Germany has sixteen school systems, one per Land, and they do not even start the summer holidays in the same month. This page shows how German schooling is organised and where coding and maths fit into it, how our live classes in English work from Kiel to Konstanz, which competitions fall in the 2026/27 school year, and a short program that finds the only five days in 2027 when every pupil in the country is on holiday at once.
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In short
Modern Age Coders teaches coding, Python, AI and maths to learners in Germany in live online classes held in English, for children from 6, teenagers working towards the MSA, the Abitur, the IB or IGCSE, and adults. Each learner has one regular mentor who matches their pace and accent. Classes run in German afternoons, evenings and weekends, in a group of fifteen to twenty or one to one, and the first class is free.
Where most learners in Germany start
Three courses for three stages of German school
A Grundschule child who has never coded, a pupil in Klasse 5 to 10 whose Land has just made Informatik compulsory, and an Oberstufe student who wants Informatik as an Abitur subject.
How does school work in Germany, and where does coding fit?
Education belongs to the Länder, so the answer starts with which of the sixteen your child lives in. The Kultusministerkonferenz, where the education ministers of the Länder meet, sets the common frame.
One frame, sixteen versions
According to the KMK, Grundschule covers grades 1 to 4 everywhere except Berlin and Brandenburg, where it runs to grade 6. There is no leaving exam at the end of it. Secondary school then splits into tracks, and every Land names its school types differently: a Gemeinschaftsschule in one Land is an Oberschule or an Integrierte Sekundarschule in another. The Gymnasium is the only school type that exists in every Land.
The Abitur comes after 12 or 13 years of school, called G8 and G9, and the KMK notes that the written Abitur papers are now set centrally in almost all Länder. The gymnasiale Oberstufe has a one-year Einführungsphase followed by a two-year Qualifikationsphase, whose marks count towards the final result.
Computing is the least settled subject
Maths and German are taught in every year of every school. Informatik is not. The Gesellschaft für Informatik counted six Länder in its 2026/27 Informatik-Monitor where no Informatik lesson is compulsory for all pupils: Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz and Sachsen-Anhalt. Bremen plans to change that from 2027/28 and Rheinland-Pfalz from 2028/29.
At the top of school the subject is thinner still: the same monitor puts the share of Oberstufe pupils who take Informatik in the Qualifikationsphase at about 15 percent nationally. A child in Germany can reach the Abitur without ever having written a program.
A German school career and what it means for a learner who wants to code
Stage
Usual grades
What to know
Grundschule
1 to 4 (1 to 6 in Berlin and Brandenburg)
No compulsory computing; a good age to start with Scratch
Sekundarstufe I
5 to 9 or 10
Informatik compulsory in some Länder, elective or absent in others
Mittlerer Schulabschluss
End of grade 10
Exams set by the Land in most Länder
Einführungsphase
10 or 11
Course choices for the Abitur are made
Qualifikationsphase
Last two years
Informatik as a Grundkurs or Leistungskurs where the school offers it
Abitur
After grade 12 (G8) or 13 (G9)
Written papers set centrally in almost all Länder
Sources: KMK, pages on the Primarbereich, Sekundarstufe I and Sekundarstufe II; Gesellschaft für Informatik, Informatik-Monitor 2026/27. Read on 2 November 2026. Our Informatik-Nachhilfe page, in German, has the rule for each Land in one table.
Our classes do not replace any of this, and they do not lead to a German qualification. What they add is time: two live hours a week in which a learner writes and tests real programs or works through maths problems with a mentor, at whatever point of the German system they have reached.
Taught in English
Why would a family in Germany choose classes in English?
Every class is live and every class is in English. We do not teach in German, and we think it is fairer to say so at the top of the page than after a trial class.
Families who already live in English
Children at international and bilingual schools, families who moved to Germany for work and pupils on the IB or IGCSE learn in English at school. For them an English coding class is simply the language they think in for school subjects.
Pupils at German schools
For a pupil at a German Gymnasium or Gesamtschule, a weekly class in English is coding and English practice at the same time. Programming keywords are English words anyway: if, while, print and return read the same in Munich and Mumbai.
Adults at work
Many teams in Germany write code, documentation and tickets in English. Adults who learn Python, automation or AI agents with us learn the vocabulary their colleagues and the official documentation use.
