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Course picks for Ripon

Four courses for the city where the rivers meet

Go for the course nearest to what the learner already likes doing. Every course here begins with a free live lesson, and no card is needed to book it.

Ages 6 to 12

Scratch Coding for Kids

Block programming for younger children, from simple games to a rain gauge chart that grows a bar each day.

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Ages 13 to 18

Python for Teens

Python from first lines to full projects, enough to download 67 years of daily river flow and fit trend lines to it.

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Ages 14 to 18

Statistics & Probability

Statistics and probability, including percentiles, logarithms and how to put an honest range around an estimate.

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University and adult

Data Science Course

Data science for adults who need to know whether the extremes in their data are changing, not just the average.

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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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Ripon today

A small city in a wide district

Results of the 2021 census from the Office for National Statistics, downloaded from Nomis, for the two middle-layer areas the House of Commons Library calls Ripon North and West and Ripon South and East, beside the Harrogate census district and England.

Ripon in the 2021 census
Area	Usual residents	Students among those aged 5 and over	Residents per square kilometre
Ripon North and West	6,254	18.5%	1,145.5
Ripon South and East	10,336	16.1%	2,307.9
Harrogate census district	162,666	17.7%	124.4
England	56,490,048	20.4%	433.5

North and west

Ripon North and West had 526 residents in communal establishments, and 1,112 of the 6,008 aged five and over were in full-time education.

South and east

In Ripon South and East, 424 residents were aged 85 or over, 4.1% of the area's age table, against 2.4% across England, and 685 were aged 70 to 74.

The district

The Harrogate census district, which included Ripon in 2021, averaged 124.4 residents per square kilometre, with 158,140 people living in households.

Ordnance Survey's Open Names now places Ripon in North Yorkshire. Each percentage above uses its own table's total, since census tables are adjusted separately for privacy. Our Ripon learners come from the city and the villages around it. A Clotherholme nine-year-old coding a first quiz, a Bishopton student in Year 13 finishing an A level project and a Sharow adult learning Python to track a small farm's records could each be placed in a different class by level.

Wilfrid's city

A crypt from the 7th century

From Ripon Cathedral's own website, and from Historic England's National Heritage List.

St Wilfrid

The cathedral gives Wilfrid's dates as about 634 to 710 and records that its choir traces back to him, since he first brought singers from Canterbury to Ripon.

672

The cathedral says its crypt is still intact from Wilfrid's original church of 672, and describes it as the oldest built fabric of any English cathedral.

1986

Studley Royal Park including the ruins of Fountains Abbey, a few kilometres from the city, is a World Heritage Site; the National Heritage List gives 1986 as its inscription year.

The National Heritage List records Ripon Minster, the Cathedral Church of St Peter and Wilfrid, at Grade I, listed on 27 May 1949, together with an obelisk, also listed at Grade I, and Ripon Town Hall at Grade II*. For the World Heritage Site it gives a core area of about 311 hectares. We have no connection with Ripon Cathedral or Historic England, and the descriptions quoted here are theirs.

Where the river data comes from

The Environment Agency publishes daily mean flow for the River Ure at Westwick and the River Laver at Ripon Laver Weir, with a quality flag on every day: Good, Estimated, Unchecked, Suspect or Missing. The flags matter for this project, because they change over the decades.

Signature project

Are the floods rising faster than the ordinary flows?

An ordinary trend line follows the average. Quantile regression fits a line through a chosen percentile instead, so one line can follow the low flows, another the middle, another the top 1% of days. If the lines slope differently, the shape of the river's year is changing, not just its level.

Change per decade in daily mean flow at four percentiles, with 95% ranges from 300 resamples of whole water years (October to September). Environment Agency data.
River and record	10th percentile	Median	90th percentile	99th percentile
Ure at Westwick, 1960 to 2025, every day	+1.2% (-1.3 to +4.4)	+1.3% (-1.9 to +4.5)	+4.1% (+0.5 to +7.3)	+4.2% (+1.1 to +6.8)
Ure at Westwick, 1982 to 2025, estimated and suspect days left out	+4.8% (-1.1 to +11.5)	+0.1% (-6.0 to +6.6)	+3.3% (-1.8 to +8.5)	+5.9% (+0.5 to +10.9)
Laver at Ripon, 1979 to 2025, every day	+2.6% (-6.3 to +15.6)	-2.2% (-8.1 to +7.8)	+4.9% (-3.5 to +14.5)	+8.7% (-0.5 to +15.0)

1. Work in logarithms

Flows range from a trickle to a flood, so take the logarithm of each day's flow. A slope then reads as a percentage change per decade, the same for small and large flows.

2. Fit each percentile

For the 99th percentile, find the line with 1% of days above it and 99% below, weighting misses so that the line settles exactly there. Repeat for the 10th, 50th and 90th.

