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The 2021 census counted 308,106 usual residents in the Doncaster borough, and 7.1% of them were aged 55 to 59, against 6.7% in England. The National Railway Museum shows Sir Nigel Gresley, designer of the record-breaking locomotive Mallard, photographed at the Doncaster Works. Doncaster learners from six to sixty-seven join our teachers live on screen, either in a group of five to ten at the same level or one to one, with lessons arranged in UK hours by our team in India. The first lesson is free; after it a group place costs USD 100 a month and private teaching USD 150.

Suppose Doncaster wanted ten study hubs, placed so that the average resident lives as close as possible to one. The census divides the borough into 199 neighbourhoods, and there are about 21 million billion ways to choose ten of them. No computer can try them all. Pick ten at random and the average trip is about 2.9 kilometres. Add hubs one at a time, always taking the most helpful, and it falls to 1.822. Simulated annealing does better, 1.767, by sometimes accepting a worse arrangement on purpose so that it can escape a dead end, then cooling until it settles. Our teenagers write all three and learn to report not just the answer but how sure they can be of it.

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Facts last verified 23 September 2026. Teaching is online; no Doncaster branch is claimed.

Course picks for Doncaster

Four courses for the railway city

Follow the learner's interests. Each course starts with a free live lesson, and booking it never asks for a card.

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Ages 7 to 12

Problem Solving and Computational Thinking for Kids

Puzzles where the obvious move is not the smartest one, and learning to try, undo and try again.

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Ages 13 to 18

Problem Solving for Teens

Search, greedy methods and heuristics built from scratch, the tools behind this page's project.

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Ages 13 to 18

Competitive Programming for Teens

Hard optimisation problems for keen teenagers, where knowing when to stop searching is part of the skill.

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University and adult

Python Automation Course

Python for adults who want to automate decisions at work, from scheduling to choosing locations.

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Browse the course atlas for more than one hundred options and use the coding roadmap to check prerequisites.

The four we are known for

Python, AI, vibe coding and agentic coding

These run underneath everything above. Every one is live and online, placed by ability rather than by age, and the first class is free.

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Vibe codingAges 13 to 17

Vibe Coding for Teens

Python, web and AI projects where the learner still owns the thinking.

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Python and AICollege and adult

Python Automation Course

Automate the work you already do, then let AI carry part of it.

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AI and MLAges 14 to 18

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Train a model, read what it learned, and be able to say why it is wrong.

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Agentic codingProfessionals

Codex & Claude Code

Run AI coding agents on real work without losing control of the codebase.

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Doncaster today

A spread-out borough with an older middle

Census 2021 figures for the City of Doncaster council area, published by the Office for National Statistics and read through Nomis.

Doncaster, Census 2021
MeasureDoncasterEngland
Usual residents308,10656,490,048
Living in households303,172Not compared
Living in communal establishments4,934Not compared
Aged 20 to 2416,214 (5.3%)6.0%
Aged 55 to 5922,003 (7.1%)6.7%
Students among residents aged 5 and over52,064 (17.9%)20.4%
Usual residents per square kilometre542.4433.5

Towns and villages

At 542.4 residents per square kilometre, the borough reaches well beyond its town centre into many smaller towns and villages, which is exactly why where things go matters.

Late fifties

People aged 55 to 59 were 7.1% of residents in 2021, above England's 6.7%, while the early twenties were below the national share.

Fewer students

Of 291,164 residents aged five and over, 52,064 were at school or in full-time study, 17.9% against 20.4% for England.

Our Doncaster learners span that range. A Year 3 child in Bessacarr might be solving first puzzles in code, a Year 11 student in Armthorpe revising for GCSE Computer Science, and an adult in Conisbrough learning Python to change career, each in a small group at the same level.

Engineering for speed

Gresley, the A4s and a record from 1938

From the National Railway Museum's accounts of Mallard and its designer.

Doncaster Works

The museum shows Sir Nigel Gresley, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway, photographed at the Doncaster Works with the A4 locomotive named after him.

A shape from a wind tunnel

The museum says the A4s' streamlined shape was honed in a wind tunnel so they could cut through the air cleanly at 120 mph and above. Mallard, built in March 1938, was the 28th of 35.

3 July 1938

Mallard reached 126 mph down Stoke Bank, a steam locomotive world speed record the museum says has never been surpassed.

We have no connection with the National Railway Museum. The A4s belong on this page because they were designed by testing, measuring and improving, not by guessing. Wind tunnel shapes were tried, compared and refined until one worked. The project below does the same with an arrangement of places, trying, comparing and improving until it can do no better.

