Coding classes in Peru, judged on what you can see
Every provider says its coding classes are the right ones. A family in Lima, Piura or Cusco cannot test that claim by reading websites, but it can test it by watching one class closely. This guide sets out what to look for, what Peru already gives learners for free, and how we measure up on each point, so you can decide with evidence rather than adverts.
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The short answer
There is no single best coding class in Peru; there is the class that fits one learner, and you can check fit in a single free lesson. Watch how long the learner types, whether the mentor asks them to explain, and what is left on screen at the end. Modern Age Coders teaches coding live online in English to children from 6, teenagers and adults in Peru, with a mentor based in India, in a group of fifteen to twenty or one to one, at hours you choose.
Where most learners start
Three coding courses for three ages
Age and goal decide the first course. Each of these assumes no earlier code.
What does "best" mean when choosing coding classes?
It cannot mean a ranking, because nobody measures every provider in Peru the same way, and any league table you find was written by someone selling a place in it. It can mean the class that does the most for one particular learner, and that is something you can observe.
We use six tests. Each is something a parent, a teenager or an adult learner can check in a free class or in the first month, without technical knowledge. After each one we say what we do, and the evidence you can look for, because a claim without evidence is just another advert.
The learner types more than they watch. In a sixty-minute class, count the minutes your child or you spend with hands on the keyboard. Our evidence: in every class the learner writes and runs their own code, and the mentor watches their screen, not the other way round.
The mentor knows who is struggling. In a group, the mentor should call learners by name and check their screens. Our groups hold fifteen to twenty learners of similar age, or the class is one to one, and a group keeps its mentor from the first week to the last.
There is a project at the end, not only exercises. Ask what the learner will have built after three months. Ours finish small games, tools or apps they designed themselves and can explain.
The class makes the learner think before the computer does. Ask the mentor how they handle AI chatbots. Ours ask learners to predict what a program will do before running it, and to explain every line they hand in.
The certificate is described honestly. A good provider tells you exactly who issues it. Ours is a Modern Age Coders certificate of completion, after a final exam; it is not a Peruvian qualification, and no ministry or university issues or endorses it.
You can try before paying. Our first class is free and needs no card. If a provider will not let you watch a real lesson, that tells you something.
Families who prefer to read this in Spanish can see our Spanish guide, mejores clases de programación para niños, which weighs eight criteria for primary-age children in a different way. The lessons described on both pages are the same: live, online and in English.
One free class
What should I watch for in a free trial coding class?
A trial lesson is the only honest sample a provider can give you. Sit nearby for the first one, notebook in hand, and write down what actually happens rather than how it feels.
Signs the class is working
The learner is typing within the first ten minutes. For a six-year-old that may mean dragging blocks; for a teenager it means real Python.
The mentor asks "what do you think will happen?" before pressing run, and waits for an answer.
When the learner makes a mistake, the mentor asks them to find it instead of fixing it for them.
At the end there is something on the learner's own screen that was not there at the start, and they can tell you what it does.
Signs to be wary of
Most of the hour is a slideshow or a video while the learner listens.
The mentor never looks at the learner's screen, or the group is so large that names are not used.
Code is pasted in from somewhere and run without anyone reading it.
The first conversation is about a long contract or a discount that ends today, before you have seen any teaching.
For children under ten, add one more test: did they want to show you what they made? Pride in a small finished thing is the strongest predictor we know of a child who keeps going. For adults, the equivalent is simpler: did you leave the class understanding one idea you did not understand before?
Families in the capital asking about English-medium schooling may find our page on English-medium coding classes in Lima useful, since it covers learners from bilingual, Cambridge and IB schools in more detail.
Already in Peru
Is coding taught in Peruvian schools, and what is free?
Not as a school subject. The national curriculum has no computing or programming area, but there are free public routes, mostly for secundaria pupils, and a family should know them before paying anyone.
