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Course picks for Amersfoort

Four courses for a city that the rest of the country measures itself against

A groep 5 child in Vathorst, a teenager in Nieuwland who wants the algorithm and not just the framework, a student commuting to Utrecht, and a parent in Hoogland whose team has just been handed a mapping dataset: four doors into one city.

Ages 8 to 12

Problem Solving and Computational Thinking for Kids

Logic, coordinates and the habit of checking an answer, in English, for the groep 5 to 8 child who likes puzzles with a right answer.

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Ages 13 to 18

Python for Teens

Two years from a first line to real projects, for the teenager whose school offers no route into programming.

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College and adult

Data Structures & Algorithms Course

Complexity, structures and interview-ready problem solving, for the student who wants to know why a solution is chosen.

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Adults

Python Masterclass

Python from nothing to advanced, live, for the working parent who has decided to stop waiting for somebody else to write the script.

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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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Amersfoort today

The second city of its province, and the fastest grower among them

The national register held 163,764 people on 1 January 2026, in 73,602 households averaging 2.18 people, on 62.49 square kilometres of land inside 63.86 of territory: a published 2,613 residents to the square kilometre. In 1995 the count was 112,389, so Amersfoort has gained 51,375 people in thirty-one years, a rise of 46 percent, the steepest of any city in this series.

A young city by household

26,970 residents are under fifteen, 16 percent, and 19,421 are between fifteen and twenty-five; 45,323 are between twenty-five and forty-five and 28,061 are sixty-five or over. 27,982 households hold one person, 38 percent. The new districts on the northern edge are where most of the growth since 1995 went.

Schools, and an unusual secondary count

47 primary establishments teach 14,380 pupils and 25 secondary establishments teach 9,900, both for 2025. Twenty-five secondary establishments for a city of this size is a lot, and it reflects a schooling catchment that reaches well beyond the municipal boundary. The municipality reports 4,040 residents in applied higher education and 1,860 at university level.

Sixteenth in the country, second in the province

Its own entry places Amersfoort as the second city of the province of Utrecht and the sixteenth municipality of the Netherlands. It received city rights on 12 June 1259, and the medieval core still shows it: the Koppelpoort, a combined land and water gate, is one of the gates built between 1380 and 1451.

Lange Jan, and the grid that starts here

The Onze-Lieve-Vrouwetoren, known as Lange Jan, stands 98 metres tall and is the third-highest church tower in the country. It is also the central point of the coordinate system of the Rijksdriehoeksmeting, the national triangulation survey, which means that every surveyed position in the Netherlands is expressed relative to this one building in this one city.

Where the learners are

Thirty-three wijken, two villages, and a city that doubled outwards

The statistics office divides the municipality into 33 wijken and 145 buurten, the finest division of any city in this series. Two named villages sit inside the boundary alongside the city itself.

The medieval core

Inside the second wall: the Koppelpoort, the canals, Lange Jan and the streets that were the whole city until the nineteenth century. Small, dense and largely unchanged in outline since the gates were built.

Vathorst

The northern expansion, built from the late 1990s onward and still the newest large district. A big share of the 51,375 people added since 1995 live here, and its primary schools are among the fullest in the province.

Nieuwland and Kattenbroek

The 1980s and 1990s districts between the old city and Vathorst, planned in one go, with their own centres and schools and a generation of children now reaching secondary age.

Schothorst and Zielhorst

North of the railway, the earlier post-war and 1970s expansions, mixed housing and the shortest journeys to the station in the municipality.

Hoogland

A village of its own to the north-west, inside the municipality but not inside the city, with a separate centre and separate primary schools.

Hooglanderveen

The smaller of the two villages, north-east beyond Vathorst, close enough to the new districts to be surrounded by them and old enough to keep its own name and its own school.

All thirty-three wijken and both villages get the same class at the same hour, and none of those boundaries has ever affected placement.

Verified local facts

Every figure, its office, and the exact wording on the origin

The national count, the municipal entry, the tower, the gate, and the sentence that the project below rests on.

