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What are the best coding classes in Lisburn?

The settlement NISRA calls Lisburn City had 51,447 usual residents at the 2021 census, with Metropolitan Lisburn a further 32,643, in the council area of Lisburn and Castlereagh. Lisburn Cathedral records that in April 1707 the town, church and castle were destroyed in a disastrous fire. Lisburn learners aged six to sixty-seven meet teachers based in India in live video lessons, one to one or in a class of five to ten at the same level, at times planned around the Northern Ireland school day and working hours. There is no charge for the first lesson; after it a group place is USD 100 a month and a private teacher USD 150 a month.

Lisburn Cathedral records that in April 1707 a fire destroyed the town, its church and its castle, and that the new church was begun in August 1708 and finished in 1719. If a fire flattened a town, you might expect its surviving old buildings to be rarer than elsewhere. Our Lisburn project tests that with the Historic Environment Division's record of every listed building in Northern Ireland, 15,862 entries, comparing when Lisburn's were built with the rest. The Mann-Whitney test, which compares two groups by ranking them together, finds no real difference: a Lisburn building is later than a random other one only 48.8% of the time, almost exactly a coin toss.

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

Course picks for Lisburn

Four courses for the city on the Lagan

Start from what the learner already enjoys and pick the nearest course. Every one begins with a free live lesson, with no card needed to book.

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Ages 6 to 12

Scratch Coding for Kids

Block programming for younger children, from games to a timeline that sorts old buildings into order.

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Ages 10 to 13

Python and AI for Kids

First Python with lists and sorting, enough to rank a set of dates and find the middle one.

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Ages 14 to 18

Statistics & Probability

Statistics and probability, including tests that compare two groups by rank rather than by average.

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University and adult

Data Analysis Course

Data analysis for adults who compare groups using categories and ranges rather than neat numbers.

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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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Lisburn today

A city in two census settlements

Census 2021 counts from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), which counts Lisburn City and Metropolitan Lisburn as separate settlements, alongside the district electoral areas, council area and Northern Ireland.

Lisburn in the 2021 census, usual residents (NISRA)
AreaWhat it isUsual residents
Lisburn CitySettlement51,447
Metropolitan LisburnSettlement32,643
Lisburn NorthDistrict electoral area23,449
Lisburn SouthDistrict electoral area24,321
Lisburn and CastlereaghCouncil area149,106
Northern IrelandCountry1,903,175

Young families

Children under five made up 6.5% of Lisburn City's residents in 2021, and adults aged 30 to 34 made up 7.6%, against 6.0% and 6.6% across Northern Ireland.

Two settlements

NISRA counts Lisburn City and Metropolitan Lisburn separately; we quote each exactly as published and do not add them together.

Oldest residents

People aged 90 or over were 0.7% of Lisburn City's residents, the same share as in Northern Ireland as a whole.

All figures are NISRA's own, taken table by table. Our Lisburn classes draw on the city and the places along the Lagan and the railway. A Lambeg nine-year-old coding a first game, a Year 13 student from Hilden taking CCEA A level Software Systems Development and a Derriaghy adult learning Python for a change of career could each join a class at a different level.

Fire and rebuilding

A cathedral rebuilt three times

From Lisburn Cathedral's own history page, and from the Historic Environment Division's listed buildings record.

About 1609

The cathedral records that a Welsh officer in the English army settled in Lisnagarvey, as the district was then called, and built or rebuilt a castle above the River Lagan, where Castle Gardens park is now.

1623 to 1662

A church of St Thomas was built in 1623, destroyed in 1641 and rebuilt over 23 years from 1642. In 1662, the cathedral says, Charles II established it as Christ Church Cathedral.

1707 to 1719

In April 1707 the town, church and castle were destroyed by fire. The foundation of the new church was laid on 20 August 1708, and the present building, the third on the site, was completed in 1719.

The Historic Environment Division lists the Cathedral of Christ Church at Grade A with a construction band of 1700 to 1719, matching the cathedral's own account of its rebuilding, and records a gateway in Castle Gardens from 1650 to 1699. We have no connection with Lisburn Cathedral, the Department for Communities or Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, and the dates here are theirs.

Where the listing data comes from

The Department for Communities publishes Listed Buildings Northern Ireland on OpenDataNI: 15,862 records, each with a reference, grade, address and, for most, a construction band of twenty or fifty years. The version used here is dated 10 September 2026.

Signature project

Did the fire of 1707 leave a gap?

