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Dungarvan, County Waterford

Coding classes in Dungarvan

What is the best coding class in Dungarvan?

Dungarvan has 9,944 usual residents across 3,907 households, 3,112 of them with broadband, enough for a video lesson. Every lesson is taught live by a teacher, to a small group working at one level or to a single learner, typically on two set days each week, and anyone from six to sixty-seven may join. The first lesson costs nothing; afterwards a group place is USD 100 per month and one-to-one teaching USD 150 per month.

On the 2022 census form, anyone who could speak Irish was asked how often they spoke it, with five boxes to choose from, and a student could tick "daily, within the education system" as well as one of the other four. The statistics office publishes the answers as eleven separate categories, one for each combination that could be ticked. Read one of those categories on its own and it can pass for the whole answer: in Dungarvan the category "daily only outside the education system" holds 136 people, yet 182 ticked the daily-outside box. This page teaches the step that makes such tables usable, decoding a list of combinations back into one yes-or-no column per box, and then proving the decoding right with a single subtraction.

Facts last verified 19 September 2026. Teaching is online; no Dungarvan branch is claimed.

Where to start in Dungarvan

Four first courses for Dungarvan

Each age band has its own opening course, and the teacher confirms or adjusts it during the free first lesson.

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.

Signature project

Turn eleven census categories back into the five boxes people ticked

The Census 2022 small area table for Irish speakers in Dungarvan, first as published and then decoded. The middle column is the category that names one box alone; the last column counts everyone who ticked that box.

Dungarvan Irish speakers aged three and over, by box ticked
Box on the formOnly-label countDecoded total
Daily, within education1,0861,150
Daily, outside education136182
Weekly289300
Less often1,3021,308
Never948949
Not stated100100

The check that proves it

The ten published categories add up exactly to Dungarvan's 3,925 Irish speakers. The decoded box totals add up to 3,989. The difference, 64, is the number of people in the four categories that name two boxes, which is exactly what a correct decoding must produce.

What an only-label misses

Reading "daily only outside the education system" as the daily-outside figure leaves out the 46 people who also ticked the daily-within box, a quarter of the 182. Across all 867 towns combined, the same shortcut misses 12,480 of 42,402, or 29.4 percent.

A never that is not quite never

One Dungarvan resident ticked both "daily, within the education system" and "never"; across all towns combined, 1,285 people did. The category "Never speaks Irish" leaves them out and the Never box takes them in. Both readings are accurate, and they answer different questions.

Tick-all-that-apply answers are not slices of one pie

When people may tick more than one box, the boxes overlap, so their totals add up to more than the number of people and cannot be drawn as shares of a single whole. Publishers handle this by listing every combination as its own category, which keeps the categories separate and the total right, at the price of spreading each box across several labels. The statistics office says as much in its notes: the categories for daily outside, weekly, less often and never "may include people who also speak Irish within the education system". The analyst's job is to read that sentence, decode the combinations, and say plainly which of the two numbers a claim is using.

The learner's code is short. A dictionary maps each of the eleven labels to the boxes it names: "Daily within and weekly outside the education system" to boxes one and three, "Weekly only outside the education system" to box three alone, and so on. A loop then runs through all 868 rows of the town table, the 867 towns plus the row that combines them, and applies two tests to each. First, the ten categories must sum to the published total of Irish speakers. Second, the decoded box totals, minus the speakers, must equal the people in two-box categories. Every row passes both. For all towns combined the boxes add to 1,251,491 against 1,231,469 speakers, a gap of 20,022 that matches the double ticks exactly.

The press release convention

The statistics office's Waterford release for this census reports 1,196 people in the county speaking Irish daily "outside the education system only". That is the only-label reading, clearly marked. Quoting it later without the word "only" changes its meaning.

Dungarvan against other towns

Dungarvan's only-label misses 25.3 percent of its daily-outside box, below the 32.5 percent median of the 94 towns of 5,000 or more. The largest miss among them is in Clane, 32 of 60, where a small count makes the percentage jump.

Speaking it daily, outside school

Of Dungarvan's 3,925 speakers, 182 ticked the daily-outside box, 4.6 percent, the fifth highest share among the 94 towns of 5,000 or more. Of the 1,150 who speak it daily in education, 46 also speak it daily outside.