The municipal count

Statistics Netherlands, provisional, 1 January 2026: 163,764 residents; 73,602 households averaging 2.18 people, 27,982 of them single-person, 38 percent; 26,970 under fifteen; 19,421 aged fifteen to twenty-five; 45,323 aged twenty-five to forty-five; 28,061 aged sixty-five and over; 47 primary establishments with 14,380 pupils and 25 secondary with 9,900, both 2025; 4,040 residents in applied higher education and 1,860 at university level; total area 6,386 hectares, land 6,249; density 2,613; 33 wijken and 145 buurten; 112,389 residents in 1995, a rise of 51,375.

The municipality, described

Its own entry: 163,766 residents on 1 January 2026, two more than the national figure for the same date, both kept; 63.86 square kilometres, 62.62 of land and 1.24 of water, against 62.49 of land nationally, both kept; mayor Lucas Bolsius; the second city of the province of Utrecht and the sixteenth municipality of the Netherlands; city rights granted on 12 June 1259; the villages Hoogland and Hooglanderveen inside the boundary.

The tower

The Onze-Lieve-Vrouwetoren, called Lange Jan, is 98 metres tall and the third-highest church tower in the Netherlands. It is the central point of the coordinate system of the Rijksdriehoeksmeting.

The origin, in the source's own words

The same entry records that the tower was the origin of the system, and that around 1970 the origin was moved for practical reasons to a point outside the Netherlands, so that the tower now has exactly the coordinates x equals 155,000 metres and y equals 463,000 metres. The shift is the whole of the project below and nothing else on this page depends on it.

The gate

The Koppelpoort is a combined land and water gate, one of the city gates built between 1380 and 1451. Its architect and a single construction year were not found at source and are not stated here.

What is not claimed

This page does not state why the particular values 155,000 and 463,000 were chosen beyond the reason its source gives, which is that the origin was placed outside the country for practical reasons. Any explanation involving the ordering of the two axes is left out because no source read here says it.

Modern Age Coders has no connection to the municipality, the survey, the tower or any school named here and claims none. They appear because a page that teaches in Amersfoort should know what the rest of the country measures from.

Signature project

Two neighbours, 489 kilometres apart: build the program that catches a mixed coordinate system

One tower, two numberings, a constant offset, and an error that looks like a plausible distance until you check the scale.

1. Move the origin on paper

Under the old numbering the tower is at zero, zero. Under the current one it is at 155,000 and 463,000. Every other point in the country shifted by exactly the same amounts, because a change of origin adds a constant to every coordinate. The learner writes the two lines that convert between the systems and confirms the tower round-trips.

2. Find what survives the move

A point 700 metres west and 300 metres south of the tower is at minus 700, minus 300 in the old numbering and at 154,300 by 462,700 in the new. Its distance from the tower is 762 metres either way, because subtraction cancels the constant. Distances, bearings and areas are unchanged; the coordinates themselves are not.

3. Mix the two and watch it fail quietly

Now take the tower in old coordinates and the neighbour in new ones, and compute the distance between them. The answer is about 489 kilometres, which is roughly the length of the country. It is not an error message, it is not a negative number and it is not obviously absurd on a screen. That is exactly what makes it dangerous.

One tower, one neighbour, and what each numbering says
Quantity	Old numbering	Current numbering	Changed by the shift?
The tower	0, 0	155,000, 463,000	yes, by the offset
A point 700 m west and 300 m south	minus 700, minus 300	154,300, 462,700	yes, by the same offset
Distance between those two points	762 metres	762 metres	no
Distance if the two points are taken from different systems	not applicable	about 489 kilometres	a pure artefact of mixing

Coordinates are relative to a choice; differences are not

An absolute coordinate is only meaningful once you say which origin it is measured from, and origins are chosen by committees for practical reasons, moved when the reasons change, and rarely recorded in the same file as the numbers. What survives a change of origin is every quantity built from differences: distances, areas, bearings, shapes. What does not survive is any statement about a single point on its own. The practical rule is to carry the name of the system alongside every coordinate, refuse to combine two points whose systems differ, and use a sanity check on scale, because a wrong answer here arrives as a number rather than as an error. This is not the same as a datum that drifts underneath a measurement; here nothing moved and nothing drifted. Somebody added a constant, and every absolute value in the country changed with it. The figures in the table were computed before this paragraph was written, from the two published coordinates of the tower.