The Mann-Whitney test lines up every building from both groups in order of construction band, ties and all, and asks whether one group tends to sit higher. It suits data like this, which comes in ordered bands rather than exact years.

Listed buildings with a construction band, by the date the band begins: Lisburn post-town addresses against the rest of Northern Ireland
Built beforeLisburn (275 dated)Rest of Northern Ireland (9,866 dated)
17009 (3.27%)188 (1.91%)
172014 (5.09%)212 (2.15%)
176022 (8.00%)387 (3.92%)
180037 (13.45%)974 (9.87%)

1. Choose the groups

Take the 389 records whose address has Lisburn as the post town, 275 of them with a construction band, and compare them with the 9,866 dated records elsewhere in Northern Ireland.

2. Rank everything

Put all 10,141 dated buildings in order by band. Many share a band, so tied buildings share the average of their ranks, and the test is corrected for the ties.

3. Compare the ranks

Add up the Lisburn ranks and compare the total with what chance would give. The result, z of minus 0.71 and a p-value of 0.48, is well within the range of ordinary chance.

No gap to find

If anything, Lisburn's list leans slightly older: 3.27% of its dated listings began before 1700, against 1.91% elsewhere, and both groups have the same middle band, 1840 to 1859. The test finds no real difference. A fire that destroyed the town in 1707 does not show up as a hole, perhaps because most listed buildings everywhere in Northern Ireland date from the 1800s, long after it. The record even includes a Castle Gardens gateway from 1650 to 1699.

This is a lesson in what a test can and cannot say. A p-value of 0.48 means the data give no sign of a difference; it does not prove the fire had no effect. The grouping by post town takes in villages and farms around the city, and a third of records nationwide have no construction band at all. A finer test would need exact addresses inside the old town, which the data do not mark. Saying all of that plainly is part of the answer.

Comparing groups

Five checks before comparing two groups of dates

Learned on Lisburn's listed buildings, then used for survey answers, grades, ratings, customer ages and any data that comes in ordered categories.

Decisions behind the Lisburn listings study
QuestionFor the listed buildingsWhat goes wrong if you skip it
What kind of data is it?Ordered bands, not exact yearsAverages taken of categories
How are ties handled?Shared average ranks, with a tie correctionA p-value that is far too small
Who is in each group?Lisburn as post town, stated plainlyA town boundary assumed that the data lack
What is missing?Undated records left out and countedGaps in the record read as gaps in history
What does no difference mean?No sign of an effect, not proof of noneAbsence of evidence read as evidence of absence

The last row matters most. Many studies that find nothing are reported as if they proved nothing happened. Here the honest summary is that the listing record, at the level of detail it offers, shows no trace of the 1707 fire, and that the question needs finer data to settle.

Younger learners

Lining up cards with dates on them, mixing two piles and seeing whether one pile ends up mostly at the start.

Teenagers

Sorting, ranks, the Mann-Whitney test and tie corrections in Python, on 15,862 real listing records.

Adults

Comparing groups measured in categories or scales, and reporting a null result honestly.

We have no connection with the Department for Communities, NISRA, Lisburn Cathedral or Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council. The listing data, census tables and cathedral history are published openly; the grouping, ranking and test on this page are our own analysis.

Learning ladder

From lining up cards to the Mann-Whitney test

Ages are only a guide; the free lesson finds where each learner should start.

Ages 6 to 10

Putting things in order

Sorting cards, dates and numbers in block code, and spotting which pile comes first.

Scratch Coding for KidsProblem Solving and Computational Thinking for Kids
Ages 11 to 13

Sorting in Python

Lists, sorting and medians in Python, with a program that ranks a set of dates.

Python and AI for KidsMaths Through Coding
Ages 14 to 18

Rank-based tests

The Mann-Whitney test, tied ranks and p-values on real Historic Environment Division records.

Statistics & ProbabilityPython for Teens
Ages 18 to 67

Categories at work

Comparing survey answers, grades and bands between groups, and reporting results that find nothing.

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Coding and AI

AI loves a confident finding. Why should a Lisburn teenager learn to report a null result?

Because a well-run test that finds nothing is still a real answer, and it is the kind of answer automated summaries tend to bury.

Ask an AI assistant whether the 1707 fire shows in Lisburn's listed buildings and it may tell a tidy story either way. The data say something more careful: no detectable difference, with clear reasons why the test might miss a real effect. A learner who has run the test knows to ask for the p-value, the groups and the missing data before accepting a story.

