Coding Classes in County Cavan

Course picks for County Cavan

Starting points for a Cavan learner

Choose by age and appetite; the first lesson confirms the choice. It is taught by the teacher who would take the course, and nobody asks for card details to book it.

Ages 6 to 10

Scratch Coding for Kids

Scratch projects where two lists must stay lined up, and a shuffle in one breaks everything.

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Ages 13 to 17

Python for Teens

Python built up steadily through the Junior Cycle, into Transition Year work with real tables.

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Ages 14 to 18

Data Science for Teens

Joining two tables by a key instead of by position, and proving the join worked.

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College and adult

Data and AI Analytics for Non-Programmers (Excel, Sheets, Power BI)

For adults who copy columns between spreadsheets and need to know the rows still match.

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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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Signature project

Cavan is third on the list

Cavan County Council publishes no open datasets, so the project uses the national county population table and two things about it that fool careful people.

The first six counties as the table stores them, and as an alphabetical list would
Position	Stored order	Alphabetical order
1	Cork City Council	Carlow County Council
2	Clare County Council	Cavan County Council
3	Cavan County Council	Clare County Council
4	Cork County Council	Cork City Council
5	Carlow County Council	Cork County Council
6	Dublin City Council	Donegal County Council

What goes wrong

Pair the two columns by row number and not one county in those six lines gets its own figure. The script runs, the chart draws and every bar carries a real county name above a real population belonging to somewhere else.

How to catch it

Check one pair you already know. Cavan's population is 81,704. If the row labelled Cavan says anything else, the join is broken, and it takes ten seconds to find out.

How to prevent it

Never match by position. Match by the code or name stored alongside each value, which the table provides for exactly this reason.

The second trap: updated is not the same as current

The table's own metadata gives an update date of 29 June 2023. The figures inside it describe the population on 3 April 2022, census night, fourteen months before. Anyone reading that timestamp as the date the numbers describe will think the data is more recent than it is. Nearly every published dataset has at least two dates attached to it, when the thing was measured and when the file was last touched, and they are routinely confused in reports, dashboards and news stories. A learner who asks which date a figure is actually as of has avoided an error most adults make without noticing.

The written output is two short paragraphs. One explains why joining by position is unsafe and shows the one-pair check that exposes it. The other states, for every figure used in the project, the date it describes rather than the date the file changed. That second habit is worth a great deal more than it looks, because it is the difference between reporting how things were and implying how things are.

The county today

A young county of middle-sized towns

Taken from the statistics office's Cavan releases for Census 2022.

Cavan on census night 2022
What was counted	Result
Residents	81,704, up 5,528 or 7% since 2016
Female and male	40,644 and 41,060, or 101 males per 100 females
Average age	38.5, up from 37.2 and still below the national 38.8
Aged 15 and under	17,752, with 6,104 of them in childcare
Non-Irish citizens	12% of the county, led by Polish at 1,719, UK at 1,564 and Lithuanian at 1,398
Holding dual Irish citizenship	2,335, up from 1,297

Cavan town

11,741 people over 12.4 square kilometres, an average age of 35.8 and 24.3% under 15, a young town inside a young county.

The ring of towns

Virginia 3,211, Bailieborough 2,974, Kingscourt 2,955, Ballyjamesduff 2,917, Cootehill 1,856, Mullagh 1,651 and Belturbet 1,610, which squeezes its population into a single square kilometre.

Youngest and oldest

Among places of at least 500 people, Mullagh has the youngest average age at 34.1 and Cootehill the oldest at 40.4.

Irish is spoken by 26,591 of the 78,633 people aged three and over, 35.9%, up slightly on 2016, and Cavan has no Gaeltacht area. We teach in English and programming keywords are English in every language, so nothing on that front affects a learner here. The county's religious make-up has also shifted quickly: the Catholic share fell from 82% to 74% between the two censuses and the number stating no religion rose by 77% to almost 6,900.

Schools and travel

Two first-wave schools and a thirty minute commute

Cavan is one of the counties that had computer science in the Leaving Certificate from the very start.

Breifne College

Published on the January 2018 list at Cootehill Road, Cavan. The road is named for Cootehill but the school is in Cavan town, which is worth knowing before anybody files it under the wrong place.

St Aidan's Comprehensive

In Cootehill itself, and the county's second school among the forty that began the subject in September 2018 and sat the first exam in 2020.