Reliable pipeline

Five habits for any value that is measured from somewhere

Grid references, timestamps counted from an epoch, temperatures in one scale or another, financial figures indexed to a base year, version numbers: all of them are offsets from a choice that somebody made once. Practised on the tower this city is known for.

When a number is a position rather than an amount
Stage	Rule	What it prevents	What it gives you
Name the system	Store the reference system beside every coordinate or timestamp	Two points from different grids subtracted	Values that can be combined safely
Refuse mixed operations	Make the code raise an error when systems differ, rather than converting silently	A 489-kilometre answer with no warning	Failure that is loud instead of quiet
Prefer differences	Build results from subtractions, which survive a change of origin	A conclusion that breaks when the origin moves	Answers that outlive the convention
Check the scale	Ask whether the magnitude is plausible for the thing being measured	Neighbours reported as a country apart	A cheap last line of defence
Record the change	When an origin or epoch moves, write down the date and the offset	Two vintages of data merged years later	A conversion anybody can reverse

For younger learners

Squared paper, a class of children, and a mark labelled zero in the middle. Everyone writes down where their desk is. Then the teacher rubs out the zero and puts it in the corner, and everyone writes their desk down again. All the numbers changed, nobody moved, and the distance between any two desks is exactly what it was.

For teenagers

The two conversion lines in Python, a point class that carries the name of its system, and an arithmetic operator that refuses to work across systems. Then the stretch: given only a list of distances between pairs of points, can you recover the coordinates, and in how many different ways?

For adults

The same audit on something at work that is measured from an epoch: timestamps in seconds since different starting points, index numbers with different base years, versions of a figure rebased after a reorganisation. Adults regularly find two systems in one spreadsheet with nothing marking the boundary.

The population, household, area, school, tower and city-rights figures come from the offices and entries named beside them. The 762 metres, the 489 kilometres and the converted coordinates are this page's arithmetic on the two published positions of the tower, and the illustrative neighbouring point is a worked example rather than a real address.

Learning ladder

From squared paper to an operator that refuses to mix two grids

The starting rung is decided in the free hour, and no part of the decision involves the wijk.

Ages 6 to 10

Move the zero

Children write down where their desks are, watch the origin move, and see what stayed the same.

Coding for Kids Problem Solving and Computational Thinking for Kids

Ages 11 to 13

Coordinates and differences

Learners convert between two numberings and prove that distances do not change.

Maths Through Coding Python and AI for Kids

Ages 14 to 18

Types that carry their system

Teenagers build a point that knows its grid and an operator that refuses to cross grids.

Python for Teens Data Science for Teens

Ages 18 to 67

Epochs and base years at work

Adults audit a file for two reference systems living side by side without a label.

Data Structures & Algorithms Course Python Masterclass

Coding and AI

An AI will compute the distance between two coordinates without asking which grid they are on. Why should a child in Amersfoort learn to ask?

Because the formula is right, the arithmetic is right, and the answer can be out by the length of the country.

Hand a tool two pairs of numbers and ask for the distance and it will subtract, square, add and take the root, correctly. Nothing in those four numbers records which origin each was measured from, so nothing in the calculation can catch the case where they differ. The result comes back as a tidy figure with metres after it, and the only defence is a person who knows that a coordinate is a position relative to a choice, and who checks the scale before believing it.

That is why the learner builds the type that carries its system and the operator that refuses. It is a small piece of code and a large habit: the recognition that many numbers in working life are offsets from a convention, and that conventions get changed by people who will not be there when your file is opened. A twelve-year-old in Vathorst who has moved the zero on squared paper will ask which epoch a timestamp is counted from at twenty-two, and which base year an index uses at thirty-two. Tools will keep getting better at geometry. They will not start knowing what your origin was.