Public and free routes into coding for learners in Peru, from each organiser's own pages
Route
Who runs it
Who it reaches
What it involves
CNEB competency 28 (digital skills)
MINEDU
Every pupil, in every subject
Working in virtual environments; transversal, not a subject of its own, and no programming language named
Fábrica de Programadores (pilot, July 2025)
MINEDU
1,000 public-school pupils, 4th and 5th year of secundaria, Lima Norte
Python training, with the option of the PCEP exam at the end
Peruvian Informatics Olympiad, OPI
UTEC
Any secundaria pupil in Peru, free
Algorithm problems; the 2025 rules allowed C++ or Python online in round one and only C++ at the final
Peruvian AI Olympiad, OPEIA
UTEC
Any secundaria pupil in Peru, free
A single competition day, held on 19 March 2026
MINEDU Hackathon (4th edition, 2025)
MINEDU
Teams of pupils, teachers and specialists
Projects in AI and robotics, with prizes
Sources: MINEDU, Currículo Nacional de la Educación Básica (competency 28 and the plans of study); MINEDU press notes on Fábrica de Programadores (24 July 2025) and the Hackathon 2025; UTEC, Olimpiadas Peruanas de Computación home page and Reglamento OPI 2025. All read on 8 and 9 November 2026. We have no connection with MINEDU, UTEC or any of these programmes.
What this means for most families
If your child is in 4th or 5th of secundaria in a public school in Lima Norte, the Fábrica pilot may already be open to them, and it is worth asking the school. MINEDU calls it a pilot it hopes to repeat nationally, so most pupils in Peru are not yet in it.
The olympiads are free and open to every secundaria pupil, but they test problem solving under time pressure; they do not teach programming from zero. Peru first sent a team to the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2022, and by November 2026 its contestants had won one bronze medal there.
Where paid classes fit
Primary-age children, adults and most teenagers have no free structured route at all. That is the gap private classes fill.
A good paid class should prepare a teenager for the free routes rather than compete with them: our older learners often enter the OPI after a year of Python, and we are glad when they do. Under the olympiad's own rules a contestant may not solve problems with generative AI, which is the standard we teach to anyway.
A real lesson
How can I compare several coding classes without a ranking?
Cross off any offer that another beats on every measure you care about, and keep the rest. What survives is a shortlist, and the final choice between those is yours. Economists call this Pareto dominance; here it is in Python, as we teach it to teenagers and adults.
The idea
Imagine you have written down three numbers for each of five offers after their trial classes: minutes your child typed, learners per mentor, and projects promised in the first three months. The offers and numbers below are invented for the lesson; none describes a real provider.
Offer B is worse than Offer A on all three measures, so nobody who cares about those three things should choose B. That is all "beaten" means.
Why it matters
Notice what the program does not do: it never adds the numbers together or picks one winner. A weighted score would force you to decide how many minutes of typing are worth one project, and families honestly disagree about that.
The program only removes offers that no reasonable family would pick. Offers A, C and E survive for different reasons: A has the most balanced numbers, C is one to one, and E promises the most projects but has learners watching most of the time.
shortlist.py: cross off offers that are beaten on every measurePython
# Five invented class offers, measured the way a family can check in a trial class.
# typing: minutes the learner types code in a 60-minute class (higher is better)
# group: learners per mentor (lower is better)
# projects: finished projects in the first three months (higher is better)
offers = {
"Offer A": {"typing": 35, "group": 18, "projects": 3},
"Offer B": {"typing": 10, "group": 30, "projects": 1},
"Offer C": {"typing": 40, "group": 1, "projects": 2},
"Offer D": {"typing": 30, "group": 20, "projects": 2},
"Offer E": {"typing": 5, "group": 6, "projects": 4},
}
HIGHER = {"typing": True, "group": False, "projects": True}
def at_least_as_good(x, y, key):
return x[key] >= y[key] if HIGHER[key] else x[key] <= y[key]
def beats(x, y):
"""x beats y if it is no worse on every measure and better on at least one."""
