Coding Classes in County Louth

Course picks for County Louth

Four courses for the Wee County

Pick by what a learner wants to build. Every one begins with a free lesson, taught live, and nobody is asked for card details to try it.

Ages 6 to 10

Coding for Kids

First programs in blocks, where a list of places has to be complete before the game can do anything sensible with it.

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Ages 13 to 17

Python for Teens

Python through the Junior Cycle years, with filtering and matching taught on real tables rather than on made-up rows.

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Ages 14 to 18

Data Science for Teens

A filter that looks right, loses a town of 44,135 people, and reports no error at all.

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College and adult

Python Automation Course

For adults whose work depends on data arriving: checking that a source exists and is complete before building anything on it.

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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 county today

Two big towns and very little countryside

Louth is unusual among Irish counties: most of its people live in towns, and its two largest are within a few hundred of each other in size.

County Louth in Census 2022, Central Statistics Office
Measure	Figure
Population	139,703, up 8% or 10,819 since 2016
Average age	38.2 years, up from 36.4 in 2016
Aged 65 and over	19,898, an increase of 24%
Living in towns of 10,000 or more	79,102 people, 57% of the county
At work	59,140 people aged 15 and over, up 8,823 or 18% since 2016
Third-level qualifications	More than 35,600 people, a rate of 40% against 45% nationally

Dundalk, cleanly counted

Dundalk holds 43,112 people entirely within County Louth, with an average age of 37.2 and 21.4% aged under 15, at 1,986.4 people per square kilometre across 21.7 square kilometres.

Drogheda, counted across a border

Drogheda is published as "Drogheda, Counties Louth and Meath" with 44,135 people, because its built-up area crosses the county line. It is the larger town, and it is not a County Louth figure.

How much of Drogheda is in Louth

By our own arithmetic, not a published figure: the county has 79,102 people in towns of ten thousand or more, Dundalk accounts for 43,112 of them, and no other single-county Louth town reaches that size, so about 35,990 of Drogheda sits on the Louth side and roughly 8,145 in Meath.

The work picture is harder than in most of Leinster. Unemployment stood at 11%, which the statistics office recorded as the joint highest rate in the country, with long-term unemployment at 6%, also joint highest. Employment still grew 18% between censuses, and almost 15,800 people did some work from home, more than 4,400 of them five days a week. For families here, a class that needs no travel and no second car is not a convenience; it is often the difference between doing it and not.

Computer Science in Louth schools

Two schools, both in Dundalk

The first phase of Leaving Certificate Computer Science reached County Louth in two places, and both of them are in the same town.

The two

Bush Post Primary at Riverstown and St Vincent's Secondary School on Seatown Place, both in Dundalk, were the county's first-phase schools when the subject began in September 2018.

Drogheda's position

The county's largest town had no school on that list. We found no current official list of where the subject is taught now, so we say nothing about today, only about how it started.

What we teach

Not the examination subject. Programming, data handling and problem solving in a weekly class, which can run alongside any school timetable.

After school, the county has a technological institute of its own. Dundalk Institute of Technology describes itself as "the leading higher education institute in the North East and cross-border region of Ireland", says more than 600 international students enrol each year, and notes that it is a 25 minute walk from Dundalk's Clarke station with the motorway three minutes away. For a student who wants to stay near home, that is the local route into computing, and the programming groundwork it assumes is exactly what a weekly class builds beforehand.

A county of many first languages

Non-Irish citizens make up 11% of the county. The largest groups are Lithuanian at 1,817, Polish at 1,734, UK at 1,688 and Latvian at 1,094, and 4,296 people recorded a Black or Black Irish African background, the largest such count of the counties we have written about. Dual citizenship rose to 4,271, and the most common combination here is Irish and Nigerian, which is unusual nationally.

Signature project

The filter that loses Drogheda

Every Irish town in the statistics office's tables is labelled with the county it sits in. Almost every one ends with a single county name. Two words break that pattern, and a one-line filter written in good faith deletes the results.

What we measured in the published table, read 16 September 2026
Step	Result
Town labels in the table, nationally	868
Labels ending in the words Co Louth	20
Labels containing the word Louth at all	21
The one that a suffix filter misses	Drogheda, Counties Louth and Meath
People in that missing row	44,135, the county's largest town
Error raised by the filter	None

Why it happens

Towns that straddle a county boundary are labelled with both counties, so their names end differently from every other town in the county. The pattern a learner reasonably assumes does not hold for exactly the rows that matter most.

What it costs

A county roll-up built this way loses 44,135 people, which is more than the entire population of Dundalk. The total still looks plausible, which is what makes it dangerous.

The fix, and the habit

Match on the county appearing anywhere in the label, then check the count of matched rows against what you expected, and look at the rows you excluded before you throw them away.

The other half of the lesson: a dataset that is not there

Before this exercise, students check the county's own open data. The Co. Louth Road Schedule is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, with a description promising road centre lines and roads-in-charge records for the whole county. Its single attached resource is a web link to the council's homepage. There is no file behind it. A student who plans a term project around that title discovers this in week three; a student who checks the resource list discovers it in thirty seconds. Checking first is the entire lesson, and it applies to every promising dataset title anyone ever sends you.

