Coding and AI Classes in South Carolina

Course picks for South Carolina

Four courses that build past the required unit

Choose by grade, then let the free lesson confirm the level. A student who has finished the school unit early can start further up.

Kindergarten to grade 4

Coding for Kids

Block coding with characters, music and simple games, so sequencing and repetition feel natural long before high school.

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Grades 3 to 6

Minecraft Coding for Kids

Code inside a world children already know, with loops that build structures and conditions that change the game.

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Grades 8 to 12

Data Science for Teens

Python for real tables: loading, cleaning, deduplicating and charting, as in the Charleston parks project below.

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Grades 10 to 12

AP Computer Science Principles

AP Computer Science Principles, its Create performance task and the exam, for students who want more than one unit.

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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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The diploma rule

One unit of computer science, written into Regulation 43-234

South Carolina’s graduation requirements sit in the State Board of Education regulations, which the South Carolina Legislature publishes in its Code of Regulations, Chapter 43. We read the regulation there on 18 October 2026, because the Department of Education website did not respond.

What Regulation 43-234, Defined Program, Grades 9 to 12 and Graduation Requirements, says about computer science and credit
Topic	The regulation text
Total units	The student must earn a total of twenty-four units of credit, set out in a table of subjects
Computer science	The unit table lists computer science 1.0
Keyboarding	A student who earned the one-half credit in Keyboarding by the 2017 to 2018 school year is awarded one-half unit of credit for Computer Science
What a unit means	One unit for an academic standards-based course of at least 120 hours of instruction; one-half unit for at least 60 hours
Advanced Placement	Schools whose structure includes grades eleven and twelve must offer Advanced Placement courses
Virtual courses	Where a school’s courses do not meet a student’s needs, Virtual SC courses, if available, must be offered by the district

Since 1997 to 1998

State law, Section 59-39-100 of the South Carolina Code, records that the diploma rose to twenty-four units for students entering ninth grade in the 1997 to 1998 school year.

The Profile of the Graduate

The same section says that for students entering ninth grade from the 2018 to 2019 school year, the twenty-four units are prescribed in that section and in State Board regulation, to support the Profile of the Graduate.

What 120 hours buys

A full unit is a substantial course, but it is still one course. It can cover the basics well; it cannot also cover a second language, AP preparation and a portfolio of projects.

We quote the regulation and statute as published and add no interpretation of how individual districts schedule the unit. Families with a question about a particular course should ask their school counselor, who works from the district’s course coding manual.

The published figures

Nine in ten high schools offer it; about a quarter of students were enrolled

South Carolina values from two spreadsheets: Code.org’s 2025 report data (Access and Participation tabs) and the College Board count of schools giving AP exams. Where the Code.org sheet has a dash, we leave the year empty.

South Carolina high schools offering CS, and students enrolled in CS (Code.org, 2025)
Year	Schools offering CS	Students enrolled in CS
2018 to 2019	69%	Not in the sheet
2019 to 2020	80%	Not in the sheet
2020 to 2021	90%	21.8%
2021 to 2022	93%	27.5%
2022 to 2023	94%	Not reported
2023 to 2024	91.7%	25.67%, or 61,733 of 240,463
2024 to 2025	92%, or 276 of 300	Not reported

AP schools in South Carolina, from the College Board School Report of AP Exams by State
Year	All schools with AP exams	Public	Non-public
2023	378	246	132
2024	380	305	75

Against the national line these are high numbers. The Code.org national row shows 60% of high schools offering computer science and 6.4% of students enrolled in 2023 to 2024, so South Carolina’s 25.67% was about four times the national share that year. The sheet does not say which courses South Carolina counted, so we print the figure as published and do not link it to the diploma rule ourselves. The student total behind the percentage is the NCES fall 2022 count.

The AP table carries its own puzzle for a careful reader: the total barely moved from 2023 to 2024, while the public and non-public columns moved sharply in opposite directions. The College Board file gives no reason, so we do not suggest one. Citation for the access and participation values: Code.org (2025). 2025 State of AI + CS Education.

Signature project

How many Charleston parks are there? A lesson in duplicates

The City of Charleston Open Data hub publishes a Parks layer with one row per park or recreation facility. Counting rows gives one answer. Counting parks properly gives another, and the gap teaches more than any tutorial.

What the Charleston Parks layer contains (our counts from the download of 18 October 2026)
Check	Result
Rows in the layer	132
Distinct FACILITYSITEID values	131
Site ID that appears twice	FAC-848
Rows marked PARKFAC and RECFAC	115 and 17
Amenity cells that are a space, empty or null	1,640 of 1,848

Pick the key

Park names look like a key, and here they nearly are, but the robust choice is the facility site ID. Grouping by it shows 131 sites in 132 rows, so exactly one site is listed twice.

