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What are the best coding classes in Finglas?

In Finglas a teacher leads every lesson live over video, for a small group at one level or for one learner, in two sessions most weeks, and the classes are open from age six right up to sixty-seven. There is no travelling. You pay nothing for lesson one; after it the fee is USD 100 a month for a group or USD 150 a month one to one.

Dublin City Council runs particle monitors in Finglas, and the EPA publishes their readings hour by hour. In 2024 the monitor logged 8,658 hours of fine particles, PM2.5. Most hours were clean, with a middle value near 5 micrograms per cubic metre. A handful were not: at 8 in the evening on 7 January the reading reached 84.24, and at 10 at night on 31 October 66.84. How do you decide which hours are unusual? The usual rule, anything more than three standard deviations above the average, turns out to be blinded by the very spikes it is looking for. This page teaches a learner why, and a fairer yardstick: each hour compared with the same hour on an ordinary day.

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

Courses for Finglas

Four first courses for Finglas

Begin with the age band; the teacher checks the level in the free first lesson and suggests a better-fitting course if there is one.

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Ages 6 to 10

Coding for Kids

Blocks and a surprise meter: a game that decides when a score is really out of the ordinary.

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Ages 10 to 13

Maths Through Coding

Averages, middles and spreads in code, and what one huge number does to each of them.

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Ages 13 to 18

Python for Teens

Python with a year of hourly sensor readings: thresholds, baselines and the spikes they catch or miss.

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College and adult

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

For adults who set alert levels at work and want them to fire at the right moments.

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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

When is a spike a spike? A year at the Finglas particle monitor

The readings are the EPA's hourly PM2.5 figures for its station 46, which it describes as Dublin City Council's particulate monitors in Finglas, for the calendar year 2024, in micrograms per cubic metre.

Finglas PM2.5, 2024: two ways of deciding what is unusual
Rule or readingFigure
Hours with a reading8,658 of 8,784, 98.6 percent
Middle hour (median) and average5.07 and 7.05
Standard deviation, all hours6.40
Standard deviation without the top 1 percent5.30
7 January, 20:0084.24, 13.8 times a normal 8 pm
31 October, 22:0066.84, 10.5 times a normal 10 pm

Blinded by the spikes

The usual rule flags any hour more than three standard deviations above the average. But the spikes themselves inflate the standard deviation: with every hour included it is 6.40, and with the highest 1 percent set aside it is 5.30. The rule's line sits at 26.3 in the first case and 22.6 in the second, so it flags 170 hours or 275. The outliers raise the bar they are judged against.

The right comparison

Readings are higher on an ordinary evening than at noon, so a fixed line treats a normal 10 pm and a strange 3 pm alike. Comparing each hour with the median for that same hour of the day fixes it. By that yardstick 162 hours of 2024 were more than five times their hour's normal level, and 9 were more than ten times.

Two nights

At 20:00 on 7 January, the highest hour of the year, the reading was 84.24, 13.8 times the median for 8 pm. At 22:00 on 31 October it was 66.84, 10.5 times the median for 10 pm and the sixth highest hour of the year. The monitor records particles, not where they came from.

An alarm set from the data can be deafened by the data

Setting an alert at three standard deviations assumes the spread was measured on ordinary days. When the rare extreme hours are included, they widen the spread and push the alert line up, hiding some of themselves. Two habits help: measure the ordinary spread without the extremes, or with statistics that ignore them, and compare like with like, here each hour with the same hour on other days. The EPA names solid fuel burning in homes as the main source of fine particles nationally, which is one reason evenings and mornings differ.

The learner's program reads the EPA's readings pages for the station, which carry the hourly PM10 and PM2.5 series as chart data, and turns them into a table of times and values. It first checks a rule that must always hold: PM2.5 counts the smaller particles, so it can never exceed PM10 in the same hour, and across 14,304 paired hours from 2024 and 2026 it never does. It then computes the average, median and standard deviation, tries the three-standard-deviation rule with and without the extreme hours, works out a median for each hour of the day, and lists the hours that stand furthest above their own hour's normal. Last, it notes coverage: 2024 is nearly complete, but the readings pages for 2025 hold only 790 hours, so 2025 is left out rather than compared.

An episode, not a spike

The highest daily average of 2024 came on 9 March, 34.5, in a run of four high days from 8 to 11 March. A day-by-day view shows a sustained episode that an hour-by-hour alert would split into many separate alarms.

Evenings run higher

The median reading rises from about 4.6 in the early afternoon to about 6.3 late in the evening. That rise is normal for this monitor, which is exactly why a fixed alert line misjudges evening hours.

A missing year

For 2025 the EPA readings pages return only 790 hours for this station, about a tenth of the year. A comparison of 2025 with 2024 would compare a month with a year, so the program refuses to make it.

Finglas, named

Finglas through its library, its park and its planned Luas line

Each entry comes from the body responsible for it.

Named places in Finglas
PlaceWhat its own source says
Finglas LibrarySeamus Ennis Road, Dublin 11, D11 C603
Tolka Valley ParkFinglas South, Dublin 11, with wetlands built in 1999
Luas Finglas (proposed)A 3.9 kilometres Green Line extension with four new stops
EPA station 46Particulate monitors run by Dublin City Council

The library

The council lists Finglas Library as open 13:00 to 20:00 on Monday and Wednesday and 10:00 to 17:00 on Tuesday and Thursday, with an accessible parking bay, an induction loop and dyslexia-friendly reading pens to borrow.

The park

Dublin City Council says the wetlands in Tolka Valley Park were built in 1999 to treat the water arriving from the Finglaswood Stream, trapping pollution and creating new habitat, including for the common frog.