We say this with no criticism of the council intended. Publishing open data is work, and registering something that later moves or breaks is ordinary. The point for a learner is simply that a title is not a file, and only opening it proves anything.

Before you write the filter

Five checks for matching and filtering

Learned on a table of Irish towns, and used afterwards on customer lists, product codes, school rolls and anything else where names are the key.

Filters that look right and are not
Check	What you do	What it catches
Count before and after	Compare how many rows matched with how many you expected	A filter that quietly drops rows
Look at what you excluded	Print the rows the filter rejected, not only the ones it kept	The one row that mattered
Prefer contains to ends with	Match on the value appearing anywhere, then tighten deliberately	Labels with an unexpected suffix
Find the shared entities	Ask which rows belong to two categories at once	Anything that straddles a boundary
Check the total against a known one	Compare your roll-up against a published total	A plausible number that is wrong

Younger learners

A sorting game where one item belongs in two boxes, and the program has to decide what to do about it.

Teenagers

The real table in Python: write the naive filter, measure what it loses, fix it, and check the fixed total against the published one.

Adults

The same discipline on work data, where the rows that belong to two categories are usually the biggest customers.

We are not connected with Louth County Council, Dundalk Institute of Technology or either school named above, and nothing here suggests otherwise. Census figures are the Central Statistics Office's for 2022. The filter measurements are ours, run against the published table, and the Drogheda split is our arithmetic rather than a published figure, which is why it is labelled that way everywhere it appears.

Living in the county

Two routing keys, one motorway and a long commute

Louth sits between two cities, and its daily rhythm shows it.

A91 and A92

Louth County Council gives its address as County Hall, Millennium Centre, Dundalk, A91 KFW6, while Drogheda Library is at Stockwell Lane, A92 PY20. The two halves of the county have their own routing keys.

Driving, mostly

31,863 people drove to work in 2022, the average journey took 28.9 minutes, up from 27.7 in 2016, and 7,418 people travelled for an hour or more each way.

Five electoral areas

Dundalk South has 38,195 people, Drogheda Urban 28,537, Ardee 27,034, Dundalk and Carlingford 26,092 and Drogheda Rural 19,845.

The Irish language here

The county recorded 44,078 Irish speakers, 35.2% of everyone aged three and over, which the statistics office noted was the second lowest rate in the country after Dublin City. Our classes are taught in English, and programming keywords are English whatever a learner's school language is, so this changes nothing about how a child gets on.

Learning ladder

From sorting things to filters you can trust

Bands are indicative only. The free lesson decides where a learner begins.

Ages 6 to 10

Sorting and matching

Programs that put things in categories, and what to do when something belongs in two.

Coding for Kids Scratch Coding for Kids

Ages 11 to 13

Lists and lookups

Searching real tables, and checking that a search found everything it should have.

Python and AI for Kids Maths Through Coding

Ages 14 to 18

Filters and totals

Writing filters, measuring what they exclude, and reconciling a roll-up with a published total.

Data Science for Teens Python for Teens

Ages 18 to 67

Sources that hold up

Verifying that a data source exists and is complete before any work is planned around it.

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

Coding and AI

An assistant will write this filter instantly. Why should a Dundalk teenager check what it dropped?

Because the wrong answer here is a number that looks entirely reasonable.

Ask an AI tool to total the population of Louth's towns and it will write a filter, probably matching labels that end with the county name, and return a figure. The figure will be missing Drogheda, because Drogheda is labelled with two counties, and nothing about the result will look wrong: no error, no warning, just a total that is 44,135 people short. Tools are good at writing filters and poor at knowing which rows a filter should have caught.

The defence is a habit rather than a technique: always ask what a filter excluded, and always reconcile a total against something published. A learner who has lost Drogheda once will do both automatically, on any dataset, for the rest of their working life.

So the reason for a Louth child to learn to code in 2026 is not that they will be asked to write filters at work, though they may be. It is that they will be asked to trust numbers other people produced, and this is how you tell which ones deserve it. The longer argument is in why a child should still learn to code in 2026.

Delivery

Dundalk, Drogheda, Ardee and the peninsula

The county is compact by Irish standards, and still splits into two towns that face different ways: one towards Belfast, one towards Dublin.

One class, both ends

A learner in Carlingford and one in Termonfeckin sit in the same group, which no room in either town could manage on a Tuesday evening.

Stages named the Irish way

First Year, the Junior Cycle, Transition Year and sixth year are used as they are used in school here, so parents never have to translate.

A free lesson that teaches

Real work on a real task, with a recommendation on level, course and hour afterwards, and no card details asked for at any point.

Grouped by what they can do

Five to ten learners at one level, drawn from Louth and other countries, so every level has a group at a workable hour.

Around a commuting household

Two lessons a week, roughly eight a month, at a fixed time, with pauses for mid-terms, exams and holidays agreed in advance.