Near, not exact

The two FAC-848 rows are not identical copies. One link begins https and the other http, and they disagree on RESTROOM, DOGPARK and ULTIMATEGOLF. Deleting either row silently changes the amenity counts.

Three ways to say nothing

An amenity can be YES, NO, a single space, an empty string or null. PICNICAREA alone has 27 YES, 50 empty strings and 55 nulls. Students map all three blanks to one value before counting.

Amenities marked YES across all 132 rows, before deduplication (our counts)
Amenity field	Rows marked YES
PLAYGROUND	43
PICNICAREA	27
BASKETBALL	21
TENNIS	15
DOGPARK	11

The project ends with a decision rather than a formula. Students write a rule, for example keep the row with the https link, document it in a comment, and rerun the counts: the dog park total then becomes 10 instead of 11. In pandas the check is df.duplicated(subset=["FACILITYSITEID"], keep=False), which returns both FAC-848 rows so they can be compared side by side. The regions in the data, from the Peninsula with 70 rows to Cainhoy with 1, make a second exercise in grouping once the duplicate is resolved.

Ours, and provisional

Every count here is our own, from one download. The City of Charleston states that it makes no warranty about the data and disclaims any guarantee of accuracy or completeness, and the city publishes no park total in this form. A student who can explain exactly why their total is 131 has learned the lesson.

Beyond one unit

Using the four high school years well

Our suggested plan for a South Carolina student who wants computer science to be more than a box ticked. It is advice, not a requirement, and it never replaces the school unit.

A four-year computer science plan alongside the required unit (our plan)
Grade	At school	With us
9	The computer science unit, if the school schedules it early	Python foundations so the school course feels comfortable
10	Other required units	Data projects like the Charleston parks cleanup, and a first web page
11	Advanced Placement courses where offered	AP Computer Science Principles content and the Create task, or Java for AP CS A
12	Electives and any remaining units	A larger independent project, machine learning or a competition entry

Younger students follow the same idea at a gentler pace: block coding from kindergarten, Minecraft or game coding in upper elementary, and typed Python in middle school. By ninth grade the required unit becomes a chance to shine rather than a first encounter.

Class times

Eastern Time for the whole state

In the IANA time zone database, South Carolina appears in the list of states on US Eastern Time, kept under America/New_York.

A worked example

A 6:00 p.m. lesson in Columbia begins at 3:30 a.m. in India while daylight saving lasts, and at 4:30 a.m. once standard time returns. The South Carolina time never moves; only the teacher’s does.

Two changes a year

The IANA rule for the United States moves clocks on the first Sunday in November and the second Sunday in March. This school year that means November 1, 2026 and March 14, 2027.

Confirmed in writing

Every class time we send is written in Eastern Time, and we resend it in the week of each clock change so that nobody misses a lesson.

Clocks inside code

Students who build a simple class reminder learn to store times with a named zone such as America/New_York, not a fixed offset, so that the reminder survives the November change without a fix.

Learning ladder

From block coding to AP Computer Science Principles

Typical starting points by grade; the placement lesson decides the actual rung.

Grades K to 2

First programs

Short block programs, patterns and puzzles that build the habit of thinking in steps.

Coding for Kids Scratch Coding for Kids

Grades 3 to 6

Worlds and games

Minecraft and game projects where loops and conditions have visible results.

Minecraft Coding for Kids Game Development for Kids

Grades 7 to 9

Python and the web

Typed code, simple data work and pages a student can share, ready for the school unit.

Python and AI for Kids HTML & CSS for Beginners

Grades 10 to 12

AP and data science

AP Computer Science Principles, and Python projects on real public data.

AP Computer Science Principles Data Science for Teens

Coding and AI

Ask an AI how many parks Charleston has, and it will count rows

The tool is quick. The judgement about what counts as one park is still the student’s.

Hand a chatbot the Charleston file and ask for the number of parks, and the likely reply is 132. Ask it to remove duplicates and it may delete one FAC-848 row without mentioning that the two rows disagree about a restroom and a dog park. The answer looks tidy and hides a choice nobody made on purpose.

Students who have done the deduplication by hand know to ask which key was used and which copy was kept. That is how we teach AI in every course: use it to save typing, never to skip the decision, and always read what it changed.

South Carolina already gives every student a unit of computer science; the habit of checking a result is what turns that unit into a skill. The longer argument is in why learning to code still matters in 2026.

Delivery

From Greenville to Beaufort, the classroom is a browser tab

No commute, no center, and the same lesson whether a student lives in a city or a small town.

Learn from home

Students join from their own computer in Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Myrtle Beach or anywhere else in the state.

Built around US school

Teachers use US grades and plan around the school calendar. Graded school work, including anything for the required unit, stays the student’s own.

