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Course picks for Dublin

Four courses for a city of 1,263,219

A child in Ballymun who wants to build a game, a teenager in Rathmines starting Transition Year, a student in Clontarf who likes numbers, and an adult in Swords who works from home part of the week. Each one begins with a free lesson.

Ages 6 to 10

Scratch Coding for Kids

A bike-station game in Scratch, where a child learns that a sign saying five bikes is only true until someone takes one.

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Ages 13 to 17

Python for Teens

Python for Junior Cycle and Transition Year learners, read before it is written, with real Dublin data as the practice ground.

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Ages 14 to 18

Data Science for Teens

Loading a Dublin Bikes file, finding the repeated readings and measuring how much they change the answer.

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College and adult

Python Automation Course

Scripts that fetch, clean and check data before a report or an AI summary relies on it, for Dublin's many hybrid workers.

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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.

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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Dublin today

A city of 1,263,219, and the only Irish place where the postcode names the district

Census 2022 counted Dublin three ways: the built-up city and suburbs, which the statistics office labels as reaching into County Meath; the whole county; and the city council area alone. The three numbers answer different questions, so this page keeps them apart.

Dublin in Census 2022, Central Statistics Office
Measure	Figure	What it covers
Dublin city and suburbs	1,263,219	The built-up city, which crosses into County Meath
County Dublin	1,458,154	All four council areas, up 8 percent, or 110,795 people, on 2016
Dublin City Council area	592,713	The city council alone: 291,796 men and 300,917 women
People per square kilometre, city and suburbs	3,659	And 25 of the 32 electoral divisions above 10,000 per square kilometre are in Dublin
Average age, city and suburbs	38.2	With 17.7 percent of people aged under 15
Children aged 15 and under, county	268,943	31 percent of them in childcare, against 33 percent nationally

The postcode that remembers

Eircodes are not tied to a county or city anywhere in Ireland except Dublin, where the postal districts numbered 1 to 24, plus 6W, are kept in the routing key. So a Dublin family's postcode still says which part of the city they live in.

A city that works from home

In 2022, 284,885 people in Dublin worked from home at least one day a week, 41 percent of the workforce against 32 percent nationally. For a parent home by five, a live lesson at a fixed hour is easy to fit.

Degrees on every street

Almost 480,000 people in Dublin held a third-level qualification in 2022, more than 193,000 of them in Dublin City, and almost 16,000 held a PhD: 42 percent of all PhD holders in the country.

Computer Science in Dublin schools

Fourteen of the first forty

When Leaving Certificate Computer Science began, the Department of Education named 40 post-primary schools to start it in September 2018 and sit the first exam in 2020. Fourteen of them, by our count of the published list, were in County Dublin.

County Dublin schools in the first phase of Leaving Certificate Computer Science, January 2018 list
School	Where
Adamstown Community College	Adamstown
Coláiste Bríde	Clondalkin, Dublin 22
Colaiste Phadraig	Lucan
Coláiste Pobail Setanta	Phibblestown, Dublin 15
Dominican College Sion Hill	Blackrock
Le Chéile Secondary School	Tyrellstown, Dublin 15
Loreto College	Swords
Luttrellstown Community College	Blanchardstown, Dublin 15
Mount Temple Comprehensive	Malahide Road, Dublin 3
St Joseph's Secondary School	Rush
St. Finian's Community College	Swords
Stratford College	Rathgar, Dublin 6
Synge St CBS	Dublin 8
Terenure College	Dublin 6W

This is the list from January 2018, not a list of where the subject is taught today; we found no current official list to put beside it. It shows something useful all the same. Computer Science arrived in Dublin schools recently, in some schools and not in others, and families whose school does not offer it look elsewhere for the same ground. Our classes do not replace the subject or its exam. They give a learner the programming, data and problem-solving practice the subject assumes, at an hour that fits around the school day.

Signature project

Dublin Bikes, and the readings that repeat themselves

Dublin City Council publishes the state of every Dublin Bikes station through Smart Dublin, under a Creative Commons licence, with years of history to download. Learners use it to find out how often data is less fresh than it looks.

1. Load a quarter

The file for January to March 2019 has eleven columns, from STATION ID and TIME to AVAILABLE BIKES and LAST UPDATED. The first job is to read it without assuming what each column means.