no_worse = all(at_least_as_good(x, y, k) for k in HIGHER)
better = any(x[k] != y[k] and at_least_as_good(x, y, k) for k in HIGHER)
return no_worse and better
for name, o in offers.items():
beaten_by = [other for other, p in offers.items() if other != name and beats(p, o)]
print(name, "beaten by", beaten_by if beaten_by else "nobody")
shortlist = [n for n, o in offers.items()
if not any(beats(p, o) for m, p in offers.items() if m != n)]
print("Shortlist:", shortlist)
It prints Offer A beaten by nobody, Offer B beaten by ['Offer A', 'Offer C', 'Offer D'], Offer C beaten by nobody, Offer D beaten by ['Offer A', 'Offer C'], Offer E beaten by nobody, and finally Shortlist: ['Offer A', 'Offer C', 'Offer E'].
Two Python ideas carry the whole program. all() asks whether something is true for every measure, and any() asks whether it is true for at least one. "No worse on every measure, better on at least one" is exactly all followed by any, and learners who see that sentence become code tend to remember both functions for good.
Predict first. Before running it, decide which offers you think survive. Most people expect only one.
Add a measure. Put a fourth number, such as "the same mentor every week" as 1 or 0, into every offer and update HIGHER. Does the shortlist grow or shrink? Explain why adding measures can only keep more offers alive.
Find the tie. Give Offer D exactly the same numbers as Offer A. Does either beat the other? Read the better line again to see why not.
Say it in English. Write two sentences for a parent explaining why Offer E survives even though its typing time is the lowest.
At home
Does my child need a computer for online coding classes in Peru?
For anything beyond the first weeks of block coding, yes. Video works on a phone; writing and running real programs on a small touch screen is slow and discouraging, and it hides the keyboard skills the learner needs.
This is a real constraint in Peru. INEI's household survey for the second quarter of 2026 found that 36.4% of homes in the country had at least one computer: 53.3% in Metropolitan Lima, 41.3% in other urban areas and 8.9% in rural areas. The same survey found that internet use was lowest among children aged 6 to 11, at 68.2%. A family weighing classes should count the device as part of the decision, not an afterthought.
A shared computer
Common and workable. Mention it when you book, and we can suggest class hours that do not clash with a sibling's homework or a parent's work.
A tablet
Fine for Scratch-style blocks with young children. From Python onwards a keyboard matters; a cheap external one helps a lot.
A phone only
Enough for the free first class, so you can judge the teaching. Not enough for a full course, and we will say so honestly.
The teaching language
Is it a disadvantage that the coding classes are in English?
For some learners at first, and we would rather say so. For most it turns into an advantage within weeks, because programming is already written in English words, and every manual, error message and forum the learner will use later is in English too.
What the numbers say
EF's English Proficiency Index 2025 gives Peru 519 points, in its moderate band, and Lima 555, the only Peruvian city in the high band. Speaking is Peru's weakest skill at 480, behind reading at 540.
That pattern matches what we see: learners from Peru often read code instructions comfortably long before they feel confident speaking. Our classes lean on the screen for exactly that reason.
What our mentors do
They speak slowly and plainly, type key words into the chat, and repeat instructions with the code visible. A learner can answer by pointing at a line or typing a short reply.
Nobody is marked down for their English. The aim is the code; the English improves along the way. Children at bilingual schools usually notice no difficulty at all.
Should coding classes let learners use ChatGPT or other AI?
Not as a way to skip the thinking, and never in breach of a tool's own age rules. A class that lets a child paste chatbot answers will produce finished-looking projects and a learner who cannot write a loop alone.
Age rules first
Under Claude's terms a user must be 18 or older; ChatGPT's terms say a minor needs a parent's or legal guardian's permission. Our classes for under-18s never ask a learner to open an adult AI account.
Predict, then run
Every learner says what a program will do before it runs. When the guess is wrong, that moment is the lesson, and no chatbot can have it for them.
Adults use AI as a critic
Learners of 18 and over may ask an AI tool to question their code or explain an error, then must explain the fix in their own words.
