Written for Riyadh parents, ages six to twelve

Coding Classes for Kids in Riyadh

A weekly hour in which a Riyadh child stops tapping other people's apps and starts writing instructions of their own. One live teacher, a group small enough to count on one hand and a bit, and at the end of most classes something on the screen that did not exist an hour before.

Your child already spends part of every day on a device; that argument ended years ago. The useful question left is what the device is doing to them. Coding is one of the few answers that turns it into a workbench rather than a vending machine.

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The courses

Kids first on this page, as it should be

Three courses built for six to twelve year olds, then the teen tracks waiting above them. Open any card for the full syllabus, timings and fee.

Kids, 6 to 12 The rungs above: Teens

Learning for yourself rather than for a child? The college and professional tracks are gathered on the main Coding Classes in Riyadh page.

The case

A building hour, in a city that is building everything

Raising children in Riyadh right now means raising them inside a construction site the size of a country's ambitions. Cranes over the skyline, new districts with new names, and a steady message from every direction that technology is where the Kingdom is headed. Children absorb that message younger than we think. What they rarely get is a place to act on it, because school computing periods are short and the tablet at home mostly plays them things.

A weekly coding class is a small, concrete answer. For one supervised hour your child is the one deciding what happens on the screen: what the character says, when the loop stops, why the answer was wrong the first three times. The wrongness matters as much as anything. A child who learns to be wrong, check, adjust and try again has picked up a habit that outlasts any single technology, and it shows up in maths homework long before it shows up in a career.

The city's practical rhythms happen to suit the format. Riyadh is spread out, the traffic is real, and for a good part of the year the afternoon belongs indoors. An online class removes the drive entirely: no crossing town at rush hour for a one-hour lesson, no burning an hour in a coffee shop until pickup. The class comes to the child's desk, in the AST evening, after homework and before dinner settles the house.

What we will not claim

We will not tell you that coding at seven determines a future at twenty-seven, and we would be careful of anyone who does. Childhood interests wander, and they should. What a well-run class gives a six to twelve year old is narrower and more honest: the experience of finishing things, the discovery that machines obey precise instructions and ignore vague ones, and a growing suspicion that the apps they use were made by ordinary people, which means they could be made by them.

Everything else on this page, the batch sizes, the teachers, the progress notes, exists to serve those three outcomes. Judge us in the demo hour, which costs nothing and behaves exactly like the classes that follow it.

The work itself

What the projects look like, age by age

Parents deserve better than a topic list, so here is the ladder described by what a child actually makes on each rung. The ages are typical, not enforced; the teacher moves a child up when the work says so.

A story that obeysAround ages 6 to 8

Block coding in the Scratch style. The child arranges commands like puzzle pieces and a character on screen acts them out: walk here, say this, repeat that three times. Sequence, loop and condition arrive as story tools, not vocabulary words. Success at this rung looks like a child narrating their own logic out loud without noticing they are doing it.

A drawing made of codeAround ages 8 to 10

The keyboard joins in. First typed Python, through turtle graphics: a handful of lines produces a square, then a star, then a spinning pattern the child invents and refuses to stop improving. Because every mistake changes the picture, debugging becomes looking, and looking is something an eight year old is excellent at.

A game with rulesAround ages 10 to 12

Variables, conditions and functions put to work on purpose: a quiz game that keeps score, a dice game with house rules, a first chatbot that answers back in the child's own script. Somewhere on this rung children start fixing their own errors before raising a hand, which is the quiet milestone the whole ladder points at. Friendly AI ideas enter here too, at eye level and without mystique.

The teen roadAge 13 and beyond

The ladder does not end at twelve. Python for Teens takes the language the rest of the way, and the AI and machine learning track follows for those who want it, often with the same teacher who taught the early rungs. Nothing needs to be relearned, because nothing on the kids rungs was a toy version of the truth.

Getting started

How the first month usually goes

For a family joining from Riyadh, the path from curiosity to a settled routine takes about four weeks and looks like this.

The demo hour

Your child attends one full live class, free, with you welcome beside them. The teacher watches how the child thinks, not just whether they enjoy it, and gives you a straight recommendation afterwards, including wait a while if that is the honest one.

Picking the slot

You choose one weekly hour from the AST evening and weekend options, and it becomes your child's fixed slot, same day, same time, same teacher. Routine does half the teaching at this age.

The first classes

Early sessions are deliberately winnable. The child builds small things that work on the first or second try, learns the class rhythms, and stops being shy about unmuting, usually by week two.

The first note home

Within the month you receive a written update in ordinary sentences: what the class worked on, where your child sped ahead, and what gets practised next. From then on the notes keep coming and the projects keep accumulating.

Accountability

The parent's half of the arrangement

A teacher who knows the child

One instructor keeps the group across the months wherever possible. They come to know who sprints, who stalls, and who is quietly ready for the harder question.

A group you can count in the demo

Five to eight children, enforced. Sit in on the free class and count the faces yourself; few academies invite that kind of checking, which is exactly why we do.

Notes home you can actually read

No dashboards, no jargon. Short written updates that say what happened and what comes next, so progress is something you are told, not something you infer.