2. Compare two clocks

TIME ticks every five minutes because that is when the file was written. LAST UPDATED is when the station last reported. Learners count how often LAST UPDATED fails to move from one row to the next.

3. Measure the difference

Drop the repeated readings and redraw the chart. The question is not whether the city had bikes, but how many points on the first chart were copies.

Our count from the published file, January to March 2019
Measure	Figure
Rows in the file	2,912,994
Stations	114
Interval of the TIME column	5 minutes
Rows repeating the previous LAST UPDATED value	1,094,127
Share of rows that are repeats	about 38 percent

Why AI does not make the problem go away

Ask an AI assistant to chart bike availability from this file and it will do it in seconds, cleanly labelled, and it will almost certainly plot every row. Nothing in the file announces that more than a third of the rows are repeats; you find out only by comparing two columns an assistant has no reason to compare. A learner who has counted the repeats knows to ask one question of any data feed: is this reading new, or a copy of the last one? That habit matters for traffic sensors, weather stations, fitness trackers and every dashboard built on them, and it is exactly the step a quick AI summary skips.

Fresh or stale

Five habits for data that is older than it looks

For city feeds, school projects, spreadsheets, sensors and anything an AI tool is asked to summarise. Taught from a bike-share file that writes a row whether or not anything happened.

Checking that a data feed is as fresh as it claims
Habit	In practice	What it avoids
Find the real clock	Look for a last-updated or reported-at field, not only the row's timestamp	Counting copies as new readings
Count the repeats	Measure how often a value and its reported time both stay the same	Charts that look calmer than the city was
Check the gaps	List the intervals where no row was written at all	Averages taken over uneven coverage
Follow the station	Check that an ID keeps the same name and place over the years	Two locations mixed under one number
Say what the chart cannot	Write down what the data does not show before sharing it	Confident conclusions from thin data

The fourth habit has a Dublin example of its own. In the published files, station 34 is called PORTOBELLO HARBOUR in 2019 and LENNOX STREET in 2026. By our reading of the coordinates the two sit about 114 metres apart, and the station grew from 30 stands to 40. A learner who averages station 34 across the years without noticing has averaged two places.

For younger learners

A Scratch game with a bike station whose sign must be updated every time a bike leaves, and a lesson in what happens when it is not.

For teenagers

Python on a real Dublin Bikes quarter: find the repeats, measure them, and write one honest sentence about what the chart can claim.

For adults

The data feeds already used at work, checked for stale readings before the next report, dashboard or AI summary is built on them.

Modern Age Coders has no connection with Dublin City Council, Smart Dublin, Transport for Ireland, Irish Rail, any employer named on this page or any school in the list above, and nothing here suggests one. Census figures are those the Central Statistics Office published for 2022. The Dublin Bikes figures are our own count from the Council's published files.

Getting around

Two Luas lines, one DART line and a class that needs neither

Dublin families plan their week around these lines. An online lesson only needs a desk.

The Luas

The Red Line runs 21 kilometres with 32 stops from Tallaght and Saggart to Connolly and The Point; the Green Line runs 22 kilometres with 35 operating stops from Brides Glen to Broombridge. Both opened in 2004, and passengers change between them at Abbey Street and Marlborough Street or O'Connell GPO.

The DART

The coastal line runs from Malahide or Howth in the north to Greystones in County Wicklow, and Irish Rail runs it every ten minutes through the day.

The docklands

Google Ireland gives its address as Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, and Airbnb Ireland as 25 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1: two ends of the docklands, on either side of the Liffey.

The largest and the youngest

Swords is the largest town in County Dublin, with 40,776 people in April 2022, and Saggart the youngest, with an average age of 30.4 among towns of at least 500 people. Both are a Luas or bus ride from the city, and neither is further from a live lesson than Dublin 2.

Learning ladder

From a sign that must change to a feed that must be checked

The free lesson sets the starting level by watching the learner at work on a real task. Age and school year are a guide, not the rule.

Ages 6 to 10

Signs that change

Children build games where a number on screen must be kept up to date, and see what happens when it is not.

Scratch Coding for Kids Coding for Kids

Ages 11 to 13

First real data

Learners read small tables in Python and ask when each value was recorded.

Python and AI for Kids Maths Through Coding

Ages 14 to 18

Feeds and repeats

Teenagers load city data, find stale readings and measure what they do to an answer.