This is the promise we make in every country we teach in: the same quality of teaching in Arequipa as in Lima or anywhere else, and learners who can solve problems without help when it counts. Families in the south will find more on coding classes in Arequipa.
Progress you can check
How do I know the coding classes are working after three months?
These milestones are ours. They are what we expect most regular learners to reach, and what a family can ask to see.
What a learner should be able to show, by month (our milestones)
After
A child of 6 to 12
A teenager or adult
Month 1
A short animation or game they built, explained aloud
Small programs with decisions and loops, typed alone
Month 3
A game with a score, lives or levels
A tool with functions and a list, tested on their own data
Month 6
A project chosen and planned by the child
A project split into parts, with errors handled
Month 12
A move from blocks to typed code
A finished project explained in English to the mentor
For parents
Ask your child to show you, not tell you. A two-minute demonstration at the dinner table is worth more than any report card.
If month three passes with nothing to show, tell us. The usual fix is a change of pace or a move to one to one.
For adult learners
Keep every program in one folder. Reopening last month's work and finding it easy is the clearest sign of progress.
If you cannot explain a line you wrote, that is the next thing to ask your mentor.
Nine more courses
More coding courses by age, all taught live in English
Pick by age first, then by what the learner wants to make. Group or private, each keeps one mentor.
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Children
Ages 6 to 12
BECO / KIDS / 01
Scratch coding
Games and animations built from blocks, with real logic underneath.
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Fees
Coding class fees for families in Peru
We charge in US dollars, by card, once a month. The conversion into soles is done by your bank at its rate on the day, which is why two monthly statements rarely match to the cent.
Parents and learners in their own words, copied from Google exactly 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."
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Parent of Dhairya
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"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."
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Parent
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"I highly recommend this computer coding class! The teachers are incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about coding."
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Questions from Peru
Choosing coding classes in Peru: questions and answers
Are the classes in Spanish?
No, never. We teach every lesson live and online in English. Our mentors, based in India, pace their speech to the learner, get used to a Peruvian accent quickly, and leave the code on screen so nobody depends on listening alone.
Which are the best coding classes in Peru?
We will not rank providers, and you should distrust anyone who ranks themselves first. The useful question is which class fits your learner. Watch one free class and count the minutes spent typing, check that the mentor knows names, and ask what will be built in three months.
At what age can my child start coding?
From about 6, with blocks and simple games. Children usually move to typed code such as Python between 9 and 12, and teenagers can start directly with Python or Java. Adults can start at any age.
Do Peruvian schools teach coding?
Rarely, and never as a timetabled area: Peru's CNEB plans of study list none for computing. Digital work is spread across subjects as a shared competency. The exceptions are MINEDU's Python pilot for 1,000 pupils in Lima Norte and UTEC's free olympiads.
What time would classes be in Lima?
Any day, any time, flexible: choose a batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at the hour that suits your family. Neither country changes its clocks, so the gap never moves: a 09:00 class in Lima starts at 19:30 for the mentor in India.
How big are the groups?
Fifteen to twenty learners of a similar age, or one to one. The same mentor teaches the group for the whole course and knows each learner by name.
Is there a certificate?
Learners who pass the final exam of a course receive a certificate of completion from Modern Age Coders. That is all it is: Peruvian schools, MINEDU and universities play no part in it.
Can learners use ChatGPT in class?
Not to write their work. Teenagers and children never sign up for adult AI accounts with us, because vendors set age floors: 18 for Claude, and parental permission below 18 for ChatGPT. Adults may ask a chatbot about an error, then explain the fix themselves.
Does my child need a computer?
For a full course, yes, a laptop or desktop. A tablet works for young children using blocks, and a phone is enough to watch the free first class. A computer shared with siblings is fine; we fit hours around it.
How do I pay from Peru?
A card payment each month, in US dollars; the bank handles conversion to soles. Nothing is charged for the trial lesson, and we do not ask for card details to book it.
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