Getting to school

The statistics office reports that Cootehill had the second highest rate in the country of primary pupils travelling to school by public transport, at 31%.

How Cavan gets to work
Mode or measure	People or time
Travelling to work	32,111
By car	21,127
On foot	2,075, up from 1,834
By bicycle	169, with Cavan and Donegal commuters the least likely in the country to cycle, at 0.5%
Average journey	30.7 minutes, up from 28.5 in 2016
Working from home at least one day a week	7,898 people, 22% of the workforce against 32% nationally

Where the first-wave schools leave everyone else

Two schools with the subject from the start is a real advantage for pupils at those two schools. For a teenager in Kingscourt, Belturbet or Virginia it changes very little, and with the average commute already past half an hour, a weekly evening trip into Cavan town for a class is a hard sell. Third level attainment here is 38% against 45% nationally, and the average age of finishing full time education, 19.8, is a year below the national figure, so the case for an accessible way to go further is strong.

Two Cavan addresses

One county, two routing keys

Both read on the organisation's own website.

Cavan County Museum

Virginia Road, Ballyjamesduff, eircode A82 YP70. It holds the Killycluggin Stone and a First World War trench that the museum describes as the largest outdoor replica trench open to the public in Ireland and the UK.

Cavan County Council

Cavan Courthouse, Farnham Street, Abbeyland, Cavan, eircode H12 R6V2, a different routing key from the museum in the same county.

The council's data

Its publisher page on the national portal lists no datasets at all, which is why the project above works from national statistics instead.

This page covers the Republic of Ireland only. Cavan borders Northern Ireland, but the statistics office's Cavan employment and commuting release says nothing about travel across the border, so we publish no figure for it and use no Northern Ireland statistic anywhere. Nor are we connected with Cavan County Council, the museum or either school. Population and travel figures are the statistics office's, and the stored order and update date described in the project were read directly from its published table.

Learning ladder

From lining up lists to joining tables

The age bands are guidance; the first lesson sets the real level.

Ages 6 to 10

Keeping lists in step

Programs where names and scores live in two lists and must never slip out of line.

Scratch Coding for Kids Coding for Kids

Ages 11 to 13

Checking a known answer

Testing any result against one fact you already know before believing the rest.

Python and AI for Kids Maths Through Coding

Ages 14 to 18

Joins by key

Merging real tables safely and recording the date each figure describes.

Data Science for Teens Python for Teens

Ages 18 to 67

Spreadsheets that stay honest

Copying, merging and refreshing data at work without silently mismatching rows.

Data and AI Analytics for Non-Programmers (Excel, Sheets, Power BI)Python Automation Course

Coding and AI

Generated code joins tables the way you describe them

Say "line these up" and that is precisely what you will get.

Ask for two lists to be combined and a tool will often pair them by position, because that is the literal meaning of the request and it works on every tidy example it has seen. On the county table it produces a clean, plausible, entirely wrong result, and nothing in the output hints at it, since every name and every number is individually genuine.

The protection is not a better prompt. It is the ten-second habit of checking one pair you already know. Cavan is 81,704; if the row labelled Cavan says otherwise, stop. People who have been caught once by a positional join do that forever, and they are the people you want checking anything important.

That is why the case for learning to program properly has, if anything, grown: somebody still has to know what a correct answer looks like. The longer argument is in the case for learning to code in 2026.

Delivery

How lessons reach Kingscourt, Belturbet and Virginia

The practical shape of the teaching.

Live with a real teacher

Every lesson is taught as it happens, with questions both ways, rather than watched as a video.

Grouped by level

Five to ten learners at one ability level, gathered from Cavan and other countries, so nobody is waiting for the room to catch up.

Weekly and fixed

Two lessons most weeks, about eight a month, at a slot agreed once and kept.

Matched to Irish schooling

Junior Cycle through Leaving Certificate, with exam seasons and holidays planned around rather than ignored.

At the kitchen table

A computer, sound that works and a connection able to carry video. The first lesson doubles as a test of all three.

Private if it suits better

Where no group at the right level meets at a workable time, the same course is taught one to one.

For the lake country and the border villages

Much of Cavan lives outside its towns, among lakes and small roads where a thirty minute drive is normal and a bus to an evening class is not. Gathering learners at the right level into one online group, at an hour fixed once for the whole term, reaches families that no class in a hall in Cavan town could.

Fees

Cavan class fees

Three figures, with nothing further to find.

