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Course picks for Tennessee

Four courses Tennessee families ask about first

Pick by grade to begin with. The free lesson then checks the level, so a seventh grader who already writes JavaScript can skip ahead.

Grades 3 to 6

Game Development for Kids

Games built step by step, with scoring, levels and characters, so loops and conditions arrive as tools for fun rather than as theory.

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Grades 7 to 9

JavaScript for Teens

Interactive web pages that respond to clicks and keys, a quick route to something a friend can open on their own phone.

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Grades 8 to 12

Python for Teens

Python from first principles to files, dates and data, the toolkit behind the Nashville library hours project.

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Grades 10 to 12

AP Computer Science Principles

The AP Computer Science Principles framework, the Create performance task and exam practice, taught alongside school.

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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 published figures

A twenty-two point rise in one school year

Every Tennessee value below is copied from two spreadsheets: the Access and Participation tabs of the Code.org 2025 report data, and the College Board count of schools giving AP exams. Blank years stay blank.

Tennessee: share of high schools offering CS, and share of high school students enrolled in it
Year	Schools offering CS	Students enrolled
2018 to 2019	Not reported	Not in the sheet
2019 to 2020	50%	Not in the sheet
2020 to 2021	54%	5.3%
2021 to 2022	60%	4.7%
2022 to 2023	64%	5.35%
2023 to 2024	60.8%	5.96%
2024 to 2025	82.8%, or 384 of 464	13.23%, or 39,819 of 300,911

Tennessee beside the 2024 to 2025 national row, and AP schools from the College Board
Measure	Tennessee	For comparison
High schools offering CS, 2024 to 2025	82.8%	60% nationally
Students enrolled in CS, 2024 to 2025	13.23%	6.1% nationally
Schools with AP exams, 2023	438 (349 public, 89 non-public)	College Board count
Schools with AP exams, 2024	449 (358 public, 91 non-public)	College Board count

On these figures, Tennessee moved from just above the national access line to well above it in a single year, and the enrolled share more than doubled. The sheet records the source for 2024 to 2025 as the state education agency. It does not say why the numbers moved, and we could not read the Tennessee Department of Education site to check, so we do not offer a reason.

Citation for every access and participation value here: Code.org (2025). 2025 State of AI + CS Education. We quote single Tennessee values and do not republish the dataset.

Reading a big change

Three questions to ask whenever a statistic leaps

A sudden jump in a published series is good news to check, not to repeat blindly. These questions are the same ones we teach students to ask of any dataset, applied to Tennessee’s own figures.

Is the denominator the same?

The Code.org sheet notes that its total of high school students comes from the NCES count for fall 2022. So 13.23% compares a 2024 to 2025 enrollment with a fall 2022 student total: a fair estimate, but not a same-year census.

Was it measured the same way?

A change in what counts as a computer science course, or in how schools report, can move a percentage as much as a change in classrooms can. The sheet alone cannot tell the two apart, and neither can we.

What does it mean for one student?

Even at 82.8%, about one Tennessee high school in six did not report a computer science offering. A family still needs to ask their own school what runs, in which grade and at what level.

This habit has a name in our classes: say what the number is before saying what it means. Students who learn it on state statistics carry it into their own code, where the cost of a misread number is a wrong answer handed in with confidence.

Signature project

When is a Nashville library open? Teaching code to read the clock

Metro Nashville publishes its 21 public library locations as open data, with opening and closing times for every day of the week. The times are typed as text, which makes them a perfect first lesson in datetime handling.

What the raw hours look like before cleaning (our counts from Metro Nashville Library Facilities, fetched 18 October 2026)
What we checked	Count
Library records	21
Opening and closing cells (21 records, 7 days, 2 times each)	294
Empty cells, meaning closed that day	54
Times written with a space before AM or PM, such as 5:00 PM	25
Times written without one, such as 5:00PM	215

Weekly opening hours per library after parsing (our calculation)
Hours open per week	Libraries
58	5
56	3
39	12
32	1

1. Normalize the text

Two spellings of the same time break a naive parser. Students strip the stray space, then parse each value with one format string, and count how many cells needed fixing before trusting the rest.