Matched to the learner
The mentor adapts to the learner, not the other way round. They speak clearly and at a pace the learner can follow, rephrase an instruction rather than repeat it louder, and get used to how each person speaks. A ten year old who mixes in a German word is understood and given the English one without fuss.
Who teaches
Our mentors are based in India and teach live over video. Each learner keeps the same mentor from week to week, so after a few classes the mentor knows where they hesitate, what they find easy and which kind of problem keeps them interested.
A German calendar project
Sixteen Länder, sixteen summer holidays: when is everyone off at once?
German families plan around a calendar that no other country has: the Länder take turns. The KMK fixes the summer holidays years in advance so that sixteen Länder do not all hit the motorways in the same week. Our students turn that calendar into a program and meet one of the oldest bugs in computing on the way.
The rule
In its description of the German school system, the KMK explains that summer holidays last six weeks and are fixed in a rolling system inside a window from mid-June to mid-September. Every other holiday, autumn, Christmas, Easter and the rest, each Land sets for itself.
The KMK publishes the summer dates for several years at once. Its table for 2025 to 2030 gives, for every Land and every year, the first and the last day of the holiday. Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland open the summer of 2027 on 28 June; Bayern closes it on 13 September.
The question
Is there any day in 2027 when every pupil in Germany is on summer holiday? A cousin in Hamburg and a cousin in Munich want to know, and so does anyone planning a summer coding camp for the whole country.
Students type the sixteen ranges into a dictionary, write a function that counts how many Länder are on holiday on a given day, and walk through the summer one day at a time.
Version 1: count the Länder on holiday each dayPython
from datetime import date, timedelta
# KMK summer holidays 2027: first and last day of holiday, per Land
ferien = {
"BW": ("29.07", "11.09"), "BY": ("02.08", "13.09"), "BE": ("01.07", "14.08"),
"BB": ("01.07", "14.08"), "HB": ("08.07", "18.08"), "HH": ("01.07", "11.08"),
"HE": ("28.06", "06.08"), "MV": ("05.07", "14.08"), "NI": ("08.07", "18.08"),
"NW": ("19.07", "31.08"), "RP": ("28.06", "06.08"), "SL": ("28.06", "06.08"),
"SN": ("10.07", "20.08"), "ST": ("10.07", "20.08"), "SH": ("03.07", "14.08"),
"TH": ("10.07", "20.08"),
}
def to_date(text):
day, month = text.split(".")
return date(2027, int(month), int(day))
def on_holiday(day):
count = 0
for first, last in ferien.values():
if to_date(first) <= day < to_date(last):
count += 1
return count
day = date(2027, 6, 1)
together = []
while day.year == 2027 and day.month < 10:
if on_holiday(day) == 16:
together.append(day)
day += timedelta(days=1)
print("Days with all 16 Laender on holiday:", len(together))
print("From", together[0], "to", together[-1])
It prints: Days with all 16 Laender on holiday: 4 and From 2027-08-02 to 2027-08-05.
Four days, Monday 2 August to Thursday 5 August 2027. It looks right, and that is what makes it dangerous. The KMK table says the dates are the first and the last day of the holiday, so 6 August is still a holiday in Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland. The test day < to_date(last) throws the last day of every holiday away. Programmers call this an off-by-one error, and it is one of the most common mistakes in all of software, from calendars to array indexes.
Version 2: the last day counts tooPython
def on_holiday(day):
count = 0
for first, last in ferien.values():
if to_date(first) <= day <= to_date(last): # the last day is a holiday too
count += 1
return count
With this one change the program prints Days with all 16 Laender on holiday: 5 and From 2027-08-02 to 2027-08-06: the whole working week from Monday 2 to Friday 6 August 2027.
