugklas pupil keeps going at a steady pace alongside school. A teenager in havo or vwo reaches data and models, with or without informatica on the timetable; the national academy page sets out how thinly that subject is offered and what the country is building in Groningen at the same time, and we do not repeat it here.

Students at the city's university and hogeschool use the upper rungs as a second route through material their own courses move through quickly, or as the practical half that a theory-heavy module leaves out.

Adults are the other large group. A Groningen professional whose work now involves data, reports or AI tools can learn Python automation and the basics of machine learning without enrolling anywhere, one to one if their hours are irregular.

The general coding page for the city, coding classes in Groningen, covers the schools, the neighbourhoods and the city's own figures; the province page covers everywhere from Delfzijl to Westerkwartier. This page covers only the AI and Python track, and one target on it.

The five rungs

From a first typed program to a model with an honest error

The order matters more than the speed. Each rung supplies something the next one cannot do without, which is why a student who jumps straight to building chatbots often cannot explain a single result.

The five rungs, matched to where a Groningen learner usually meets them
Rung	Typically	What the learner does
1. Python by hand	Groep 7 to brugklas, or any adult beginner	Writes loops, functions and small programs from a blank file, and repairs their own errors
2. Data	Onderbouw to vwo 4	Loads a real file, cleans it, plots it, and states an average with its spread
3. Models	Vwo 4 to 6, first-year students	Writes gradient descent by hand, trains a model, reports its error and compares it with a simple guess
4. Agents	Vwo 6 and university	Builds a program that plans its own steps and calls tools, with every wrong turn logged
5. A public repository	At every stage	Publishes the code with a short account of what it does, how well, and where it fails

Why the maths sits on rung 3

Calculus and linear algebra make sense fastest when they answer a question the learner already has. After two rungs of code and data, the question is obvious: how does a program find the best line through these points? Gradient descent answers it, and the derivative arrives as the tool that makes the answer work.

The general order we teach in, subject by subject, is on the coding roadmap.

Where it meets the vwo years

The profielkeuze in the third year is the moment to try rung 1 if a pupil has not already: a term of Python shows quickly whether the Nature profiles and a technical degree appeal. By vwo 5 a pupil aiming at AI should be on rung 2 or 3, and the eindexamen year is best kept light.

For a first-year student already in Groningen, rungs 3 and 4 run alongside the degree and can be taken one to one around a changing timetable.

The catalogue

Eleven live courses for Groningen learners, placed by ability

Grouped by stage of life rather than by difficulty. Every card opens the full course with its schedule and fee, and the free first lesson decides where a learner actually starts.

Children, groep 5 to 8

Typed code early, and an honest picture of what AI is

GRN / KIDS / 01

Python and AI for Kids

Real Python for a child of nine to twelve: drawings made by code, small games, and a program that works out a pattern from examples it was shown.

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GRN / KIDS / 02

AI Literacy for Kids

How a chatbot produces its answers, why sounding sure and being right are different things, and simple checks a child can apply before trusting one.

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Teenagers, havo and vwo

From fluent Python to trained models, beside the school timetable

GRN / TEEN / 01

Python for Teens

The foundation course: two years of Python from first principles to confident, well-organised programs, and the natural start for a future AI student.

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GRN / TEEN / 02

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Statistics, classical models, neural networks, images and text, each finished with something the teenager trained and can explain to a sceptic.

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GRN / TEEN / 03

Data Science for Teens

The groundwork every model needs: reading, joining and plotting real data, and spotting the entry that would have spoiled the result.

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GRN / TEEN / 04

Coding Agents: Codex and Claude Code

Directing AI coding agents on real projects and reviewing every change they make. Students use their own accounts, within each tool's age rules.

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III

University students and adults

The mathematics, the algorithms and the systems, at an adult pace

GRN / PRO / 01

Maths for Data Science

Statistics, linear algebra and the calculus of learning, taught through code, for the student whose first-year maths is moving faster than they are.

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GRN / PRO / 02

Data Structures and Algorithms

How to choose the right structure and predict what an operation costs, the thinking that separates a program that works from one that scales.

