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Bishopstown learners are taught live on video by a teacher, in a small group at one level or on their own, usually two lessons a week, and anyone from six to sixty-seven can enrol. No travel is needed. The first lesson costs nothing; each month after that is USD 100 in a group or USD 150 for one-to-one lessons.

Cork City Council publishes its ten library branches as open data, with a column for each weekday's opening hours. How many hours a week is Bishopstown Library open? The file holds the answer as text, and across the branches the same kind of fact is written in 11 different formats, from "10.00 a.m. - 5.30 p.m" to "9:30am-5:30pm" to "10am - 6pm". Bishopstown's own entries add footnotes inside the times. Parse them carefully and the regular week comes to 45 hours; read the library's web page and members of its self-service scheme can use the building 98 hours a week. This page teaches a learner to turn text into numbers without losing the parts that do not fit.

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Facts last verified 20 September 2026. Teaching is online; no Bishopstown branch is claimed.

Courses for Bishopstown

Four first courses for Bishopstown

Let the age band suggest where to start; the free first lesson is when the teacher confirms the level or recommends another course.

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Ages 6 to 10

Coding for Kids

Blocks and a timetable game: reading times from a board and adding up how long something stays open.

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Ages 10 to 13

Python and AI for Kids

Python strings: finding numbers inside text and turning 5.30 p.m. into 17.5 hours.

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Ages 13 to 18

Python for Teens

Patterns in Python for messy real text: times, ranges, split sessions and the exceptions that do not fit.

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College and adult

Data Analysis Course

For adults who clean spreadsheets full of free text and need numbers they can defend.

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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.

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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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Signature project

How long is the library open? Turning written hours into numbers

The data is Cork City Council's open file of its library branches, with one text field per weekday from Monday to Saturday. The program reads every field, recognises the time ranges inside it, and adds them up.

Bishopstown Library: one question, several honest answers
Which hoursHours a weekSource
Regular hours in the council file45Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 17:30
Weeks from September to June47.5Later closing at 8:00 p.m. on Thursdays
A first week of the month in summer44.5Opening at 10.30 on the first Wednesday
Self-service access for registered members98Library page: 8.00 am to 10.00 pm, seven days

Eleven ways to write a time

Across the 50 day-entries in the file where a branch is open, the hours appear in 11 different formats: dots or colons, a.m. with or without full stops, hyphens, en dashes or the word to, and sometimes a stray full stop at the end. A pattern that expects one format silently skips the rest.

Split days

Several branches close for lunch, so one day holds two ranges, such as a morning session and an afternoon one separated by a comma. The program has to find every range in a field and add them, not just the first.

Footnotes inside the data

Bishopstown's Wednesday field adds that it opens at 10.30 a.m. on the first Wednesday of each month, and its Thursday field adds later closing at 8:00 p.m. from September to June. Those are not ranges to add; they are exceptions to keep.

Parse what you can, keep what you cannot

Free text almost never parses completely. A good program pulls out every value it can recognise, sets aside everything it cannot, and reports both, rather than guessing or dropping the leftovers quietly. Before any of that, it needs a definition: open to whom, staffed or self-service, in which season. Bishopstown's honest answer runs from 44.5 to 98 hours a week, depending on the question.

The learner's program reads the council's CSV and checks its columns first, which shows there is no Sunday field at all, so Sunday is unknown in this file rather than closed. For each weekday it looks for a time range with a pattern that accepts every format found: an hour, optional minutes after a dot or colon, an optional a.m. or p.m. in any spelling, a hyphen, en dash or the word to, and the same again. It converts each end to decimal hours, adds the ranges for the day, and whatever text is left over goes into a notes list. Across the ten branches the regular weeks come out between 14 and 45 hours, with Bishopstown level with the central library at 45. Finally the program compares the council file with the library's own page, which describes staffed hours and a separate self-service scheme, and does not mention the later Thursday closing.

Two official sources

The council's file was last updated in May 2025; the library's page is live. They agree on 10.00 to 5.30 from Monday to Saturday and differ on the details. When two official sources disagree, say which one each number came from.

What open means

Staffed hours tell you when to find a librarian. Self-service hours tell a registered member when the doors open. A total without a definition answers neither question well.

Holidays

The library page adds that the branch is closed on public holidays and bank holiday weekends, while registered self-service members can still visit. No weekly total captures that on its own.

Bishopstown, named

Bishopstown by its library and its school

Each fact is taken from the organisation it describes.

Named places in Bishopstown
PlaceWhat its own source says
Bishopstown LibraryWilton, Cork, T12 RR84
Library bus routes208, 214 and 219
Self-service hours8.00 am to 10.00 pm, Monday to Sunday
Bishopstown Community SchoolWestgate Road, Bishopstown, Cork

Inside the library

The library lists a 3D printer, community rooms, self-service kiosks, charging stations, a hearing loop and wheelchair access, and the council file adds a PC with voice recognition software and some PCs with large keyboards and trackball mice.

Self-service

Its web page says My Open Library access is available to registered members from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm every day, and that those members can continue to visit on public holidays and bank holiday weekends.

The school

Bishopstown Community School gives its address as Westgate Road, and its website carries sections on its Deaf Facility, Irish Sign Language and adult education.