The case for a child in Amersfoort learning to code in 2026 is therefore not about surveying. It is that a great many numbers are positions rather than amounts, that positions mean nothing without a stated reference, and that the cheapest way to learn it permanently is to move the origin of the country's own grid and watch every coordinate change while the tower stands still. The longer argument is in why a child should still learn to code in 2026.

Delivery

Live classes for a city that grew outwards in rings

Vathorst to the old centre is a real ride for a ten-year-old on a winter evening, and Hooglanderveen is further still. The lesson removes the ride.

Nothing to cycle to in the dark

The class runs at the kitchen table in Vathorst, Hoogland or the old centre at one fixed hour every week, in December as readily as in May.

English for the teaching, Dutch for the school words

Instruction is in English. Groep, havo, vwo and profielkeuze stay Dutch, because those are the words on the child's timetable, and nothing is translated in either direction.

What the first hour produces

Work pitched at the level the learner is genuinely at, the name of a course that follows from it, and a weekly slot. No payment details are needed for any of that.

Level, not address, decides the group

Two learners at the same stage work together whether one is in Hooglanderveen and the other in Kattenbroek; two at different stages do not.

Two lessons a week, on the middle calendar

Usually eight lessons a month at a fixed time. Amersfoort takes its school holidays with regio Midden, along with the rest of the province of Utrecht, and holiday weeks go into the plan before the slot is fixed.

Three and a half hours, or four and a half

The Dutch clock shifts twice a year and the Indian one never does, so the gap to the teacher depends on the month. Slots run from the end of the school day into the evening, and both weekend days are open.

The fastest-growing city in this series, and the schools show it

Amersfoort has added 51,375 people since 1995, a rise of 46 percent, and the new districts are full of primary-age children. A class that scales by adding a group at a new hour, rather than by finding a room, is well suited to a city whose demand is growing faster than its buildings.

Fees

The fee, in dollars, in every wijk and both villages

Published here rather than kept for a phone call.

First classUSD 0

A complete lesson with a real task, a level and a named next course.

Group tuitionUSD 100

Per month, normally eight lessons, five to ten learners placed by ability.

Private tuitionUSD 150

Per month, normally eight lessons, one learner with one teacher.

A single international rate applies, quoted in dollars and never in euros, so Hooglanderveen is charged exactly what the old centre is. Money changes hands only after the free lesson has produced a course and a timetable, and it changes hands over WhatsApp. Pausing, changing plan and missing a week are described on the pricing page.

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Free placement class

Tell us the level; the wijk number can wait

The first task might be squared paper with the zero in a new place, a point class in Python that refuses to be subtracted from a different grid, or a spreadsheet at work holding two reference systems with nothing to tell them apart.

FAQ

Amersfoort coding class questions

The city, its tower, its districts, the teaching and the terms.

Why is a coding page talking about the national grid?

Because the reference point of the Rijksdriehoeksmeting is the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwetoren in this city, and its story is the clearest demonstration of a common software error. The tower was the origin of the system, so its coordinates were zero and zero; around 1970 the origin was moved outside the country for practical reasons and the tower acquired the coordinates 155,000 by 463,000 without moving. Mix a point from one numbering with a point from the other and a program will report neighbours as roughly 489 kilometres apart, with no error message. Building the guard against that is the project on this page.

Which parts of the municipality does this page cover?

All of it: the medieval core, Schothorst and Zielhorst, Kattenbroek and Nieuwland, Vathorst, and the villages of Hoogland and Hooglanderveen. The statistics office divides the municipality into 33 wijken and 145 buurten, and none of those lines affects a class.

How old is Amersfoort?

It received city rights on 12 June 1259, and its gates, including the Koppelpoort, were built between 1380 and 1451. The Onze-Lieve-Vrouwetoren is 98 metres and the third-highest church tower in the country.

Is any of this taught in Dutch?