Proof that runs on your laptop

The clearest report card at this age is the project itself. Ask your child to run the game for you; if it works and they can explain it, the month was worth it.

Certificates that mean something

Finishing a course earns a certificate tied to the work that was built, ready for the school portfolio drawer and honest about what it certifies.

The free hour before any fee

Money enters the conversation only after you have watched a full class. That order is deliberate, and it never reverses.

Verified reviews

Straight from the parents

Classes run live and online, which seats a Riyadh child beside classmates joining from many countries. Each one below is quoted exactly as it was written and belongs to a real, verifiable reviewer; the longer collection lives on our Wall of Love.

"Mivaan enjoys the class. He understands the concepts and completes his tasks with excitement. He has started taking real interest in coding. Truly an amazing class."

Shradha Saraf

Parent of Mivaan

"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 and listen to our suggestions. Overall, I am very happy with the class."

Sonam Oswal

Parent of Dhairya

"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. The projects were challenging and rewarding."

Ria Mukherjee

Parent

"My son has been attending this class for a few months and I have been genuinely impressed with his progress and enthusiasm. The instructors are patient and knowledgeable. He looks forward to every class and his confidence has grown."

Poonam Rathore

Parent

Keep reading

Neighbouring guides for Saudi families

This page covers children in one city. The pages below widen the lens, whether the learner is older, elsewhere in the Kingdom, or already set on a particular subject.

Coding Classes in Saudi Arabia

One page for the whole Kingdom: every age band, every track, and the details of the live format.
Coding Classes in Riyadh

The all-ages Riyadh page, where the teen, college and professional tracks get their proper introductions.
Python Classes in Saudi Arabia

For families already sure the answer is Python: every track in the language, age eight to adult.
AI Classes in Saudi Arabia

What our AI courses actually teach, from a kid-safe first tour of the tools to trained models and agents.

Fees

What it costs, said once and plainly

The fee is charged in US dollars once a month. In riyals the plans land near the figures shown, and they move only as the dollar moves.

Group classes

$40 per month

about SAR 150 per month

  • One live hour weekly, 5 to 8 children
  • Fixed AST evening or weekend slot
  • Projects the child keeps, certificate at the end
  • Nothing billed before the free demo
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One-on-one classes

$100 per month

about SAR 375 per month

  • The teacher's whole hour, one child
  • Timings shaped around the family week
  • Pace tuned to exactly one learner
  • Nothing billed before the free demo
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No admission charge, no materials fee, no term contract. A demo that fails to persuade you costs exactly what it promised: nothing.

Questions

What Riyadh parents ask before the demo

My child is six. Is that too young to start coding?
Sometimes, honestly. Six works when a child can read simple words and stay with a puzzle for a few minutes. Some six year olds have that patience already and some grow into it closer to seven, and both are normal. The class itself is built for the age: blocks, colours, short tasks, lots of showing. Book the free demo and let a teacher watch your child work for an hour. If waiting is the wiser call, we will say so to your face.
Does this just add another hour of screen time?
It swaps an hour of feeds for an hour of making, which is a different activity even on the same machine. In class the child is producing, with a teacher guiding and classmates reacting to each other's work. The spillover is what most Riyadh parents report first: within a few weeks the child opens the laptop to finish a project rather than to be entertained.
Do Riyadh kids start with Scratch or Python?
Blocks come first. The youngest snap logic into place by hand in the Scratch style, so nothing depends on typing speed. Around eight or nine, typed Python arrives through drawings the child programs line by line, and by eleven most are writing small genuine programs. Treat the ages as a starting guess. The first class is what actually places a child, not the birthday.
How many children share one class, and who teaches it?
Never more than eight children, usually five or six, with one instructor whose full working day is teaching. The same teacher stays with the group wherever possible, so your child is known, not processed. A family that prefers a private pace can run any of the courses one-on-one instead.
How do I follow what my child is learning?
Two ways, and neither requires interrogating a nine year old at dinner. You receive short written updates covering what the class did, what your child managed alone and what needs another pass. And the projects themselves are evidence you can run at home, because a game that works is difficult to fake.
What do kids coding classes cost in Saudi riyals?
The group plan costs 40 US dollars each month, near SAR 150. A private teacher costs 100 US dollars each month, near SAR 375. Billing renews monthly, there is no admission charge, and stopping whenever it suits the family carries no penalty. The demo class that comes before all of it is free.
What equipment does a six to twelve year old need?
A computer the child can type on, a webcam and ordinary home internet. Tablets are fine for watching but clumsy for writing code, so we suggest a proper keyboard from the first week. Everything we teach with is free software, and the teacher walks your child through the setup during the opening session.
How does the free demo work for young children?
Use the form here, or start on WhatsApp if that is easier. A mentor rings back, asks a couple of questions about your child, then fixes an evening slot that suits you. The demo is one complete live class, and you are welcome to sit beside your child for the whole hour. Nothing is billed and nothing is promised until you decide.

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Let the demo hour argue for us

Bring your child to one free class and stay for all of it. Watch how the teacher handles a wandering attention span, how the other children behave, and what your own child has made by minute sixty. Then decide with evidence instead of adjectives.

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