Coding Classes in County Roscommon

Course picks for County Roscommon

Where a Roscommon learner begins

Pick by age and interest. The trial lesson is given by the teacher who would take the course, and you are never asked for card details to book it.

Ages 6 to 10

Scratch Coding for Kids

Scratch projects where an empty box, a zero and the word none all have to be handled differently.

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Ages 10 to 13

Python and AI for Kids

Python first steps, and an early lesson in checking what a program has actually read in.

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Ages 14 to 18

Data Science for Teens

A real council file of 559 buildings, cleaned properly and then mapped.

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College and adult

Python Automation Course

For adults whose reports are built on spreadsheets typed by many different people.

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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

The second biggest town is called na

Roscommon County Council's Record of Protected Structures, 559 buildings, examined before any chart is drawn.

How the TOWN column says "no town", counted row by row
Written as	Rows	Seen as missing by default?
na	93	No, read as a town name
n/a	3	Yes
A blank cell	3	Yes
Na	2	No, read as a town name
NA	1	Yes
All five together	102 of 559, or 18.2%	Only 7 caught automatically

What the naive count says

Boyle 109, na 93, Roscommon 91, then Castlerea 33 and Strokestown 25. A chart made from that would put a non-existent town in second place, above the county town itself.

The line count that lies too

The downloaded file has 679 lines, one of them the header, but only 559 records. Long descriptions of the buildings contain line breaks inside quotation marks, so counting lines instead of reading the format overstates the rows by 119.

A town spelled two ways

Ballaghaderreen appears correctly once and as Ballaghdereen eighteen times. Group by that column and one town becomes two, with nearly all of its buildings under the misspelling.

Why missing values are a design decision, not an accident

Every system that collects information has to decide how to write down that something is not known. Most never decide, so each person entering data improvises, and the file ends up with a blank here, a dash there, na, n/a, unknown and zero all meaning the same thing. Software then has to guess which of those are absence and which are data, and its guesses are conservative by design. The fix is never cleverness afterwards. It is a list, written before any analysis, of every way this particular file says nothing, which is exactly what the table above is.

The deliverable is a short cleaning note and one honest chart. The note lists the five spellings of missing, the line-versus-record gap and the split town name. The chart shows protected structures by town with those fixed and with the unknown-town rows reported as their own labelled bar rather than quietly dropped, because 102 buildings without a recorded town is a fact about the register worth showing. The file is published under a Creative Commons Attribution licence and was last edited in December 2022, and the page says so.

The county today

Roscommon by the numbers

Everything below is quoted from the statistics office's Roscommon releases.

Roscommon, April 2022
Item	Census 2022
Residents	70,259, up 5,715 or 9% since 2016, against 8% for the State
Women and men	35,089 and 35,170, or 100 males for every 100 females
Average age	40.8, up from 39.7
Born outside the State	12,948 people, 19%, up from 16% in 2016
Dual Irish citizens	2,043, up from 1,152
Third level qualifications	More than 19,000 people, a rate of 40% against 45% nationally

Roscommon town

6,555 people across 7.0 square kilometres, with an average age of 38.4 and 22.8% of residents under 15, younger than the county as a whole.

The other towns

Boyle 2,915, Ballaghaderreen 2,387, Castlerea 2,348 and Strokestown 850. Ballaghaderreen and Termonbarry share the youngest average age at 36.8, and Boyle is oldest at 43.9.

Where people come from

Only 41% of residents were born in the county and a further 40% elsewhere in the State. The largest non-Irish groups are UK citizens at 2,239, Polish at 1,228, Brazilian at 547 and Lithuanian at 433.

Three of the larger places people associate with Roscommon are recorded by the statistics office as towns shared with a neighbouring county: Athlone with Westmeath, Carrick-on-Shannon with Leitrim, and Lanesborough-Ballyleague with Longford. Their published populations describe the whole town on both sides of the line, so none of them is quoted here as a Roscommon figure.

Travel and work

The county that drives furthest

Two national comparisons, both stated by the statistics office itself.