3. Resample whole years

Wet and dry days come in runs, so resample entire water years, 300 times, and refit. The middle 95% of the refitted slopes gives the range in brackets.

Why the second row matters most

The Ure's full record looks convincing: both high percentiles rise with ranges clear of zero. But every day in the 1960s is flagged Estimated and most of the 1970s Unchecked, so the early years could be steering the answer. Starting in 1982 and leaving out estimated and suspect days, the 99th percentile still rises by 5.9% a decade, with a range from +0.5% to +10.9%, while the median sits at +0.1%. The 90th percentile's range now crosses zero. So the firmest statement is about the very top 1% of days, and it survives the check.

The Laver, inside the city, tells the same kind of story without the certainty: its top 1% of days rises by 8.7% a decade in the central estimate and its median falls slightly, but every range includes zero. A smaller river with 47 years of data simply cannot pin a trend down as tightly as the Ure. The honest conclusion is that on the Ure the largest flows have risen since 1982 while typical flows have not, and the Laver is consistent with that but cannot confirm it on its own.

Trends in the extremes

Five checks before saying the extremes are changing

Learned on Ripon's rivers, then used for delivery delays, hospital waiting times, website load times, exam marks and any measure where the worst cases matter more than the average.

Decisions behind the Ripon river study
Question	For the Ure and the Laver	What goes wrong if you skip it
Which part of the spread matters?	Four percentiles fitted separately	An unchanged average hiding rising extremes
Is the scale sensible?	Logarithms, so slopes are percentages	Floods swamping every other day in the fit
Are the days independent?	Whole water years resampled	Ranges far too narrow for runs of wet weather
What do the quality flags say?	Rerun from 1982 without estimated days	Early estimates steering a long-term trend
Does a second river agree?	The Laver fitted the same way	One gauge treated as the whole story

The fourth row changed the conclusion. Leaving out the 1960s and 1970s did not remove the rise at the very top, but it did remove the certainty at the 90th percentile. Dropping every unchecked day as well would throw away 2012 to 2024, the most recent years, so that version is only a check: its 99th percentile estimate is still +6.1% a decade, with a much wider range. Quality flags are information to weigh, not a filter to apply without thinking.

Younger learners

Lining up a class's heights, finding the middle and the tallest few, and noticing that the two can change in different ways.

Teenagers

Percentiles, logarithms, quantile regression and a block bootstrap in Python on Environment Agency river data.

Adults

Checking whether the worst cases in a service or process are changing, with data quality weighed rather than ignored.

We have no connection with the Environment Agency, Ordnance Survey, Ripon Cathedral, Historic England or North Yorkshire Council. The flow records and census tables are published openly; the quantile regressions and resampling on this page are our own analysis.

Learning ladder

From the tallest in the class to quantile regression

The ages are approximate; the free lesson settles where a learner starts.

Ages 6 to 10

Middles and extremes

Sorting numbers, finding the middle and the biggest, and drawing them as bars in block code.

Scratch Coding for Kids Problem Solving and Computational Thinking for Kids

Ages 11 to 13

Percentiles in Python

Lists, sorting and percentiles in Python, with charts that show how the top and middle of a set differ.

Python and AI for Kids Maths Through Coding

Ages 14 to 18

Trends in every part

Logarithms, quantile regression and resampling on real Environment Agency records.

Python for Teens Statistics & Probability

Ages 18 to 67

Extremes at work

Measuring whether the slowest, largest or worst cases are changing, with honest ranges and quality checks.

Data Science Course Data Analysis Course

Coding and AI

AI summarises data with averages. Why should a Ripon teenager look past them?

Because the average of the Ure has barely moved while its biggest days have risen, and an average-only summary would miss that entirely.

Ask an AI assistant whether the Ure is changing and it may well report a steady average and move on. The flood days that matter to people along a river sit in the top percentiles, and they need their own line. A learner who has fitted those lines knows to ask what is happening at the edges, not only in the middle.

The quality flags teach the other habit. An automated analysis would happily use every day, estimated or not. A person who has seen how much the 1960s and 1970s could sway the answer learns to ask how each number was produced before trusting a trend built on it.

So a Ripon teenager should keep learning to code in 2026, beside a cathedral whose crypt dates from 672: AI can draw the average in an instant, but people still have to look at the extremes. The longer argument is in why coding is worth learning in 2026.

Delivery

Bondgate, Littlethorpe or Studley Roger, all in the same class

Ripon is compact, and many of its learners live in the villages along the rivers around it. Online, a village a few miles out is as close to the lesson as the city centre.

City and river villages

A learner in Ure Bank and another in Copt Hewick can take the same class without anyone travelling.

In step with school

Learners are placed by English school year, and our stages carry the familiar GCSE and A level names; all lessons are taught in English.

The free lesson

The learner builds something real in the first session, and the teacher then recommends a level, a course and a weekly time. We never take card details.