Where the neighbourhood figures come from

The Office for National Statistics publishes Census 2021 populations for lower layer super output areas, small neighbourhoods of about 1,500 people, and a population-weighted centre point for each. Doncaster has 199 of them.

Signature project

Placing ten hubs among 199 neighbourhoods

The p-median problem asks where to put a set number of facilities so that people are, on average, as close to one as possible. It is too big to solve by trying everything.

Average straight-line distance from home to the nearest of ten hubs, weighted by residents, for different search methods
MethodLowest averageHighest averageNotes
2,000 random choices2.015 km5.696 kmMedian 2.863 km
Greedy, one hub at a time1.822 kmSameAlways the same answer
Hill climbing, 10 random starts1.767 km1.820 km8 different end points
Simulated annealing, 10 runs1.767 km1.779 km40,000 steps each
Simulated annealing, too short1.781 km1.863 km2,000 steps each

1. Count the options

Choosing 10 places from 199 can be done in about 2.13 times ten to the sixteen ways. Checking a million a second, that is more than 600 years of work.

2. Climb, then get stuck

Hill climbing swaps one hub at a time whenever that helps and stops when nothing does. Ten runs ended in eight different places, because a swap that looks bad can lead to a better arrangement.

3. Accept some bad moves

Simulated annealing sometimes takes a worse swap on purpose, more often early on while it is hot, less as it cools. That lets it climb out of dead ends before settling.

Heuristics do not prove anything

The lowest average we found, 1.767 kilometres, appeared in several runs of both hill climbing and annealing, but no method here can prove it is the true optimum. What annealing did was narrow the spread: its worst run was 1.779, against 1.820 for hill climbing. Rush the cooling to 2,000 steps and the worst run slips to 1.863. An honest report gives the lowest value found, the range across runs and the settings used.

The lowest-scoring arrangement puts 67.4% of residents within two kilometres of a hub and 96.5% within five; the farthest neighbourhood is 6.47 kilometres away. More hubs help less and less: one hub gives an average of 6.417 kilometres, five give 2.973, ten 1.822 and fifteen 1.335 by the greedy method. Distances are straight lines between population-weighted centres, not journeys by road or bus.

Searching huge spaces

Five things to report with any heuristic answer

Learned on hubs for a borough, then used on delivery routes, school timetables, chip layouts, warehouse picking and the training of neural networks.

Making an optimisation result trustworthy
ReportFor the Doncaster hubsWhy it matters
What was minimisedResident-weighted straight-line distanceA different goal gives a different map
How big the search space isAbout 2.13 times ten to the sixteenExplains why no proof is possible
Range across runs1.767 to 1.779 km for annealingShows how repeatable the answer is
The settings40,000 steps, cooling from 0.5 to 0.001Lets someone else reproduce it
A simple baselineGreedy 1.822 km, random median 2.863 kmShows the effort was worth it

The first row is where real decisions go wrong. Minimising the average distance favours dense neighbourhoods; minimising the worst distance would pull hubs towards outlying villages. Neither is the right answer in general. A learner has to say which goal they chose, because the algorithm will optimise whatever it is told.

Younger learners

Placing three counters on a map so every house is near one, then trying swaps to see if it gets better.

Teenagers

Census neighbourhoods in Python, a cost function, greedy search, hill climbing and simulated annealing compared over many runs.

Adults

Optimisation at work, from rotas to routes, with the goal, settings and spread of results reported openly.

We are not connected with the Office for National Statistics, the National Railway Museum or City of Doncaster Council. The census counts and centroids are published openly; the hub arrangements, distances and comparisons are our own calculations and are not a proposal for real sites.

Learning ladder

From moving counters to simulated annealing

The age bands are a rough guide only; the free lesson finds the real starting point.

Ages 6 to 10

Try and improve

Placing counters on a map, measuring how far each house is, and swapping to make things better.

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Ages 11 to 13

Distances in code

Working out distances between points in Python and finding the nearest one for each house.

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Ages 14 to 18

Heuristic search

Greedy methods, hill climbing and simulated annealing on real census data, with runs compared and settings recorded.

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Ages 18 to 67

Optimisation at work

Scheduling, routing and location problems, and how to explain a heuristic answer to people who must act on it.

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Coding and AI

An AI can suggest locations in seconds. Why should a Doncaster teenager learn how the search works?

Because the suggestion depends on a goal and a search that the answer does not show.

Ask an assistant where to put ten hubs in Doncaster and it will offer a list. It will not say what it minimised, how it searched or whether another run would give a different list. A learner who has run annealing ten times and watched the results vary knows those questions matter, and knows how to answer them for their own work.