2. Subtract times

Closing minus opening gives hours per day, summed over the week: 958 library hours across all 21 records. Only 8 libraries list Friday hours and only 8 list Sunday hours, while 20 open on Saturday.

3. Attach a time zone

The service metadata gives a preferred time reference of America/Chicago, while its date fields are stored as Etc/UTC. A time with no zone is ambiguous; students attach the right one before converting.

The conversion step is where Tennessee earns its place in the lesson. The latest closing time anywhere in the data is 8:00 PM in Nashville, which is 9:00 PM on an Eastern Time clock across eastern Tennessee and early the next morning in India. In Python the key line is close = datetime(2026, 10, 19, 20, 0, tzinfo=ZoneInfo("America/Chicago")), then close.astimezone(ZoneInfo("America/New_York")). Students also notice that all 21 records answer Yes in the PublicComputers field, and 7 in a field called StudioNPL, and learn to report a field’s values without guessing what the library means by it.

Our numbers, labelled as ours

Every count and total in this section comes from our own parsing of one download. Metro Nashville publishes the hours, not these sums, and libraries change their hours, so a student who reruns the code next season may get different answers. That is the point: the method is the product.

Two time zones

One class time, three local clocks

The IANA time zone database places eastern Tennessee in the Eastern list and western Tennessee in the Central list. We schedule each family in their own zone and say which zone every time is in.

One example class, shown in each zone (our worked example, before and after the November 1, 2026 change)
Clock	Until October 31, 2026	From November 1, 2026
Eastern Time, eastern Tennessee	7:00 p.m.	7:00 p.m.
Central Time, western Tennessee	6:00 p.m.	6:00 p.m.
India time, where the teacher is	4:30 a.m. the next day	5:30 a.m. the next day

Why India shifts

Both US zones move their clocks together, so Eastern and Central stay one hour apart all year. India does not move, so the teacher’s hour changes when Tennessee’s does.

The dates in the rule

The US rule in the IANA data changes clocks at 2 a.m. local time on the first Sunday in November and the second Sunday in March: November 1, 2026 and March 14, 2027.

Mixed batches

A batch can hold students from both halves of the state. We always print the time in each student’s zone, so no one joins an hour early or late.

Booking across the line

If a parent works in one zone and the student studies in the other, tell us which clock the student lives by, and every reminder is sent in that zone.

Learning ladder

From a first game to AP Computer Science Principles

A guide to typical starting points. The placement lesson decides the real one.

Grades K to 3

Blocks and stories

Drag-and-drop programs, simple animations and the idea that a computer follows steps exactly.

Coding for Kids Scratch Coding for Kids

Grades 4 to 6

Games with rules

Scores, levels and enemies that move on their own: logic practised through play.

Game Development for Kids Python and AI for Kids

Grades 7 to 9

Typed code for the web

JavaScript and Python side by side, with pages and small tools a student can share.

JavaScript for Teens Python for Teens

Grades 10 to 12

AP and AI

AP Computer Science Principles and machine learning projects tested on real data.

AP Computer Science Principles AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Coding and AI

An AI assistant will convert a time for you. Will it pick the right zone?

Only if somebody tells it which zone the time was in to begin with.

Paste the Nashville hours into a chatbot and ask when the libraries close on Eastern Time, and it may well get it right. Ask without saying the hours are local Nashville times, and it has to guess. A plain string such as 8:00PM carries no zone at all, which is exactly why the service publishes a preferred time reference.

Students who have parsed the strings themselves know the guess is there, so they supply the missing context or check the result. That is the working relationship with AI we teach: the student sets up the problem precisely, the tool helps with the routine part, and the student verifies the answer against something they trust.

In a state with two clocks, knowing which one a number belongs to is not trivia; it is the difference between a program that works and one that is an hour wrong. The longer argument is in the case for still learning to code in 2026.

Delivery

From Memphis to the Smokies, the same live lesson

A class online means no drive across a long state, and no difference between a city student and a rural one.

At home, on any computer

Students log in from a laptop or desktop at home. Families in Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville join exactly the same lessons.

Grades, not years

Teachers work in US grade levels and around the Tennessee school calendar. Graded school assignments stay the student’s own work.