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GRN / PRO / 03

AI and Machine Learning Masterclass

The full machine learning route for adults: supervised and unsupervised methods, deep learning, careful evaluation and putting a model into use.

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GRN / PRO / 04

Generative AI: LLMs, RAG and Agents

How large language models work, how to ground them in your own documents, and how to build agents whose mistakes are visible and contained.

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GRN / PRO / 05

Python and AI Automation

For the professional who wants the repetitive part of the job done by a script: files, reports, web data and AI tools, joined into something reliable.

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How the classes run

A Groningen evening, and a teacher in India

Groningen keeps Central European time and switches to summer time and back each year; India does not switch at all. The difference is three and a half hours in summer and four and a half in winter. Weekend and late-afternoon slots suit everyone; weekday evenings depend on the teacher, and the regular time is agreed on the free lesson rather than fixed on this page.

Late afternoon

Groningen time, after school. The usual choice for children and onderbouw pupils; evening for the teacher.

Evening

Groningen time, after dinner, arranged case by case. Suits vwo pupils and university students with a full day behind them.

Weekends

Saturday or Sunday, morning or afternoon, Groningen time. The easiest slot for working adults and busy families.

A first lesson that teaches

The learner works on a real problem while the teacher watches how they think. That settles the starting rung far better than a questionnaire.

Five to ten per group

Groups are formed by ability from learners in many countries, so a quick student in Groningen is stretched and a new one is not left behind.

One to one when it fits better

For a first-year student with a shifting timetable, an adult with a narrow goal, or anyone who wants the pace set around them.

Long enough to build something

Lessons are live, with both screens shared, so a misunderstanding is caught while it forms rather than a week later.

English throughout

The same language as the Groningen degree, the documentation and the error messages. Dutch school terms such as vwo and profielkeuze are used as they are.

Everything kept

Each lesson's work goes into the learner's own GitHub repository, so by the application or the first exam there is a record, not a loose folder.

Student work

Student work you can open today

Four projects our students built and left running online. Try them, look at how they fail, and see more on the student labs page.

AI and ML

NutriLife

An AI nutrition coach that reads what you eat and works you toward a target.

by Bhavya · Open it

AI and ML

Misti

A chatbot that answers mathematics and programming questions, built and deployed by a student.

by Harshit · Open it

AI and ML

GuardianX

An assistant that helps a young person recognise unsafe situations online.

by Vivaan · Open it

Web app

SkyCast

A weather forecasting site with live conditions for any location.

by Krish

Fees

The fees, in full

Charged monthly in US dollars, at the same two rates as everywhere outside India. There is no Groningen or Dutch surcharge, no joining fee and no annual contract. Copilot Studio courses are one to one by design and so use the one-to-one rate.

Free first class

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Group batch

USD 100

a month, billed in US dollars

A group of five to ten at one level
Taught live by the same teacher
Work reviewed every week
Certificate on completion

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One to one

USD 150

a month, billed in US dollars

One learner, one teacher
Pace and syllabus set around the goal
Required for Copilot Studio courses

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What families say

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"One of the most wonderful education centres out there. Education is not limited to school syllabus but focuses on skill development."

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"My child Dhairya is really enjoying the Modern Age Coders classes. This is his first online class and he eagerly looks forward to it. I can already see his improvement, and the teachers are very cooperative."

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Questions from Groningen

What Groningen families and students ask before starting

Does my child need wiskunde B to study AI in Groningen?

Not for admission, according to the university's admission page. It lists all four vwo profiles and names wiskunde A or wiskunde B for Cultuur en Maatschappij. The first year does include Calculus for Artificial Intelligence and a linear algebra course, so a pupil with wiskunde A benefits most from meeting that mathematics early, in code.

Is informatica required?

No. The admission page does not mention it. Many Dutch schools do not offer the subject, and the programme starts programming from the beginning with Imperative Programming. Arriving with programming already practised makes that course far easier alongside the others.

What is the binding study advice?