Where this turns up

Multi-select answers in forms, surveys and apps

The same structure appears whenever a question lets someone choose more than one option, and so does the same mistake.

Survey exports

Online survey tools export multi-select questions either as one column per option or as a single cell of choices joined with commas. Splitting that cell into columns is the same decoding done on this page.

Tags and categories

A post filed under three tags is counted in three tag totals, so tag counts add up to more than the number of posts. A chart that shows them as shares of a whole is wrong from the start.

Writing it up

Say whether a figure means "ticked this box" or "ticked only this box", and give the number of people as well as the number of ticks. Anyone checking the figure can then rebuild it.

What this page does not claim

The census records what people said about their own Irish, not a test of it, and how often someone speaks a language is their own estimate. Every figure here is for Dungarvan town or for all towns combined; the statistics office counts the Waterford Gaeltacht separately, and its figures are not used. Nothing on this page rates anyone's Irish.

The town in figures

Counting Dungarvan in 2022

Every figure below is a published Census 2022 small area count for the town of Dungarvan, Co Waterford, for people at their usual address.

Dungarvan census figures, 2022
FigureDungarvan
Usual residents9,944
Households3,907
Households with broadband3,112
Households with no internet418
Working residents, travel table4,072
Journeys to school, college or childcare2,334
Children under fifteen in childcare594

Getting to work

Of 4,072 working residents, 2,281 drive themselves, 647 walk, 327 work mainly at or from home, 203 travel by van, 190 as a car passenger, 152 cycle and 34 take the bus.

Getting to school

Of 2,334 journeys to school, college or childcare, 1,148 are made as a car passenger and 595 on foot. Another 175 are by bicycle, 7.5 percent against 3.7 percent across all 867 towns combined.

Long days

The census counts 390 Dungarvan residents whose journey to work, school or college takes an hour or more, and 359 who leave home before 06:30.

The home-working question drew 858 answers of yes, for at least some of the time, from Dungarvan workers, 2,815 answers of never and 399 blanks. By industry, the 4,124 in work divide most heavily into professional services at 1,006, commerce and trade at 984, and manufacturing at 708.

Two named places

Heritage Ireland dates Dungarvan Castle to about 1209, built to guard the entrance to Dungarvan Harbour, gives its eircode as X35 DV58, and calls its polygonal shell keep "a rare building type in Ireland". Waterford City and County Council lists its Civic Offices at Davitt's Quay, Dungarvan, X35 Y326, open Monday to Friday from 9:30am to 4pm. Neither has any connection with us.

Learning here

What lessons look like from Dungarvan

A week usually holds two sessions, and in each one the teacher is present and teaching the whole time.

Children

The census-night age table counts 918 Dungarvan children from six to twelve. They start with block code and on-off switches, building games that respond to more than one button at once.

Teenagers

Its 762 residents aged thirteen to eighteen can take on Python, websites, AI projects and data work such as decoding this census table.

Adults

Adults are welcome from a standing start, and lesson one decides which course fits.

The Central Statistics Office published every census count used here; the decoding into boxes is our own arithmetic, done on 19 September 2026. Heritage Ireland and the council are quoted from their own pages.

Learning ladder

From two switches to a decoded survey

Each age range is approximate, and the teacher settles the real starting rung in the first lesson.

Ages 6 to 10

On and off

Block code where sprites react to switches, including two pressed together.

Coding for KidsScratch Coding for Kids
Ages 11 to 13

True or false

Python booleans and counting, turning yes-or-no answers into totals.

Python and AI for KidsMaths Through Coding
Ages 14 to 18

Survey data

Splitting labels, one column per option, and tests that prove a table was decoded correctly.

Data Science for TeensPython for Teens
Ages 18 to 67

Forms at work

Multi-select questions in real survey exports, reported with the right denominators.

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

Ask an assistant how many speak Irish daily outside school

It will usually find the row whose label matches and stop there.

Given the Dungarvan table, an AI assistant asked how many residents speak Irish daily outside the education system will often quote the row whose wording matches the question, 136, and move on. The row is real, and the answer is still short by 46, because the people who also ticked the daily-within box sit in a different row.