Getting to work from Roscommon
Reported	Value
Commuters	26,488
Travelling by car	18,552, which is 70% of working commuters and the joint highest rate in the country
Average distance	24.9 kilometres, the second longest in the country
Average journey time	29.1 minutes, up from 26.4 in 2016
At work	More than 29,600, up 15% since 2016, with unemployment at 8% against 13%
Working from home at least one day a week	7,861 people, 27% of the workforce against 32% nationally

What 24.9 kilometres means

That is the average one-way distance to work. A parent who has already covered it twice in a day is not keen to add an evening round trip to Roscommon town or Athlone for a class.

The trains that do run

Irish Rail's Roscommon station at Abbeytown carries eircode F42 KF85 and Castlerea on Church Road F45 HH34, both on the Westport and Ballina line out of Heuston, with free parking at each.

Participation

Labour force participation is 58% against 61% nationally, partly a reflection of an average age more than two years above the national one.

Why an online class fits a driving county

Where 70% of commuters already drive and the average trip is among the longest in Ireland, every activity that needs a car competes with work for the same hours and the same fuel. A weekly lesson that arrives at the kitchen table is not a second-best version of a class in a hall. For a family outside the towns it is usually the only version that survives the winter.

Places in the county

Three visitor sites and a council office

Each checked on the website of the organisation that runs it.

King House, Boyle

A restored Georgian mansion on Military Road, eircode F52 WR26, presenting over 400 years of Irish history and housing the Mary McAleese Collection and the Boyle Civic Art Collection.

Lough Key Forest Park

Coillte describes a 350 hectare estate on the N4 between Boyle and Carrick-on-Shannon, one of its flagship destinations with almost 200,000 visits recorded in 2025.

Strokestown Park

Home of the National Famine Museum, eircode F42 H282, cared for by the Irish Heritage Trust, an independent charity.

Roscommon County Council itself is at Aras an Chontae, Roscommon, F42 VR98, and it publishes 187 datasets on the national data portal, which is why this page has a real file to work with rather than a note about an empty catalogue. None of these organisations is connected with us, and nor is any school. We checked the January 2018 list of forty schools that started Leaving Certificate Computer Science first and Roscommon does not appear on it, which is a statement about that list only. The census figures are the statistics office's; the counts in the project are ours, taken from the council's published file.

Learning ladder

From an empty box to a cleaning note

Treat the ages as rough. Placement happens in the trial lesson.

Ages 6 to 10

Nothing is something

Games that must behave sensibly when a box is empty, zero, or says none.

Scratch Coding for Kids Coding for Kids

Ages 11 to 13

What did it read in?

Loading a small file and checking it matches what is on screen before trusting any total.

Python and AI for Kids Maths Through Coding

Ages 14 to 18

Cleaning with a record

Fixing a real public file and writing down every change so someone else could repeat it.

Data Science for Teens Python for Teens

Ages 18 to 67

Many hands, one sheet

Working with data typed by lots of people without inheriting all of their habits.

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

Coding and AI

A summary of that file would mention the town of na

Not because anything is broken, but because nothing told the reader that na means nothing.

Hand the protected structures file to any automated summary and ask for the towns with the most listed buildings. The honest arithmetic produces na in second place, and a fluent paragraph will describe it with the same confidence as Boyle. The error is not in the arithmetic. It is upstream, in how absence was typed, and it is invisible to anything that only reads the values.

A learner who has once counted the five spellings of nothing looks for them in every file afterwards. That is a small habit with a large effect, because the people entering data never stop improvising and the tools will never be told what they meant.

Knowing what a blank really is remains a human judgement in 2026, and it is one of the most useful things a young programmer can be good at. The longer argument is in is learning to code still worth it in 2026.

Delivery

The format, plainly

What happens each week for a learner anywhere between Boyle and Athlone.

Taught, not recorded

A real teacher runs every lesson live and the learner is expected to answer, ask and try things out loud.

Placed with equals

Five to ten learners working at the same level, drawn from Roscommon and a number of other countries so the match is genuine.

The same slot each week

Normally two lessons weekly, about eight a month, at a day and time fixed at the start.

Irish school rhythm

Junior Cycle, Transition Year and the Leaving Certificate years, with holidays and exam weeks planned around.