Teachers on Indian time

Their clock does not shift, so they sit four and a half hours ahead of Ireland in summer and five and a half in winter; Louth evenings fall comfortably inside their working day.

Why the commute matters here

With 7,418 people already travelling an hour or more each way to work, an evening class that requires another journey is a hard sell in this county. Starting at the kitchen table, on the same evening every week, is what makes it stick.

Fees

What classes cost in County Louth

Three figures, and no additions later.

First classUSD 0

One full lesson at no cost, ending with an honest placement and a recommended course.

Group tuitionUSD 100

A month of teaching, generally eight lessons, with five to ten learners of similar ability.

Private tuitionUSD 150

The same month of about eight lessons, with a teacher working with one learner only.

Fees are in US dollars on the single rate charged outside India, so Dundalk pays what Ardee pays and there is no euro list. Nothing is charged until the free lesson has settled a course and a weekly hour. Pauses, missed lessons and changes of format are set out on the pricing page.

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Reviews

Six Google reviews, as our families wrote them

Rated 4.9 across 547 Google reviews. These are real reviews, reproduced as written.

★★★★★

"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."

Ria Mukherjee

Parent

★★★★★

"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."

Samriddha Mondal

Student

★★★★★

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

Vansh Agarwal

Student

★★★★★

"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."

Sonam Oswal

Parent of Dhairya

★★★★★

"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."

Sonu Goyal

Parent

★★★★★

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

Ritu Kedia

Parent

Free placement class

Tell us about the learner

The opening task fits the person: a sorting game for a younger child, a first script that reads a table, or the filter puzzle that loses Drogheda for a teenager.

FAQ

County Louth coding class questions

The county, its numbers and how the classes work.

How many people live in County Louth?

Census 2022 counted 139,703, up 8% since 2016, with 57% of them living in towns of ten thousand people or more.

Is Drogheda or Dundalk the bigger town?

Drogheda, at 44,135, but that figure covers a built-up area crossing into County Meath. Dundalk's 43,112 sits entirely in Louth. By our own arithmetic, around 35,990 of Drogheda is on the Louth side.

Which Louth schools first offered Leaving Certificate Computer Science?

Bush Post Primary and St Vincent's Secondary School, both in Dundalk, were the county's two schools on the January 2018 first-phase list.

What is the Louth data project?

Students write the obvious filter for Louth's towns, discover it returns 20 of 21 rows and silently loses Drogheda, then fix it and reconcile the total against a published one.

Why not use the county road dataset?

Because there is no file behind it. The registered dataset's only resource is a link to the council's homepage, which is itself a useful thing for a learner to discover early.

Does the county have a third-level option?

Dundalk Institute of Technology is in the county and describes itself as the leading higher education institute in the North East and cross-border region of Ireland. We have no connection with it.

What hours do classes run?

Afternoons, evenings and weekend mornings. Our teachers are four and a half hours ahead of Irish time in summer and five and a half in winter, and the weekly hour is set in the free lesson.

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Louth?

No, and we never imply one. Teaching is live online only, with no premises in Ireland. A learner needs a laptop or desktop, working sound and a steady connection, and the number on this page is an Indian one.

What do County Louth coding classes cost?

The first lesson is free. Continuing costs USD 100 a month for a group place, which covers two live lessons a week and about eight a month with five to ten learners, or USD 150 a month taught privately on the same schedule. Everything is agreed before payment.

How many learners are in a group?

Five to ten, matched on ability, pace and goal rather than age or address. Where nothing suitable runs at a workable hour, we offer one-to-one lessons instead.

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Four courses for the Wee County

Coding for Kids

Python for Teens

Data Science for Teens

Python Automation Course

Python, AI, vibe coding and agentic coding

Vibe Coding for Teens

Python Automation Course

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Codex & Claude Code

Two big towns and very little countryside

Dundalk, cleanly counted

Drogheda, counted across a border

How much of Drogheda is in Louth

Two schools, both in Dundalk

The two

Drogheda's position

What we teach

The filter that loses Drogheda

Why it happens

What it costs

The fix, and the habit

The other half of the lesson: a dataset that is not there

Five checks for matching and filtering

Younger learners

Teenagers

Adults

Two routing keys, one motorway and a long commute

A91 and A92

Driving, mostly

Five electoral areas

From sorting things to filters you can trust

Sorting and matching

Lists and lookups

Filters and totals

Sources that hold up

An assistant will write this filter instantly. Why should a Dundalk teenager check what it dropped?

Dundalk, Drogheda, Ardee and the peninsula

One class, both ends

Stages named the Irish way

A free lesson that teaches

Grouped by what they can do

Around a commuting household

Teachers on Indian time

What classes cost in County Louth

Six Google reviews, as our families wrote them

Tell us about the learner

County Louth coding class questions

How many people live in County Louth?

Is Drogheda or Dundalk the bigger town?

Which Louth schools first offered Leaving Certificate Computer Science?

What is the Louth data project?

Why not use the county road dataset?

Does the county have a third-level option?

What hours do classes run?

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Louth?

What do County Louth coding classes cost?

How many learners are in a group?

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