After writing the decoder, the learner asks the assistant three things: whether the question allowed more than one answer, which rows name the box being counted, and whether the box totals add up to more than the number of people. An assistant that cannot answer those has not really read the table.

Finding a matching row is easy for any tool. Knowing that the row is only part of the answer is the skill. The longer argument is in why learning to code still rewards the effort.

Delivery

How lessons run for Dungarvan

The arrangements.

Teacher present throughout

The teacher stays on the call for the whole lesson, looking at each learner's screen and code as they work.

One level per group

Five to ten learners who are at the same point, whether they join from Dungarvan, another Irish town or abroad.

Two fixed days

Roughly eight lessons a month on two days agreed at enrolment, weekdays or weekends.

Built around the school year

Term breaks, holidays and exam periods are part of the plan rather than interruptions to it.

Kit needed

A computer with a keyboard, sound in and out, and an internet connection strong enough for video.

One-to-one option

Learners who are far ahead, want more time on each step, or need an hour no group has, can be taught alone.

No classroom

Lessons reach Dungarvan over video only. We have no office or classroom in the town, the county or the country, and a lesson runs the same way from any home with a connection.

Fees

The cost of lessons in Dungarvan

Everything, in three lines.

First classUSD 0

An opening lesson with a level check, free.

Group tuitionUSD 100

A month in a group of five to ten at the same stage: about eight live lessons.

Private tuitionUSD 150

A month of one-to-one teaching on the same schedule.

Any family living outside India pays one flat fee in US dollars. The opening lesson commits nobody to anything, payment starts only when the course does, and the pricing page explains what happens over holidays, after a missed lesson, or on a move from group to private lessons.

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FAQ

Questions from Dungarvan families

The ones that come up most.

What is the population of Dungarvan?

The Census 2022 small area tables count 9,944 usual residents in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, in 3,907 households, and 3,112 of those households have broadband.

What is the data project on this page?

Decoding a tick-all-that-apply census question. The table of how often people speak Irish lists eleven combinations; learners turn them back into five boxes, check the result with one subtraction, and show that a label ending in "only" misses everyone who ticked two boxes.

How many people in Dungarvan speak Irish?

In the census, 3,925 of the town's 9,739 residents aged three and over said they could speak Irish, 5,274 said they could not and 540 did not answer. Of the speakers, 1,150 ticked the box for speaking it daily within the education system and 182 the box for daily outside it.

How do people in Dungarvan get to work?

Of 4,072 working residents, 2,281 drive, 647 walk, 327 work mainly at or from home, 203 go by van, 190 as a car passenger and 152 by bicycle.

When are lessons?

Late afternoons and evenings on weekdays, and daytime at weekends. Every time is agreed in Irish time. Our teachers are in India, which runs four and a half hours ahead of Ireland in summer and five and a half in winter, and only hours that suit both sides are offered.

Is it too late to start as an adult?

No. Learners up to sixty-seven join, complete beginners included, and each adult decides after the first lesson whether a same-level group or one-to-one teaching suits them.

Are the groups made up of Dungarvan learners?

Rarely all of them. Groups are built on level alone, so a Dungarvan learner may share lessons with people from other counties or other countries.

Does Modern Age Coders have a classroom in Dungarvan?

No. Lessons are live on video and we have no premises anywhere in Ireland. A computer, working sound and a reliable connection are all that is needed, and the phone number on this page is an Indian one.

How much do coding classes in Dungarvan cost?

Nothing for the first lesson. After that, USD 100 a month for a group place, which means around eight live lessons, two each week, alongside four to nine other learners; or USD 150 a month for one-to-one lessons on the same timetable. The terms are agreed before anything is paid.

How many learners share a lesson?

From five to ten, sorted by level, pace and goals rather than by age or where they live. When no suitable group meets at a time that works, lessons are one to one.

Explore Ireland

Around Dungarvan and west Waterford

The Waterford page covers the city and county, Tramore is along the coast to the east, and Clonmel lies to the north, all within Munster. Learners who enjoyed the decoding project may like the data science course page, and the Ireland hub is where every other page begins.

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