Summer holidays 2027 by Land, first and last day, with the length counted both ways in (our count)
Land
First day
Last day
Days
Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland
28 June
6 August
40
Berlin, Brandenburg
1 July
14 August
45
Hamburg
1 July
11 August
42
Schleswig-Holstein
3 July
14 August
43
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
5 July
14 August
41
Bremen, Niedersachsen
8 July
18 August
42
Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen
10 July
20 August
42
Nordrhein-Westfalen
19 July
31 August
44
Baden-Württemberg
29 July
11 September
45
Bayern
2 August
13 September
43
Data: Kultusministerkonferenz, Sommerferienregelung 2025 bis 2030, row 2027 for each Land; KMK, Das Bildungswesen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Eurydice dossier). The day counts and the overlap are our own calculation. Six weeks is 42 days, yet the lengths run from 40 to 45, because each Land starts and ends its holiday on a day of the week that suits its own school calendar.
Ages 7 to 9, on paper. Draw sixteen strips on squared paper, one per Land, from 28 June to 13 September. Colour the holiday days. Where are all sixteen coloured?
Ages 9 to 12, Scratch. Store the first and last day of four Länder as day numbers in a list and make a sprite say how many Länder are free on the day you type in.
Ages 12 to 16, Python. Run Version 1, then find the bug before reading Version 2. Write one test for 6 August that would have caught it.
Going further. Change the program to print, for each day from 28 June to 13 September 2027, how many Länder are on holiday, and draw the result as a bar chart. Which week is the busiest on the roads?
The 2026/27 school year
Which coding and maths competitions can pupils in Germany enter in 2026/27?
Germany runs some of the largest school competitions in Europe, most of them free and entered through the school. These are the dates their organisers publish for this school year.
Competition dates for the 2026/27 school year, from each organiser
Competition
Who
Dates
Organiser
Informatik-Biber
Grades 3 to 13
9 to 20 November 2026
Bundesweite Informatikwettbewerbe
Bundeswettbewerb Informatik, round 1
Pupils up to the Abitur
1 September to 23 November 2026
Bundesweite Informatikwettbewerbe
Mathematik-Olympiade
Grades 3 to 13
Regionalrunde 11 November 2026; Landesrunde 26 to 28 February 2027; Bundesrunde 30 May to 2 June 2027
Mathematik-Olympiaden e.V.
Känguru der Mathematik
Grades 3 to 13
8 April 2027; schools register from 1 December 2026 to 31 January 2027
Mathematikwettbewerb Känguru e.V.
Jugend forscht
From grade 4 up to age 21
Register by 30 November; national final in May
Stiftung Jugend forscht
International Olympiad in Informatics
The German team
12 to 19 September 2027, Potsdam
Hosted at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Sources: bwinf.de (Biber 2026, Bundeswettbewerb, IOI 2027 pages); mathematik-olympiaden.de and mathe-wettbewerbe.de; mathe-kaenguru.de; jugend-forscht.de. All read on 2 November 2026. The Känguru is in April in 2027 rather than its usual March Thursday, because the March date falls just before the Easter holidays in almost every Land.
Coding competitions
The Biber needs no programming at all: short logic puzzles in 30 to 40 minutes. The Bundeswettbewerb Informatik is the opposite end, with real algorithm problems solved over weeks, and its best entrants go on to the selection for the German team at the International Olympiad in Informatics. In 2027 that olympiad comes to Potsdam, the second time Germany has hosted it after 1992.
Maths competitions
The Mathematik-Olympiade runs in rounds from the school up to a national final, which the 2027 organisers place in Kaiserslautern. The Känguru is a single 75-minute multiple-choice paper written on one day in schools across Germany; more than 920,000 pupils took part in 2026.
We are not connected with any of these organisers and we never copy their problems. In class we write our own puzzles and problems in the same style. Our competitions course works towards the Biber and the Bundeswettbewerb, and the Mathematik-Olympiade and Känguru course towards the maths contests.
Class times
What time are the classes in Germany?
Germany keeps one time zone, so these times work the same in Hamburg, Leipzig and Freiburg. India is ahead of Germany, which puts a German afternoon in the mentor's evening.
German class times and the same moment in India
Time in Germany
India, until 28 March 2027
India, from 28 March 2027
14:30
19:00
18:00
16:30
21:00
20:00
Saturday 09:30
14:00
13:00
Sunday 11:00
15:30
14:30
Germany uses Central European Time, UTC+1, in winter and Central European Summer Time, UTC+2, in summer, as set out in the Einheitenzeitgesetz. Summer time ended on 25 October 2026 and starts again on 28 March 2027. India stays at UTC+5:30 all year, which makes the gap 4 hours 30 minutes in winter and 3 hours 30 minutes in summer.
