What is the best coding class in Kildare town?
Kildare town has 10,234 usual residents in 3,463 households, and 2,897 of those households have broadband, the connection our lessons run on. Lessons are led live on video by a teacher, for a small same-level group or a single learner, generally on two days a week, and are open to anyone between six and sixty-seven. The first lesson is free. From then on, group places cost USD 100 a month and private teaching USD 150 a month.
Machine learning includes methods that find groups nobody has labelled, and the most widely taught is k-means. Give it the travel-to-work pattern of the 94 towns of 5,000 or more, ask for four groups, and it returns four tidy clusters, one of them containing Kildare. Run it again from a different random start and the groups change. Run it 200 times and it produces 68 different groupings. Ask for eight groups and every one of the 200 runs disagrees with every other. The method is working as designed; what it shows is that a single set of clusters is one answer among many. This page runs the experiment and shows how to report clusters so that the instability is visible rather than hidden.
Facts last verified 19 September 2026. Teaching is online; no Kildare branch is claimed.
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Block coding with sorting games that group things by what they have in common.
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Python and a first look at AI: letting a program find groups in a small set of data.
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Machine learning including k-means clustering, random starts and checking results for stability.
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For adults who segment customers, products or cases and need to know how firm the segments are.
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The four we are known for
These run underneath everything above. Every one is live and online, placed by ability rather than by age, and the first class is free.

Python, web and AI projects where the learner still owns the thinking.
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Automate the work you already do, then let AI carry part of it.
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Train a model, read what it learned, and be able to say why it is wrong.
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Run AI coding agents on real work without losing control of the codebase.
See the syllabusEach of the 94 towns is described by eight travel-to-work shares, scaled to a common footing. k-means is run 200 times for each number of groups, every run from a different random start.
| Groups (k) | Different groupings | Towns always with Kildare | Kildare's group size |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 11 | 43 | 59 to 73 |
| 3 | 29 | 1 | 34 to 55 |
| 4 | 68 | 0 | 23 to 54 |
| 5 | 157 | 0 | 10 to 51 |
| 6 | 194 | 0 | 4 to 40 |
| 8 | 200 | 0 | 3 to 38 |
Of Kildare's working residents who stated a way of travelling, 58.3 percent drive, 8.9 percent walk, 7.7 percent work mainly at home, 6.6 percent ride as a car passenger, 6.1 percent use a van, 5.8 percent take the train, 4.6 percent the bus and 1.4 percent cycle.
No town sits with Kildare in every run once k reaches four, but some come close: Loughrea and Portlaoise in 198 of 200 runs, Mallow in 197, Enniscorthy in 196. That kind of count is a finding; a single run's group is not.
The spread inside the groups always falls as k rises: 503.8 at two groups, 401.6 at three, 317.0 at four, 275.1 at five. More groups always fit better, so the number of groups is a decision the analyst makes and has to justify.
k-means starts from random guesses and settles into the nearest good answer, which is not always the same answer. The usual advice is to run it many times and keep the tightest result, and that helps, but it does not remove the two choices underneath: how many groups, and which features. Honest reporting names k and the features, says how many restarts were used, and gives stability counts such as how often two towns land together. A cluster that appears in 198 of 200 runs is worth talking about. One that appears once is noise with a label.
The learner writes k-means in about thirty lines: pick k random towns as starting centres, assign every town to its nearest centre, move each centre to the average of its towns, and repeat until nothing changes. A wrapper runs it 200 times with a fixed random seed per k, records every grouping, and counts two things: how many different groupings appeared, and how often each town landed in the same group as Kildare. Those two counts, not the colours of one chart, are the output worth keeping.
The same method, and the same instability, sits behind many tools that sort things into groups.
Businesses group customers by what they buy or how they behave. A segment that changes each time the method is rerun is not a segment to build a campaign on.
Clustering is used to group documents, images or sensor readings when nobody has labelled them. The groups it finds depend on the features it was given.
State the features, their scaling, the number of groups and restarts, and how stable the groups were. Without those, a clustering cannot be checked or repeated.
What this page does not claim
The groups are not official categories and say nothing about what the towns are like to live in. They describe only how residents travel to work, as recorded by the census, and a different set of features would group the towns differently again.
Counts for the town of Kildare, Co Kildare, taken from the Census 2022 small area tables for the people who usually live there.
| Item | Kildare town |
|---|---|
| Usual residents | 10,234 |
| Households | 3,463 |
| Households with broadband | 2,897 |
| Working residents in the travel table | 4,629 |
| Journeys to school, college or childcare | 2,897 |
| Children under fifteen in childcare | 653 |
| Working residents who take the train | 251 |
Of 4,629 working residents, 2,507 drive, 382 walk, 332 work mainly at or from home, 285 travel as a car passenger, 264 by van, 251 by train, 196 by bus and 62 by bicycle.
Of 2,897 journeys to school, college or childcare, 1,480 are made as a car passenger and 593 on foot, with 310 by bus, 111 by train and 71 learners driving.