Classes by stage

Between five and ten learners at a single level, from Ripon, the rest of the UK and further away, so every stage has good times on offer.

A regular week

Two fixed lessons a week, about eight a month, with holidays and exam periods agreed with the teacher in good time.

Indian evenings

Because India stays on one time all year, a 5 pm Ripon lesson is at half past nine in the evening for our teachers in summer and half past ten in winter.

Around North Yorkshire

Learners in Harrogate, Thirsk, Knaresborough or Boroughbridge join the very same classes, as every lesson is online and classes are set by level.

Fees

Ripon lesson fees

A free first lesson, followed by one fee a month.

First classUSD 0

One full lesson without charge, ending with a suggested level, course and weekly slot.

Group tuitionUSD 100

Around eight live lessons a month in a class of five to ten learners at the same stage.

Private tuitionUSD 150

Around eight live lessons a month, with the teacher's attention on your learner alone.

Families in North Stainley or Bishop Monkton pay in US dollars, like all families outside India, and our site never lists pound prices. We send no bill before the free lesson is over and a course and weekly slot have been agreed; the pricing page explains how breaks, missed lessons and a switch between class and private teaching are handled.

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Each first lesson is shaped around the learner: a tallest-and-middle sorting game for a young child, a short Python program that finds percentiles in a list for a beginner, or 67 years of Ure flow data and quantile regression for a teenager ready for real statistics.

FAQ

Ripon coding class questions

Questions we hear most from Ripon families.

How many people live in Ripon?

Census 2021 counted 6,254 usual residents in Ripon North and West and 10,336 in Ripon South and East, the two middle-layer areas the House of Commons Library names after the city. The Harrogate census district, which included Ripon, had 162,666.

How does the area compare with England?

The Harrogate census district is thinly settled, at 124.4 residents per square kilometre against 433.5 for England. In Ripon South and East, 4.1% of residents were aged 85 or over in 2021, against 2.4% nationally.

What is quantile regression?

A way to fit a trend line through a chosen percentile of the data rather than through the average. Fitting several lines, for low, middle and high values, shows whether different parts of a distribution are changing in different ways.

Are floods on the River Ure getting bigger?

At Westwick, from 1982 to 2025 and leaving out estimated and suspect days, the top 1% of daily flows rose by about 5.9% a decade, with a range from 0.5% to 10.9%, while the median barely changed. The Laver in Ripon points the same way but its range includes zero.

Where does the river data come from?

From the Environment Agency's hydrology data service, which publishes daily mean flow for the Ure at Westwick and the Laver at Ripon Laver Weir, with a quality flag on every day. We are not connected with the Environment Agency.

How old is Ripon Cathedral?

The cathedral says its crypt is still intact from St Wilfrid's original church of 672, and describes it as the oldest built fabric of any English cathedral. Historic England lists the building at Grade I.

When do Ripon lessons take place?

Ripon families mostly choose a time straight after school, a weekday evening or a weekend morning, and we fix it at the free lesson. With our teachers in India, a North Yorkshire evening is late for them: four and a half hours later on the clock in British Summer Time, five and a half in winter.

Do you have a Ripon centre?

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

What do Ripon lessons cost?

The first lesson is free. After that, 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 teaching on the same schedule is USD 150 a month. Nothing is charged until the course, format and time are agreed.

How are Ripon learners grouped?

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

Explore England and the UK

Yorkshire and beyond

Down the road, the York page compresses street names with Huffman coding, and Wakefield adds up a river's flow with the trapezium rule. Leeds has its own page too. Our England guide sets out how our levels match English schooling, and the UK coding page links every other city.

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Four courses for the city where the rivers meet

Scratch Coding for Kids

Python for Teens

Statistics & Probability

Data Science 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 small city in a wide district

North and west

South and east

The district

A crypt from the 7th century

St Wilfrid

672

1986

Are the floods rising faster than the ordinary flows?

1. Work in logarithms

2. Fit each percentile

3. Resample whole years

Why the second row matters most

Five checks before saying the extremes are changing

Younger learners

Teenagers

Adults

From the tallest in the class to quantile regression

Middles and extremes

Percentiles in Python

Trends in every part

Extremes at work

AI summarises data with averages. Why should a Ripon teenager look past them?

Bondgate, Littlethorpe or Studley Roger, all in the same class

City and river villages

In step with school

The free lesson

Classes by stage

A regular week

Indian evenings

Ripon lesson fees

Six family reviews from Google, word for word

Book a free lesson for a Ripon learner

Ripon coding class questions

How many people live in Ripon?

How does the area compare with England?

What is quantile regression?

Are floods on the River Ure getting bigger?

Where does the river data come from?

How old is Ripon Cathedral?

When do Ripon lessons take place?

Do you have a Ripon centre?

What do Ripon lessons cost?

How are Ripon learners grouped?

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