A home setup

A computer rather than a phone, sound that works and a connection steady enough for video. The trial lesson confirms it.

One to one when needed

If no group at the right level meets at a time that suits, we teach the learner privately instead.

For the western half of the county

Castlerea, Ballaghaderreen and the villages around Frenchpark and Loughglynn are a long way from any town with a computing club, and a train timetable is no help to a fourteen year old who wants a class on a Tuesday evening. An online group at the right level, meeting at a fixed hour, is the arrangement that actually reaches them.

Fees

What classes cost in Roscommon

Three prices, stated once.

First classUSD 0

The trial lesson: complete, free, and ending with a level and a suggested course.

Group tuitionUSD 100

Monthly group place, around eight lessons, with five to ten learners at one level.

Private tuitionUSD 150

Monthly one to one teaching on the same weekly pattern.

Invoices are monthly and in US dollars, the one rate we use for families outside India, so Strokestown and Roscommon town pay the same and no second currency is involved. You pay nothing until the trial lesson has settled a course and a time. The pricing page covers pauses, missed lessons and switching format.

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Tell us how old the learner is and what they like doing. We plan the first hour around that, whether it is a first Scratch game or a real council file with a town called na in it.

FAQ

County Roscommon coding class questions

Asked most often by Roscommon families.

How many people live in County Roscommon?

The 2022 census counted 70,259, which is 5,715 more than in 2016 and growth of 9%, slightly ahead of the State.

What is the Roscommon data project?

Learners examine the council's register of 559 protected buildings and find that "no town" is written five different ways, so a basic count makes na look like the second biggest town. They clean it and document every step.

How big are the main towns?

Roscommon town had 6,555 residents in 2022, Boyle 2,915, Ballaghaderreen 2,387, Castlerea 2,348 and Strokestown 850.

Why does the page say Roscommon commuters drive further?

Because the statistics office says so: an average of 24.9 kilometres to work, the second longest in the country, with 70% going by car, the joint highest rate.

Was a Roscommon school among the first to offer Leaving Certificate Computer Science?

No. Roscommon does not appear on the January 2018 list of forty schools that started first. That tells you about that list, not about what schools offer now.

Does Roscommon have a Gaeltacht?

No. The statistics office defines the Gaeltacht by electoral divisions in seven named counties, and Roscommon is not one of them.

What time of day are lessons?

Mostly after school, in the evening and on weekend mornings. Our teachers are based in India, four and a half to five and a half hours ahead of Ireland depending on the season, and the exact slot is fixed in the trial lesson.

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in County Roscommon?

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 Roscommon 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

Next door to Roscommon

The county touches several others with their own pages: County Galway and County Mayo to the west, Leitrim and Sligo to the north, and Westmeath across the Shannon. If you want a side by side look at online schools, this comparison covers it, and the Ireland page lists everything else.

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Where a Roscommon learner begins

Scratch Coding for Kids

Python and AI for Kids

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

The second biggest town is called na

What the naive count says

The line count that lies too

A town spelled two ways

Why missing values are a design decision, not an accident

Roscommon by the numbers

Roscommon town

The other towns

Where people come from

The county that drives furthest

What 24.9 kilometres means

The trains that do run

Participation

Three visitor sites and a council office

King House, Boyle

Lough Key Forest Park

Strokestown Park

From an empty box to a cleaning note

Nothing is something

What did it read in?

Cleaning with a record

Many hands, one sheet

A summary of that file would mention the town of na

The format, plainly

Taught, not recorded

Placed with equals

The same slot each week

Irish school rhythm

A home setup

One to one when needed

What classes cost in Roscommon

Six reviews families left for us on Google, unaltered

Book the trial lesson

County Roscommon coding class questions

How many people live in County Roscommon?

What is the Roscommon data project?

How big are the main towns?

Why does the page say Roscommon commuters drive further?

Was a Roscommon school among the first to offer Leaving Certificate Computer Science?

Does Roscommon have a Gaeltacht?

What time of day are lessons?

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in County Roscommon?

What do County Roscommon coding classes cost?

How many learners are in a group?

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