Children usually come straight after school or on a weekend morning. Teenagers in the Oberstufe often prefer late afternoons, and adults book evenings up to about 18:30 German time, or weekends. When you book the free class you pick a time in your own clock; the mentor sees the same moment in theirs.
Germany, page by page
Every page we have written for families in Germany
Each page answers one question for one place, school stage or competition, with its own sources and its own project.
Our own milestones, used to place each learner in the right group and to report progress. They sit beside the German school stages, not in place of them.
Coding milestones by German school stage (ours)
Stage
School stage
The learner can
1. Steps and loops
Grundschule
Build a Scratch game with events, loops and a score
2. Typed code
Klasse 5 to 7
Write Python with variables, conditions and functions
3. Data and tests
Klasse 7 to 10
Read a file, check edge cases and test a function on its boundaries
4. Structures
Oberstufe
Use lists, dictionaries, classes and recursion, and trace code on paper
5. Real projects
Abitur and beyond
Plan, build and explain a program that other people use
For parents
Stage 3 is the holiday project above: a program that seemed right until one test on the last day of the range proved it wrong.
We report what your child built and could explain, never how many hours they spent at a screen.
For learners
Whenever a range has a start and an end, ask whether the end is in or out before you write the loop.
Test the first and the last value first. Most bugs live at the edges.
More courses
Nine more courses for learners in Germany
Every course is live, in English, with one regular mentor, in a group or one to one.
I
School and exams
Ages 14 to 19
GMY / SCHOOL / 01
Abitur maths in English
Analysis, geometry and stochastics for LK and GK pupils.
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Fees
Fees for learners in Germany
One monthly fee covers eight live classes of an hour each. We show it in euro, converted at the European Central Bank reference rate; the payment is taken in US dollars, so your bank makes the final conversion and your statement may differ by a little.
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Families in Germany ask
Coding classes in Germany: common questions
Are the classes in German or in English?
In English only. Every class is taught live in English by a mentor who matches the learner's pace and accent. We do not offer lessons in German. Code itself uses English keywords, so learners pick up the vocabulary quickly.
Is Informatik compulsory in German schools?
It depends on the Land. The Gesellschaft für Informatik counted six Länder in 2026/27 without Informatik compulsory for all pupils: Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz and Sachsen-Anhalt. Bremen plans compulsory Informatik from 2027/28 and Rheinland-Pfalz from 2028/29.
From what age can my child start?
From 6. Children aged 6 to 12 start with Scratch, where blocks snap together and nothing has to be typed, and move to typed Python from about 9. Teenagers and adults start wherever their level is.
Do you help with the Abitur?
Yes, alongside school. We teach Abitur maths and Informatik in English, with our own practice tasks in the style of the German exams. We are not a school, we do not award German qualifications, and the school course stays the one that counts.
When are classes in German time?
Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays. Most learners in Germany take classes in the afternoon, the early evening or on weekend mornings.
Where are the teachers?
In India. Our mentors teach live over video, and each learner keeps the same mentor from week to week. India is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of Germany in winter and 3 hours 30 minutes in summer, so a German afternoon is the mentor's evening.
Which currency do I pay in?
Fees are shown on this page in euro at the European Central Bank reference rate. The payment itself is taken in US dollars and your bank converts it, so the amount on your statement can differ slightly. The first class is free and needs no card.
Are classes live or recorded?
Live. Every class is held in real time with a mentor and either a group of fifteen to twenty learners or the learner alone. Nothing is a recorded video course.
Can my child enter German competitions through you?
Competitions such as the Informatik-Biber, the Mathematik-Olympiade and the Känguru are entered through the school. We prepare learners with our own problems in the same style, and we are not connected with any organiser.
Do you teach adults in Germany?
Yes. Adults learn Python, automation, web development and AI coding agents with us, usually in the evening or at weekends, in English. Many find that useful because their teams already work in English.
The first class is a conversation and a small task at the learner's level. The mentor sees how they think and how comfortable they are in English, then suggests a course and a group.
If you want to read more first, how we teach describes a live class, and the course list has every syllabus.
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