First classUSD 0

A first lesson in full at no charge, which ends with a level and a recommendation.

Group tuitionUSD 100

Group lessons for a month, around eight of them, with five to ten learners at one level.

Private tuitionUSD 150

One to one lessons for a month on the same schedule.

Monthly billing is in US dollars at the single rate we set for families outside India, so Cootehill and Cavan town pay the same and there is no euro price to compare it with. No payment is taken before a course and a time are agreed in that first lesson, and the pricing page spells out pauses, missed lessons and changing between group and private.

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Reviews

Six Google reviews from families we teach, copied exactly

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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Student

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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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Student

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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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Free placement class

Arrange the first lesson

Let us know the learner's age and interests. The opening hour is planned around them, from a Scratch game about keeping two lists in step to the county table that pairs every name with the wrong number.

FAQ

County Cavan coding class questions

What Cavan families tend to ask first.

How many people live in County Cavan?

The 2022 census counted 81,704, up 5,528 or 7% since 2016, with an average age of 38.5, slightly younger than the country as a whole.

Which Cavan schools were among the first to teach Leaving Certificate Computer Science?

Two of the first forty: Breifne College on Cootehill Road in Cavan town, and St Aidan's Comprehensive School in Cootehill.

What is the Cavan data project?

Learners discover that the national county table stores Cavan third, not in alphabetical order, so pairing values by position mislabels the counties, and that its update date is fourteen months later than the census night its figures describe.

How big is Cavan town?

It held 11,741 people in 2022, with an average age of 35.8 and nearly a quarter of residents under 15.

Does this page include Northern Ireland?

No. Everything here is from Republic of Ireland sources, and the statistics office's Cavan commuting release contains no cross-border figure, so none is given.

Do you teach outside Cavan town?

Yes. Virginia, Bailieborough, Kingscourt, Ballyjamesduff, Cootehill and Belturbet all get exactly the same teacher at exactly the same hour.

What hours are lessons taught?

After school, evenings and weekend mornings. Our teaching staff are in India, which is four and a half hours ahead of Ireland in summer and five and a half in winter; the slot is fixed in the first lesson.

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in County Cavan?

No, and we never imply one. Teaching is live over video only, with no premises in Ireland. A learner needs a laptop or desktop, working sound and a steady connection, and the number shown here belongs to India.

What do County Cavan coding classes cost?

The first lesson is free. After that a shared place costs USD 100 a month and brings two live lessons a week, about eight monthly, with five to ten learners; one to one on the same schedule is USD 150 a month. Everything is agreed before payment.

How many learners are in a group?

Five to ten, grouped by ability, pace and goal rather than age or address. Where nothing suitable meets at a workable hour, we teach one to one instead.

Explore Ireland

Around Cavan

South of the county sit Meath and Westmeath, west lie Leitrim and Longford, and each has its own page. There is a plain comparison of online coding schools here, and every Irish page is gathered on the Ireland hub.

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Starting points for a Cavan learner

Scratch Coding for Kids

Python for Teens

Data Science for Teens

Data and AI Analytics for Non-Programmers (Excel, Sheets, Power BI)

Python, AI, vibe coding and agentic coding

Vibe Coding for Teens

Python Automation Course

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Codex & Claude Code

Cavan is third on the list

What goes wrong

How to catch it

How to prevent it

The second trap: updated is not the same as current

A young county of middle-sized towns

Cavan town

The ring of towns

Youngest and oldest

Two first-wave schools and a thirty minute commute

Breifne College

St Aidan's Comprehensive

Getting to school

One county, two routing keys

Cavan County Museum

Cavan County Council

The council's data

From lining up lists to joining tables

Keeping lists in step

Checking a known answer

Joins by key

Spreadsheets that stay honest

Generated code joins tables the way you describe them

How lessons reach Kingscourt, Belturbet and Virginia

Live with a real teacher

Grouped by level

Weekly and fixed

Matched to Irish schooling

At the kitchen table

Private if it suits better

Cavan class fees

Six Google reviews from families we teach, copied exactly

Arrange the first lesson

County Cavan coding class questions

How many people live in County Cavan?

Which Cavan schools were among the first to teach Leaving Certificate Computer Science?

What is the Cavan data project?

How big is Cavan town?

Does this page include Northern Ireland?

Do you teach outside Cavan town?

What hours are lessons taught?

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in County Cavan?

What do County Cavan coding classes cost?

How many learners are in a group?

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