A free first lesson

A short real task tells the teacher where to start. No card or payment details are asked for at this stage.

Small, matched groups

Batches of fifteen to twenty who share a level, gathered from Tennessee and other states.

Private lessons

A teacher and one student, for a faster pace, AP preparation or a specific project.

When classes run

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

Nothing to visit

Lessons are live online, taught from India. Modern Age Coders has no premises in Tennessee and claims none. Working sound, a camera if possible and a reliable connection are the only equipment.

Fees

Fees for Tennessee families

Printed in US dollars, the same everywhere in the state.

First classUSD 0

A full first lesson with a teacher, free, ending with a suggested level, course and time.

Group tuitionUSD 100

A month of classes in a level-matched batch of fifteen to twenty.

Private tuitionUSD 150

A month of one-to-one classes with a single teacher.

Families in Tennessee pay one rate in US dollars wherever they live and whichever zone they are in. Nothing is charged before the free lesson and an agreed plan; holidays and missed lessons are explained on the pricing page.

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Free placement class

Ask for a free lesson in your Tennessee time zone

Give us the student’s grade and tell us whether you are on Eastern or Central Time. The first task fits the student: a small game for a fourth grader, a web page for an eighth grader, or the library hours parser for a junior.

FAQ

Tennessee coding and AI questions

Short answers on the figures, the clocks and the classes.

How many Tennessee high schools offer computer science?

Code.org (2025) reports 384 of 464 Tennessee high schools, or 82.8%, offering computer science in 2024 to 2025, against 60% nationally.

How many Tennessee students take computer science?

The same data reports 39,819 high school students enrolled in 2024 to 2025, or 13.23% of a fall 2022 total of 300,911, against 6.1% nationally.

Why did the Tennessee numbers jump in 2024 to 2025?

The source does not say, and the Tennessee Department of Education site refused our request when we checked, so we give no reason. Access rose from 60.8% to 82.8% in one year.

Does Tennessee require computer science to graduate?

We print no Tennessee rule on this page because we could not read the department or legislature sites on 17 and 18 October 2026. Please check with your school counselor.

How many Tennessee schools give AP exams?

The College Board lists 438 Tennessee schools with AP exams in 2023 and 449 in 2024, public and non-public together.

Which time zone will my class be in?

Your own. The IANA database puts eastern Tennessee on Eastern Time and western Tennessee on Central Time, and we schedule and remind in whichever applies to your family.

What does the Nashville library project teach?

Parsing times typed as text, adding up weekly hours and converting between zones. Students parse 294 opening and closing cells for 21 libraries and label every total as their own.

Do your classes count for school credit in Tennessee?

We do not claim that. Credit is the school district's decision. Our classes add skills, projects and exam preparation alongside school.

When are classes held?

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

Is there a Tennessee location?

No. Teaching is entirely live online from India, and no Tennessee office or classroom exists or is claimed.

Explore the United States

Four courses Tennessee families ask about first

Game Development for Kids

JavaScript for Teens

Python 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

A twenty-two point rise in one school year

Three questions to ask whenever a statistic leaps

Is the denominator the same?

Was it measured the same way?

What does it mean for one student?

When is a Nashville library open? Teaching code to read the clock

1. Normalize the text

2. Subtract times

3. Attach a time zone

Our numbers, labelled as ours

One class time, three local clocks

Why India shifts

The dates in the rule

Mixed batches

From a first game to AP Computer Science Principles

Blocks and stories

Games with rules

Typed code for the web

AP and AI

An AI assistant will convert a time for you. Will it pick the right zone?

From Memphis to the Smokies, the same live lesson

At home, on any computer

Grades, not years

A free first lesson

Small, matched groups

Private lessons

When classes run

Fees for Tennessee families

What families have written about us on Google

Ask for a free lesson in your Tennessee time zone

Tennessee coding and AI questions

How many Tennessee high schools offer computer science?

How many Tennessee students take computer science?

Why did the Tennessee numbers jump in 2024 to 2025?

Does Tennessee require computer science to graduate?

How many Tennessee schools give AP exams?

Which time zone will my class be in?

What does the Nashville library project teach?

Do your classes count for school credit in Tennessee?

When are classes held?

Is there a Tennessee location?

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