No. Lessons run in English from beginning to end. Dutch school vocabulary is kept as it is, so groep, havo, vwo and profielkeuze are spoken as the child hears them, but there is no Dutch-language version of the course.

What time are classes for a family in Amersfoort?

The teacher is three and a half hours ahead under Dutch summer time and four and a half in winter, since the Indian clock does not change. Workable hours run from the end of the school day to mid-evening, with both weekend days available, and one recurring slot is agreed during the free lesson.

We are in Vathorst or Hooglanderveen, out on the northern edge. Does that matter?

Only in that the journey never has to happen. A learner in Hooglanderveen joins the same group at the same hour and the same fee as one in the old centre, and the ride across the city on a February evening is not part of it.

What is in the free lesson?

The teacher finds the edge of what the learner already manages and sets one piece of work just past it. For a child that might be squared paper and a zero that moves. For a teenager, a point type that refuses to be combined across grids. For an adult, a file with two reference systems in it. It ends with a course, a rung, a weekly time and a price in dollars, and nothing has been charged.

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Amersfoort?

No, and none is claimed near Lange Jan, in Vathorst or anywhere in the Netherlands. Lessons are live online and need a laptop or desktop, working audio, a current browser and a stable connection. The telephone number on this page is Indian and is described as such.

What do Amersfoort coding classes cost?

The first lesson is free. Group tuition is USD 100 a month for two live lessons a week, normally eight in the month, in a group of five to ten. Private tuition is USD 150 a month, one learner with one teacher at the same frequency. Course, format, recurring time and availability are confirmed before payment.

How many learners are in an Amersfoort group?

Between five and ten, matched on level, pace and goal rather than on age, school or district. Private tuition is one learner and one teacher. If no group at the right level is running, the family can take private tuition or wait for the next one to form.

Explore the Netherlands

South-west to the city, east to the Veluwe, and up to the country

Amersfoort is the second city of the province of Utrecht, whose page is about superlatives that need a measure attached; the first is Utrecht itself, and east across the Veluwe is Apeldoorn. Every page in this series descends from the Netherlands coding hub, and for machine learning rather than software the doors are AI and machine learning classes in the Netherlands and the AI and Python Academy.

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The second city of its province, and the fastest grower among them

A young city by household

Schools, and an unusual secondary count

Sixteenth in the country, second in the province

Thirty-three wijken, two villages, and a city that doubled outwards

The medieval core

Vathorst

Nieuwland and Kattenbroek

Schothorst and Zielhorst

Hoogland

Hooglanderveen

Every figure, its office, and the exact wording on the origin

The municipal count

The municipality, described

The tower

The origin, in the source's own words

The gate

What is not claimed

Two neighbours, 489 kilometres apart: build the program that catches a mixed coordinate system

1. Move the origin on paper

2. Find what survives the move

3. Mix the two and watch it fail quietly

Coordinates are relative to a choice; differences are not

Five habits for any value that is measured from somewhere

For younger learners

For teenagers

For adults

From squared paper to an operator that refuses to mix two grids

Move the zero

Coordinates and differences

Types that carry their system

Epochs and base years at work

An AI will compute the distance between two coordinates without asking which grid they are on. Why should a child in Amersfoort learn to ask?

Live classes for a city that grew outwards in rings

Nothing to cycle to in the dark

English for the teaching, Dutch for the school words

What the first hour produces

Level, not address, decides the group

Two lessons a week, on the middle calendar

Three and a half hours, or four and a half

The fee, in dollars, in every wijk and both villages

Six families, in the words they left on Google

Tell us the level; the wijk number can wait

Amersfoort coding class questions

Why is a coding page talking about the national grid?

Which parts of the municipality does this page cover?

How old is Amersfoort?

Is any of this taught in Dutch?

What time are classes for a family in Amersfoort?

We are in Vathorst or Hooglanderveen, out on the northern edge. Does that matter?

What is in the free lesson?

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Amersfoort?

What do Amersfoort coding classes cost?

How many learners are in an Amersfoort group?

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