Of Kildare's working residents, 1,147 work from home for at least part of the week, 2,944 never do and 538 left the question blank.
Two named places
Irish Rail gives the station address as Iarnród Éireann, Station Road, Kildare, Co. Kildare, Eircode R51 AW63, with sheltered bike parking. The Irish National Stud gives its address as Brallistown Little, Tully, Co. Kildare, R51 AP20. Neither has any connection with us.
Expect two live lessons in an ordinary week, each led by a teacher from start to end.
The census-night age table counts 1,243 children aged six to twelve in Kildare town. They start with blocks and sorting games, grouping things by what they share.
Kildare town has 1,035 residents aged thirteen to eighteen, old enough for Python, websites, AI projects and machine-learning work like the clustering here.
Adults begin wherever they are, beginners included, and the first lesson fixes the course.
Census counts are quoted from the Central Statistics Office without alteration; the clustering runs are ours, done on 19 September 2026. The station and the stud are quoted from their own websites.
Age bands are a guide only; where each learner starts is decided in lesson one.
Block-coded games that sort shapes and sprites into groups by a shared feature.
Coding for KidsScratch Coding for KidsPython that assigns points to the closest centre and moves the centres, one step at a time.
Python and AI for KidsMaths Through Codingk-means with restarts, choosing k, and measuring how stable the groups are.
AI and Machine Learning for TeensData Science for TeensCustomer and case segmentation, and reporting it so others can check and repeat it.
Python Automation CourseData Analysis CourseIt will return neat clusters. Ask it to run the method again.
An AI assistant asked to cluster towns will usually run the method once, name the groups and describe them persuasively. On this data the same method, run from another random start, would very often give a different answer, and a description written for one run can sound just as convincing for the next.
Having run k-means two hundred times, a learner asks the assistant for the number of restarts, how many different groupings appeared, and which pairs of towns stayed together in most runs. Those questions separate a stable pattern from a lucky draw.
Finding groups is a few lines of code. Showing whether they are real takes a person who checks. The longer argument is in why learning to code is a good bet.
In outline.
Every lesson is taught live by a teacher who works from the learner's code.
Each group has between five and ten learners at the same stage, from Kildare, elsewhere in Ireland and overseas.
Around eight lessons a month, usually two a week, at hours agreed at the outset.
The course plan builds in school holidays, mid-terms and exam weeks.
A laptop or desktop, headphones or speakers with a microphone, and a connection that keeps video running smoothly.
A private teacher takes over for learners who are far ahead, need more time, or can only attend at an hour no group uses.
Taught on video
Kildare town learners join every lesson by video. We have no premises in Kildare or anywhere in Ireland, and a lesson is the same from any connected home.
All of the charges.
A full first lesson with the level assessed, free.
A month in a group of five to ten at one stage, about eight live lessons.
A month of one-to-one lessons on the same weekly pattern.
Every family outside India pays the same US dollar fee each month. The first lesson is free, billing starts once the course does, and the pricing page lists what happens with holidays, missed lessons and a change between group and private lessons.
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Tell us the learner's age and interests and we will design the first hour. It could close with a game, a first program, or a set of clusters and an honest note on how stable they are.
What Kildare town families usually ask.
The Census 2022 small area tables count 10,234 usual residents in the town of Kildare, in 3,463 households, 2,897 of which have broadband.
Clustering the 94 towns of 5,000 or more by how their residents travel to work, using k-means, and running it 200 times for each number of groups. With four groups it produced 68 different groupings; with five, 157. The project teaches how to report clusters with their stability.
On travel to work, with four groups, Loughrea and Portlaoise landed in Kildare's group in 198 of 200 runs, Mallow in 197 and Enniscorthy in 196. Those counts are the reliable part; any single run's grouping is less so.
Of 4,629 working residents in the travel table, 2,507 drive, 382 walk, 332 work mainly at or from home, 285 go as a car passenger, 264 by van and 251 by train.
Weekday evenings, late afternoons after school, and weekends. Kildare lessons are set on Irish time; our teachers, in India, are four and a half hours ahead during Irish summer time and five and a half in winter, and we offer only the slots that suit both.
Yes, up to sixty-seven and from any starting point. Adults settle in the first lesson whether to learn in a same-level group or with a private teacher.
Only if they happen to share a level. Classmates are matched by stage, and may live in Kildare, anywhere else in Ireland or abroad.
No, and we never imply one. Teaching is live over video only, with no premises in Ireland. A learner needs a laptop or desktop, working sound and a steady connection, and the number shown here belongs to India.
The first lesson is free. After that a shared place costs USD 100 a month and brings two live lessons a week, about eight monthly, with five to ten learners; one to one on the same schedule is USD 150 a month. Everything is agreed before payment.
Five to ten, grouped by ability, pace and goal rather than age or address. Where nothing suitable meets at a workable hour, we teach one to one instead.
The County Kildare page covers the county, and the neighbouring town pages include Newbridge, Athy and Portlaoise, one of Kildare's steadiest cluster companions, all in Leinster. A comparison of online coding schools sits on its own page, and the Ireland hub is the index to every county and town.