Start free

One free lesson with a real task shows the right starting level. We ask for no card or payment details for it.

Groups by stage

Fifteen to twenty students at a similar coding level, from South Carolina and across the United States.

Individual tuition

One student and one teacher, for AP work, a faster pace or a particular project.

Times

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays.

Online, from India

Every lesson is live online and taught from India. Modern Age Coders has no South Carolina office or classroom and does not claim one. A computer, sound and a dependable connection are enough.

Fees

Fees for South Carolina families

Three prices, in US dollars, with nothing added later.

First classUSD 0

A first lesson at no cost, ending with a suggested course, level and time.

Group tuitionUSD 100

A month of live classes in a batch of fifteen to twenty at the same stage.

Private tuitionUSD 150

A month of live classes with one teacher for one student.

Families anywhere in South Carolina pay the same US dollar rate. We bill only after the free lesson, once course and time are agreed; the pricing page sets out holidays and missed lessons.

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Reviews

Parents and students reviewing us on Google

Rated 4.9 across 547 Google reviews. These are real reviews, reproduced as written.

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"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."

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Free placement class

Arrange a free lesson for a South Carolina student

Tell us the grade and what the student has tried so far. A kindergartner gets a block puzzle, a fifth grader a Minecraft build, and a high schooler the Charleston duplicate hunt.

FAQ

South Carolina coding and AI questions

Answers from the regulation, the published figures and how our classes run.

Is computer science a graduation requirement in South Carolina?

Yes. State Board of Education Regulation 43-234 lists computer science 1.0 among the twenty-four units of credit required for a South Carolina high school diploma.

Does keyboarding count toward the computer science unit?

Partly. The regulation says a student who earned the one-half credit in Keyboarding by the 2017 to 2018 school year is awarded one-half unit of credit for Computer Science.

How many hours is one unit of credit?

Regulation 43-234 allows one unit for an academic standards-based course of at least 120 hours of instruction, and one-half unit for at least 60 hours.

How many South Carolina high schools offer computer science?

Code.org (2025) reports 276 of 300 South Carolina high schools, or 92%, offering computer science in 2024 to 2025.

How many students take computer science in South Carolina?

The same data reports 61,733 of 240,463 high school students, or 25.67%, enrolled in 2023 to 2024, against 6.4% nationally.

Do South Carolina high schools have to offer AP?

Regulation 43-234 says schools whose structure includes grades eleven and twelve must offer Advanced Placement courses. The College Board lists 380 schools with AP exams in 2024.

Can a class with you count as the computer science unit?

We make no such claim. Units are awarded by schools and districts under the regulation. Our classes add depth and projects alongside the school course.

What does the Charleston parks project teach?

Deduplication. Students find that 132 rows describe 131 park sites, compare the two rows for one site, choose a rule for which to keep and recount, labelling every result as their own.

What time zone are South Carolina classes in?

Eastern Time. We confirm every time in Eastern and resend it around the changes on November 1, 2026 and March 14, 2027.

When can classes be scheduled?

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays.

Do you have a South Carolina center?

No. All classes are live online from India, and no South Carolina premises exist or are claimed.

Explore the United States

Four courses that build past the required unit

Coding for Kids

Minecraft Coding for Kids

Data Science for Teens

AP Computer Science Principles

Python, AI, vibe coding and agentic coding

Vibe Coding for Teens

Python Automation Course

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Codex & Claude Code

One unit of computer science, written into Regulation 43-234

Since 1997 to 1998

The Profile of the Graduate

What 120 hours buys

Nine in ten high schools offer it; about a quarter of students were enrolled

How many Charleston parks are there? A lesson in duplicates

Pick the key

Near, not exact

Three ways to say nothing

Ours, and provisional

Using the four high school years well

Eastern Time for the whole state

A worked example

Two changes a year

Confirmed in writing

From block coding to AP Computer Science Principles

First programs

Worlds and games

Python and the web

AP and data science

Ask an AI how many parks Charleston has, and it will count rows

From Greenville to Beaufort, the classroom is a browser tab

Learn from home

Built around US school

Start free

Groups by stage

Individual tuition

Times

Fees for South Carolina families

Parents and students reviewing us on Google

Arrange a free lesson for a South Carolina student

South Carolina coding and AI questions

Is computer science a graduation requirement in South Carolina?

Does keyboarding count toward the computer science unit?

How many hours is one unit of credit?

How many South Carolina high schools offer computer science?

How many students take computer science in South Carolina?

Do South Carolina high schools have to offer AP?

Can a class with you count as the computer science unit?

What does the Charleston parks project teach?

What time zone are South Carolina classes in?

When can classes be scheduled?

Do you have a South Carolina center?

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