Data Science for Teens Python for Teens

Ages 18 to 67

Checks before reports

Adults build scripts that test a data feed before a dashboard or an AI summary depends on it.

Python Automation Course Data and AI Analytics for Non-Programmers (Excel, Sheets, Power BI)

Coding and AI

An AI will chart Dublin Bikes in seconds. Why should a teenager in Dublin 15 learn to question the chart?

Because a chart is only as fresh as its readings, and nothing on the chart says how many of them are copies.

An assistant given the 2019 file will produce a tidy line of bikes available across the day. It reads the TIME column, because that is the obvious one, and treats every row as a fresh observation. The line it draws is smooth partly because more than a third of its points are the same reading written down again. The tool has not failed; it answered the question it was given. The weakness is the question, and only someone who has opened the file and compared its two clocks knows to ask a better one.

A learner who has done that once carries the habit into everything: a sensor that stops reporting but keeps being logged, a watch that repeats its last heart rate, a spreadsheet copied forward every term. Deciding which readings count, and saying plainly what a chart cannot show, stays a human job. The assistant can draw the line. Knowing whether the line is true is the programmer's part.

So the case for a Dublin child learning to code in 2026 is not the companies on the docks. It is that people who can tell a fresh reading from a stale one will be needed wherever decisions rest on data, and in a city this full of dashboards, that means everywhere. The longer argument is in why a child should still learn to code in 2026.

Delivery

From Swords to Tallaght, the same class at the same hour

County Dublin runs from Balbriggan in the north to the foot of the Dublin Mountains, and an online lesson reaches every part of it at once, with no Luas change and no parking.

At the kitchen table

A learner in Saggart and a learner in Clontarf join the same group from home, and neither crosses the city to get there.

Irish school words kept

First Year, Junior Cycle, Transition Year, Fifth and Sixth Year and the Leaving Cert keep their Irish names, while all teaching is in English.

A free first lesson

A proper lesson on a real task. The teacher then suggests a level, a course and a regular hour, and asks for no card details.

Groups across borders

Five to ten learners at one level, drawn from Dublin and other countries, so every stage has a group at a sensible hour.

Around mid-term breaks

Two lessons a week, about eight a month, at a fixed time, with pauses for school holidays and exam weeks agreed with the family.

Teaching from India

Irish time runs five and a half hours behind India time in winter and four and a half in summer, so late afternoons, evenings and weekend mornings in Dublin all work.

268,943 children and one group online

A coding group needs five learners who match on level, subject and hour. Among the 268,943 children aged 15 and under in County Dublin that sounds easy, and is surprisingly hard at seven on a Tuesday, which is why groups draw on learners aged 6 to 67 in many countries.

Fees

What classes cost in Dublin

Three prices, and nothing hidden behind them.

First classUSD 0

One lesson on a real problem, ending in a placement and a course suggestion.

Group tuitionUSD 100

A month of lessons, usually eight, with five to ten learners at the same level.

Private tuitionUSD 150

A month of lessons, usually eight, with one teacher for one learner.

Dublin families pay in US dollars at the rate used for every country outside India, with no separate euro price list and no difference between Balbriggan and Ballsbridge. Payment starts only once the free lesson has settled a course and a weekly hour. The pricing page explains pauses, format changes and missed lessons.

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Reviews

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Rated 4.9 across 547 Google reviews. These are real reviews, reproduced as written.

★★★★★

"The one step solution for my son. Modern Age Coders make learning coding so simple that kids love it. The teachers explain complex concepts clearly with practical exercises and interactive content."

Ria Mukherjee

Parent

★★★★★

"Modern Age Coders has been a game-changer for me. I struggled to grasp IT concepts and coding before joining, but their classes transformed everything. I can now confidently write complex programs with ease."

Samriddha Mondal

Student

★★★★★

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

Vansh Agarwal

Student

★★★★★

"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."

Sonam Oswal

Parent of Dhairya

★★★★★

"Modern Age Coders have wonderful teachers who teach in a clear, easy and practical way. The teacher boosts students' confidence and inspires them to learn without hesitation."

Sonu Goyal

Parent

★★★★★

"I highly recommend this computer coding class! The teachers are incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about coding."

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Parent

Free placement class

Where is the learner starting from?