What this page does not claim

No population is given for Bishopstown, because the page prints only what named bodies publish about the place. The hours are those published by Cork City Council and the library at the dates shown, and they change; check with the library before a visit.

Learning here

A week for a learner in Bishopstown

Usually two lessons a week, each one taught live by the teacher throughout.

Children

The youngest learners start with block code and time-telling games that add up how long things last.

Teenagers

Teenage learners go on to Python, web building, AI projects and genuine council files, where text must become numbers before the maths begins.

Adults

Adults can start from scratch; the first lesson finds the course.

Branch hours are Cork City Council's open data and the Bishopstown Library page; the parsing, weekly totals and format counts are our own work from 20 September 2026. School details come from the school's own website.

Learning ladder

From reading a clock to parsing text

The bands are a guide; lesson one decides the level.

Ages 6 to 10

How long is it open?

Block-coded games that read a start and an end time and count the hours between.

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Ages 11 to 13

Numbers in words

Python that finds numbers hidden in sentences and converts them.

Python and AI for KidsMaths Through Coding
Ages 14 to 18

Patterns and leftovers

Regular expressions on real council text, with exceptions kept rather than dropped.

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Ages 18 to 67

Cleaning at work

Turning free-text fields in business files into numbers with an audit trail.

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Coding and AI

Ask an assistant how many hours the library opens

It will give one number. The question needs more than one.

Paste the Bishopstown row into an AI assistant and ask for its weekly opening hours, and it will probably answer 45, which is the regular staffed figure. It may skip the September to June Thursdays, the first Wednesday of the month and the self-service scheme altogether, because a single number is what the question seemed to want.

The learner who has built this project asks which hours are meant, asks the assistant to list anything in the field it could not turn into a number, and checks the file against the library's own page. The assistant does the tedious parsing; the learner decides what the answer should mean.

Text that looks like data usually hides a few exceptions. Code that keeps them is code you can trust. The longer argument is in coding as a skill that outlasts any single AI tool.

Delivery

How lessons run for Bishopstown

Quickly.

Taught in real time

Every lesson is live, with the teacher checking each learner's code and helping as they go.

Level first

Groups of five to ten learners at the same level, from Bishopstown, around Ireland or abroad.

Regular slots

Two fixed days each week, around eight lessons a month.

Term planning

Holidays, mid-terms and exam periods are built into the course plan.

At home

A laptop or desktop, a microphone, headphones or speakers, and a connection strong enough for video.

Private teaching

Lessons for a single learner, for anyone moving faster than the groups, needing a slower pace, or only free outside group times.

Nothing to visit

We have no premises in Bishopstown, in Cork or anywhere in Ireland. Lessons are live on video and identical from any home.

Fees

Fees for Bishopstown

Straight to it.

First classUSD 0

A free opening lesson with a level check.

Group tuitionUSD 100

A month in a group of five to ten at one level, around eight live lessons.

Private tuitionUSD 150

A month of one-to-one lessons at the same frequency.

Families outside India all pay the same fee in US dollars, a month at a time. Booking the free lesson is not an agreement to continue; payment begins with the course itself, and our pricing page answers the usual questions on holiday weeks, missed sessions and moving from a group to private lessons or back.

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Reviews

What families wrote on Google, unchanged

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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"One of the most wonderful education centres out there. Education is not limited to school syllabus but focuses on skill development."

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"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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"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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★★★★★

"I highly recommend this computer coding class! The teachers are incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about coding."

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FAQ

Bishopstown coding class questions

What Bishopstown families ask most.

Is there a Modern Age Coders centre in Bishopstown?

No. We teach live on video and have no premises in Ireland. A learner needs a computer, a microphone and sound, and a reliable connection. The phone number on the page is Indian.

What is the library hours project?

The learner reads Cork City Council's file of library branches, where opening hours are written as text in 11 different formats, and turns them into weekly totals: 45 regular hours for Bishopstown, 47.5 in weeks with the later Thursday, and 98 hours of self-service access for registered members.

Are these the library's current hours?

They are the hours in the council's file and on the library's page when we read them, which differ in detail. Hours change, so check with the library before going.

Why is there no population figure for Bishopstown?

The page prints only what named organisations publish about Bishopstown itself, here Cork City Council, the library and the community school, and none of them gives a head count.

What times are lessons?

Weekdays after school through the evening, and weekend daytimes. We schedule in Irish time. Our teachers are in India, which is four and a half hours ahead of Bishopstown in the Irish summer and five and a half in winter, so the times we offer are ones that work in both countries.

Are lessons open to adults?

Yes, up to sixty-seven and at any starting level. Once the free lesson is over, a grown-up learner decides whether a group at their level or teaching on their own suits them better.

Will my child be grouped with other Bishopstown children?

Sometimes, though we build groups around ability rather than area, so the other learners could be in another county or another country.

What do coding classes in Bishopstown cost?

The first lesson is free. After that a group place costs USD 100 a month for about eight live lessons, two a week, with five to ten learners, and one-to-one lessons on the same schedule cost USD 150 a month. Terms are agreed before any payment.

How many learners are in a group?

Five to ten, matched by level, pace and goals rather than age or address. If no group runs at a workable time, lessons are one to one.

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Around Bishopstown

East across the city, Douglas has a project on tide readings, and west along the river Ballincollig one on water levels. The Cork page covers the city, and the Ireland hub lists everywhere else.

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