The project also teaches choosing the right tool. Construction bands are ordered categories with thousands of ties, and averaging them would be meaningless. Knowing which method fits which data is judgement that comes from doing, not from being told.

So a Lisburn teenager should keep learning to code in 2026, beside a cathedral finished in 1719 after a town burned: AI can produce a finding in seconds, but people still have to say honestly when there is nothing to find. The longer argument is in why coding is worth learning in 2026.

Delivery

Hilden, Lambeg or Dunmurry, and one class

Lisburn learners live along the Lagan and the railway to Belfast, and out across the council area. Online, a village is as close to the lesson as Market Square.

Along the Lagan

A learner in Derriaghy and another in Moira can share a class without either of them needing a lift.

Northern Ireland stages

We follow Northern Ireland schooling from P1 to Year 14, including the transfer test years and CCEA GCSE and A level courses, and teach in English.

A free, hands-on start

The first lesson is real coding with a teacher, and ends with a recommended level, course and regular weekly time. There is no card to hand over.

Level, not age

Five to ten learners at one stage, from Lisburn, the rest of the UK and further afield, so each level has good times.

Twice a week

Two set lessons weekly, around eight a month, with holidays and exam study planned together with the teacher.

Teachers' time

Our teachers work on Indian time, which never changes, so a 5 pm Lisburn class is at half past nine at night for them in summer and half past ten in winter.

Across the council area and beyond

Learners in Hillsborough, Dromore, Moira or south Belfast join exactly the same classes, since every lesson is online and classes are formed by level.

Fees

Lisburn lesson fees

A free first lesson, then one fee a month.

First classUSD 0

A full lesson at no cost, finishing with a suggested level, course and weekly time.

Group tuitionUSD 100

About eight live lessons a month, in a class of five to ten learners at one level.

Private tuitionUSD 150

About eight live lessons a month, with a teacher focused on your learner alone.

Families in Lambeg or Hilden pay in US dollars, as every family outside India does, and our site shows no pound prices. Charging starts only after the free lesson, once a course and weekly time are agreed with us; the pricing page covers pausing, missed lessons and moving between group and one-to-one teaching.

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The first lesson suits the learner: a date-card sorting game for a young child, a short Python program that finds the middle of a list for a beginner, or Northern Ireland's listed buildings and the Mann-Whitney test for a teenager ready for real statistics.

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FAQ

Lisburn coding class questions

What Lisburn families most often ask us.

How many people live in Lisburn?

NISRA's Census 2021 counted 51,447 usual residents in the settlement it calls Lisburn City and 32,643 in Metropolitan Lisburn. The council area of Lisburn and Castlereagh had 149,106.

How does Lisburn compare with Northern Ireland?

Lisburn City has a slightly younger profile on NISRA's figures: 6.5% of its residents were under five in 2021, against 6.0% across Northern Ireland, and 7.6% were aged 30 to 34, against 6.6%.

What is the Mann-Whitney test?

A way to compare two groups by ranking every item together and checking whether one group tends to rank higher. It works for ordered categories, such as construction bands, where averages make no sense.

Did the 1707 fire leave a gap in Lisburn's listed buildings?

Not one that the data can detect. Comparing 275 dated Lisburn listings with 9,866 elsewhere gives a p-value of 0.48, and a Lisburn building is later than a random other one only 48.8% of the time.

Where does the listing data come from?

From Listed Buildings Northern Ireland, published by the Department for Communities' Historic Environment Division on OpenDataNI. We are not connected with the Department for Communities.

When was Lisburn Cathedral built?

The cathedral records that the foundation of the present church was laid on 20 August 1708, after the fire of April 1707, and that it was completed in 1719. It is listed at Grade A.

When do Lisburn lessons take place?

Lisburn families usually choose a time after school, on a weekday evening or at the weekend, set in the free lesson. For our teachers in India that is late evening: four and a half hours ahead of Northern Ireland in summer, five and a half in winter.

Is there a centre in Lisburn?

No. We have no Lisburn centre and no premises anywhere in the UK, because every lesson is live online. Learners need a computer with sound and a reliable connection, and our phone number is Indian.

What do Lisburn lessons cost?

The first lesson is free. After that, a group place costs USD 100 a month for two live lessons a week, about eight a month, with five to ten learners, and one-to-one teaching on the same timetable costs USD 150 a month. Nothing is charged until the course, format and time are agreed.

How are learners grouped?

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

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