Training an AI model is itself a search through a vast space, and it borrows ideas from the same family: taking steps downhill, adding randomness to escape poor positions and reducing the step size over time. Understanding annealing on a map of a borough makes those ideas concrete long before anyone meets them in a neural network.

So a Doncaster teenager should still learn to program in 2026, in a borough whose railway engineers shaped a locomotive in a wind tunnel: the computer does the searching, but people still decide what counts as good. The longer argument is in why coding is worth learning in 2026.

Delivery

Bessacarr, Thorne or Mexborough, from home

Doncaster borough stretches from Askern to Tickhill and from Thorne to Mexborough. Online lessons turn every one of those places into the same distance: none.

Town and village alike

A learner in Rossington and another in Adwick can join the same class without either travelling into town.

School stages, English style

Reception, Key Stages 1 to 4, GCSE choices and A levels, named as Doncaster schools name them, with lessons taught in English.

A free lesson that counts

The first session involves genuine work and ends with a suggested level, course and weekly slot. You will not be asked for a card.

Classmates at your level

Groups of five to ten learners at one stage, from Doncaster, the rest of Britain and abroad, so there is a sensible time for every level.

Two lessons each week

A regular pair of weekly lessons, about eight a month, with holidays and exams planned with the teacher ahead of time.

Late evenings in India

A 5 pm class in Doncaster starts at 9.30 pm in India in the British summer and 10.30 pm in winter, because India keeps one time all year; our teachers work those hours for UK learners.

Around South Yorkshire

Families in Rotherham, Barnsley, Worksop or Scunthorpe join exactly the same classes, since lessons are online and groups are formed by level.

Fees

Doncaster lesson fees

The first lesson is free, then a single monthly fee.

First classUSD 0

A complete lesson at no charge, closing with a recommended level, course and weekly time.

Group tuitionUSD 100

Roughly eight live lessons a month in a group of five to ten learners at the same level.

Private tuitionUSD 150

Roughly eight live lessons a month, with the teacher working only with your learner.

Wheatley and Hatfield pay the same as any family elsewhere outside India: one fee, set in US dollars, and nothing on our site is priced in pounds. Billing starts only when the free lesson has settled a course and a lesson time; the pricing page covers pausing, missed lessons and moving between group and private teaching.

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Book a free lesson for a Doncaster learner

We choose the first task by level: a move-the-counters puzzle for a young child, a short Python program that finds the nearest point for a beginner, or census neighbourhoods and simulated annealing for a teenager ready for real data.

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FAQ

Doncaster coding class questions

The questions Doncaster families ask us most often.

How many people live in Doncaster?

The 2021 census counted 308,106 usual residents in the Doncaster borough, with 303,172 living in households and 4,934 in communal establishments such as care homes and student halls.

How does Doncaster compare with England?

Doncaster has a slightly older middle and fewer students: 7.1% of residents were aged 55 to 59 in 2021 (England 6.7%), and 17.9% of those aged five and over were students (England 20.4%). It had 542.4 residents per square kilometre (England 433.5).

What is simulated annealing?

A search method for problems with too many possible answers to check. It improves a solution step by step but sometimes accepts a worse step on purpose, less often as it cools, so it can escape arrangements that only look optimal.

What did the Doncaster project find?

Ten hubs placed by simulated annealing brought the average straight-line distance from home to about 1.767 kilometres, against 1.822 for a simple greedy method and about 2.9 for random choices.

Where does the neighbourhood data come from?

Census 2021 populations and population-weighted centre points for Doncaster's 199 lower layer super output areas, published by the Office for National Statistics.

What is Mallard?

An A4 class steam locomotive designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, which the National Railway Museum says reached 126 mph on 3 July 1938, a steam record never surpassed. We are not connected with the museum.

When do Doncaster lessons happen?

On weekday afternoons and evenings or at weekends, at a UK time set in the free lesson. India is four and a half hours ahead of Doncaster in summer and five and a half in winter.

Is there a Modern Age Coders centre in Doncaster?

No. There is no centre in Doncaster and no premises anywhere in the UK; every lesson is taught live online. Learners need a computer with sound and a reliable connection, and our phone number is Indian.

How much do Doncaster lessons cost?

The first lesson is free. After it, a group place is USD 100 a month for two live lessons a week, about eight a month, with five to ten learners, and one-to-one lessons on the same pattern are USD 150 a month. Course, format and time are agreed before any charge.

How are Doncaster groups arranged?

By level, pace and goals rather than age or postcode, with five to ten learners at one stage. If no group fits the learner's week, we offer one-to-one lessons.

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