The first task might be a Scratch game about a bike station, a first Python script that reads a table, or a hunt for repeated readings in a real Dublin file.

FAQ

Dublin coding class questions

The city, its figures, its schools and the lessons.

How many people live in Dublin?

Census 2022 counted 1,263,219 people in Dublin city and suburbs, 1,458,154 in County Dublin and 592,713 in the Dublin City Council area. The three figures cover different areas, which is why they differ.

Why does a Dublin Eircode start with a district number?

Because Dublin is the exception. Eircodes are not linked to a county or city anywhere else in Ireland, but in Dublin the postal districts 1 to 24 and 6W are kept in the routing key, so Dublin 15 becomes D15.

Which Dublin schools first offered Leaving Certificate Computer Science?

Fourteen of the 40 schools named in January 2018 for the first phase were in County Dublin, from Synge St CBS in Dublin 8 to St. Finian's Community College in Swords. The list shows where the subject started, not every school that offers it now.

What is the Dublin Bikes project?

Learners download a quarter of Dublin Bikes station data published by Dublin City Council, compare the TIME and LAST UPDATED columns, and find that about 38 percent of the rows for January to March 2019 repeat an earlier reading. Then they measure how much that changes a chart.

What time are lessons for Dublin learners?

The hour is fixed in the free lesson. Irish time is five and a half hours behind India time in winter and four and a half in summer, so late afternoons, evenings and weekend mornings in Dublin all suit the teachers.

Do classes fit around the Junior Cycle and the Leaving Cert?

Yes. Families agree pauses for exam weeks and school holidays, and the course is chosen around the school year, including Transition Year, when many learners want a longer project.

Is Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown covered here?

Yes, on a page of its own for the council area south of the city, from Blackrock and Dundrum to Dalkey and Shankill, linked at the end of this page.

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Dublin?

No. All teaching is live and online, and no Dublin premises or Irish office is claimed anywhere. A learner needs a laptop or desktop, working audio and a steady connection, and the phone number on this page is Indian and described as such.

What do Dublin coding classes cost?

Nothing for the first lesson. After that, a group place costs USD 100 a month for two live lessons a week, around eight in a month, in a group of five to ten, and one-to-one teaching costs USD 150 a month on the same rhythm. Course, format and weekly hour are settled before any payment.

How many learners are in a group?

Between five and ten, matched by level, pace and goal rather than by age or postcode. If no group at the right level is running at a workable hour, one-to-one lessons are the alternative.

Explore Ireland

South along the DART, and back to the national page

South of the city, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown has its own page. For AI and machine learning built from the ground up there is AI and machine learning classes in Ireland; for what best should mean in an online class, best online coding classes in Ireland; and the whole country is on the Ireland coding page.

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Four courses for a city of 1,263,219

Scratch Coding for Kids

Python for Teens

Data Science for Teens

Python Automation Course

Python, AI, vibe coding and agentic coding

Vibe Coding for Teens

Python Automation Course

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Codex & Claude Code

A city of 1,263,219, and the only Irish place where the postcode names the district

The postcode that remembers

A city that works from home

Degrees on every street

Fourteen of the first forty

Dublin Bikes, and the readings that repeat themselves

1. Load a quarter

2. Compare two clocks

3. Measure the difference

Why AI does not make the problem go away

Five habits for data that is older than it looks

For younger learners

For teenagers

For adults

Two Luas lines, one DART line and a class that needs neither

The Luas

The DART

The docklands

From a sign that must change to a feed that must be checked

Signs that change

First real data

Feeds and repeats

Checks before reports

An AI will chart Dublin Bikes in seconds. Why should a teenager in Dublin 15 learn to question the chart?

From Swords to Tallaght, the same class at the same hour

At the kitchen table

Irish school words kept

A free first lesson

Groups across borders

Around mid-term breaks

Teaching from India

What classes cost in Dublin

Six Google reviews, reproduced as written

Where is the learner starting from?

Dublin coding class questions

How many people live in Dublin?

Why does a Dublin Eircode start with a district number?

Which Dublin schools first offered Leaving Certificate Computer Science?

What is the Dublin Bikes project?

What time are lessons for Dublin learners?

Do classes fit around the Junior Cycle and the Leaving Cert?

Is Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown covered here?

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Dublin?

What do Dublin coding classes cost?

How many learners are in a group?

South along the DART, and back to the national page

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