A rule that first-year students must earn a minimum number of credits to continue. For the Groningen AI bachelor the published minimum is 45 EC in the first twelve months, out of the 60 a normal year carries.

Do your classes give credits or exemptions at the university?

No. They are preparation and support, not part of any degree, and we have no connection with the University of Groningen. What they offer is a stronger starting position and a portfolio of work the student built.

My teenager is in vwo 4. When should they start?

Now is a good time for rung 1 if they have not written code before, and rung 2 or 3 by vwo 5. The eindexamen year should stay light, so the earlier years are where most of the preparation happens.

Is the course in English, and is that a problem?

It is in English, like the Groningen AI degree itself. For a vwo pupil that is practice for the lecture hall; the university recommends a voldoende for vwo English for exactly that reason.

Can a first-year student in Groningen join mid-year?

Yes. Students usually take the mathematics or the algorithms course one to one, fitted around their own timetable, and use the lessons to work through the ideas their degree is covering.

Is this only for future AI students?

No. The ladder starts at groep 6 and serves adults too. The Groningen AI bachelor is the clearest target for a teenager, but the same skills suit computing science, econometrics, a hogeschool course, or a job.

What does it cost?

USD 100 a month for a place in a group of five to ten learners, or USD 150 a month for one-to-one tuition, both billed in US dollars. There is no joining fee and no yearly contract, and the first lesson is free.

What happens after I fill in the form?

A teacher contacts you at a Dutch hour to arrange the free lesson. Nothing is charged and no place is reserved until after that lesson, when the family decides.

Elsewhere on this site

Other pages for Groningen and the Netherlands

This page covers one track and one target. These cover the rest.

AI and Python Academy, Netherlands

The national academy page, with the informatica figures and the AI factory being built in Groningen.

Coding classes in Groningen

The city page for general programming, with its neighbourhoods, schools and figures.

Coding classes in the province of Groningen

Every municipality in the province, from the city to the Ommelanden.

AI and machine learning in the Netherlands

Machine learning worked through on published Dutch data.

Learn to Build AI

Why we teach people to build these systems, not just to use them.

The course atlas

Every course by age and subject, each with its syllabus.

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Book a free first lesson

Leave a number and we will call at a Dutch hour. The first session is a genuine lesson with a teacher, and by its end we know which rung suits the learner. Starting at the right level matters more than anything else in this subject.

Want to read first? See the course catalogue, how we teach, and the reasoning behind this family of pages at Learn to Build AI.

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Three courses that line up with a Groningen first year

Python for Teens

Maths for Data Science

Data Structures and Algorithms

A wide door and a steep first year

What a vwo pupil can have done before the first lecture

Not only for the degree: the same ladder for every age in the city

From a first typed program to a model with an honest error

Why the maths sits on rung 3

Where it meets the vwo years

Eleven live courses for Groningen learners, placed by ability

Children, groep 5 to 8

Python and AI for Kids

AI Literacy for Kids

Teenagers, havo and vwo

Python for Teens

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Data Science for Teens

Coding Agents: Codex and Claude Code

University students and adults

Maths for Data Science

Data Structures and Algorithms

AI and Machine Learning Masterclass

Generative AI: LLMs, RAG and Agents

Python and AI Automation

A Groningen evening, and a teacher in India

A first lesson that teaches

Five to ten per group

One to one when it fits better

Long enough to build something

English throughout

Everything kept

Student work you can open today

NutriLife

Misti

GuardianX

SkyCast

The fees, in full

Rated 4.9 across 547 Google reviews

What Groningen families and students ask before starting

Does my child need wiskunde B to study AI in Groningen?

Is informatica required?

What is the binding study advice?

Do your classes give credits or exemptions at the university?

My teenager is in vwo 4. When should they start?

Is the course in English, and is that a problem?

Can a first-year student in Groningen join mid-year?

Is this only for future AI students?

What does it cost?

What happens after I fill in the form?

Other pages for Groningen and the Netherlands

AI and Python Academy, Netherlands

Coding classes in Groningen

Coding classes in the province of Groningen

AI and machine learning in the Netherlands

Learn to Build AI

The course atlas

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