The planned line

The project team describes Luas Finglas as a proposed extension of the Green Line from Broombridge to Charlestown, 3.9 kilometres long, with stops at St Helena's, Finglas Village, St Margaret's and Charlestown and a 350-space park and ride near the M50.

What this page does not claim

No population is given for Finglas, because the page prints only what named bodies publish about the place. The particle readings come from one monitoring station, the page links no reading to a particular cause, and the Luas line is described as the project describes it: proposed.

Learning here

The week for a learner in Finglas

Most weeks bring two lessons, and the teacher is live for the whole of each.

Children

Younger learners begin in block code with games about what counts as surprising, learning that it depends on what is normal.

Teenagers

Teenagers move to Python, websites, AI projects and real sensor data such as the particle monitor's, with the statistics made concrete in code.

Adults

Adults can begin with no experience; lesson one sets the course.

Readings are the EPA's published hourly data for station 46; the coverage, averages, spreads, thresholds and hour-of-day comparisons were calculated by us on 20 September 2026. Library and park details are Dublin City Council's, and the Luas details the project team's.

Learning ladder

From a surprise meter to a fair alarm

The bands are a first guess; the opening lesson decides.

Ages 6 to 10

What is surprising?

Block-coded games that learn a normal score and react to an odd one.

Coding for KidsScratch Coding for Kids
Ages 11 to 13

Middle and spread

Python that finds the median, average and spread of a list and watches one big number move them.

Python and AI for KidsMaths Through Coding
Ages 14 to 18

Alarms and baselines

Thresholds with and without extremes, and hour-of-day baselines on real sensor data.

Python for TeensData Science for Teens
Ages 18 to 67

Alerts that work

Setting alert levels on monitoring data so they catch the right moments.

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Coding and AI

Ask an assistant to find the unusual hours

It will usually reach for the three standard deviation rule.

Hand an AI assistant a year of hourly readings and ask for the unusual ones, and a common answer computes the average and standard deviation and flags everything more than three deviations above. It is a sensible default, and on data like this it is blunted by the spikes it is hunting, and it treats every evening as suspicious because evenings are normally higher.

Someone who has worked through this project instead requests the spread measured without the extremes and a baseline by hour of the day, and checks the rule that PM2.5 can never exceed PM10 before trusting any of it. With those instructions an assistant writes much better code.

An outlier depends on what normal looks like. Code lets you define normal properly. The longer argument is in why coding is still a skill worth building in 2026.

Delivery

How lessons run for Finglas

The essentials, in six lines.

Real-time lessons

Each lesson is taught live, with the teacher looking at every learner's code as it is typed.

One level together

Five to ten learners at the same level, from Finglas, the rest of Ireland or further away.

Predictable days

Two regular days a week, around eight lessons in a month.

School-year aware

Holidays, mid-terms and exam weeks are accounted for in the plan.

What to have

A laptop or desktop, a microphone, headphones or speakers, and internet that can carry video.

Private teaching

One-to-one lessons for learners who are ahead, need more time or need hours no group offers.

Online only

There is no Modern Age Coders centre in Finglas or anywhere in Ireland. Every lesson is live on video and the same wherever the learner joins from.

Fees

Fees for Finglas

Kept simple.

First classUSD 0

A first lesson at no cost, level check included.

Group tuitionUSD 100

A month in a same-level group of five to ten, about eight live lessons.

Private tuitionUSD 150

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

Every family outside India pays one US dollar fee, charged monthly. The free lesson carries no obligation, the charge starts only when the course begins, and the pricing page explains holidays, missed lessons and changing between group and one-to-one teaching.

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Free placement class

Book a free first lesson in Finglas

Tell us the learner's age and what they like, and we will plan the first lesson around it. The hour may end with a simple game, a working program, or an alarm that can tell an ordinary evening from a strange one.

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FAQ

Finglas coding class questions

Questions Finglas families ask most often.

Is there a Modern Age Coders centre in Finglas?

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 this page is Indian.

What is the particle monitor project?

The learner takes the EPA's 2024 hourly PM2.5 readings for the Finglas station, 8,658 hours, and tests ways of spotting unusual hours: the usual three standard deviation rule is blunted by the spikes themselves (6.40 against 5.30 without them), while an hour-of-day baseline shows 84.24 at 8 pm on 7 January was 13.8 times a normal 8 pm.

Does the page say what caused the high readings?

No. The monitor measures particles, not their source. The page quotes the EPA's national statement about the main sources of fine particles and makes no claim about any particular hour.

Why is there no population figure for Finglas on this page?

This page sticks to facts that named bodies publish about Finglas, and the three it draws on, the EPA, Dublin City Council and the Luas Finglas team, publish no resident count for it.

At what times do lessons run?

On weekdays from after school into the evening, and at weekends during the day. Times are set in Irish time. The teachers are in India, five and a half hours ahead of Finglas in winter and four and a half in summer, and we only offer times that work at both ends.

Can I join as an adult?

Yes. Grown-up learners up to sixty-seven are welcome, complete beginners included, and they pick a same-level group or private lessons once the free lesson is done.

Will my child be with other Finglas children?

Only by chance, because groups are formed by level and classmates may be anywhere in Ireland or abroad.

What do coding classes in Finglas cost?

The first lesson is free. After that a group place is 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 are 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 time that suits, lessons are one to one.

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Around Finglas

To the east, Glasnevin has a project on temperature records and Drumcondra one on noise readings. For the city as a whole see the Dublin page, and for every other place the Ireland hub.

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