One mentor. One student. Real Python, real JavaScript, real AI agents — taught with the rigour your child's Gymnasium would respect and the openness their future at TUM, RWTH Aachen or SAP will require. USD 100 / Monat (≈ EUR 92), eight live sessions, zwei pro Woche, no contract.
Click any track to open the course page, or book a free demo and a mentor matches your child to the right one.
Real Python, JavaScript, Git, web apps and modern AI engineering — paced to a German Gymnasium term. We line up with Informatik LK, Abitur exam content, BWInf rounds and Jugend forscht entries. Many of our students go on to TUM, RWTH, TU Berlin and KIT informatics tracks.
Scratch → real Python by month three. Tiny games, drawing apps, first AI projects.
LLM apps, RAG, tool-using agents — the way German AI startups actually ship.
Algorithms, system design, AI engineering. Top-ups for German uni students.
Mid-career Quereinsteiger into software, data and AI roles.
All-female mentor pairing, role models from the Berlin & Munich AI scene.
Gymnasium informatics cohorts, AGs and German company upskilling programmes.
We've taught coding in 60+ German cities since 2022. These are the questions we hear in every demo call — and the answers we built the school around.
We treat coding the way German engineering treats anything — clearly defined inputs, clean abstractions, named functions, working tests. Schwammig is not an option.
Our advanced track aligns with the algorithms, complexity and Python content that appear on Informatik LK papers and the Abitur. We also coach BWInf rounds and Jugend-forscht entries.
Mentors work Central European Time, not US-evening. Slots cover 09:00–21:00 CET — comfortable after Schule, after Verein, or on weekend mornings.
Students build LLM apps end-to-end: prompts, structured output, retrieval, tool-calling, agents, evals, guardrails, deployment. The same patterns DeepL, Aleph Alpha and Helsing ship in production.
We teach in clear English so your child reads the actual docs that ship the world's software. Mentors translate when something needs to land in German — perfect for expat families in Berlin, München and Frankfurt.
One face, every lesson. Mentors stay with your child for the year unless you ask to switch — and you can switch at any time, monatlich kündbar.
Industrial AI
SAP, Siemens, Bosch, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen and ZF are running some of the most ambitious industrial-AI programmes in the world — and they hire from German universities your child may attend.
A startup scene with weight
Berlin houses Zalando, N26, Trade Republic, Delivery Hero, HelloFresh and a long tail of AI startups. Munich is home to Helsing, Personio and Celonis. Heidelberg has Aleph Alpha. Köln has DeepL.
A research base that runs deep
DFKI, Helmholtz AI, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Cyber Valley Tübingen, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, TUM AI & the ELLIS network — Germany ships fundamental AI research at the level of any country in the world.
A federal curriculum that's catching up
Informatik is now part of the Stundentafel in most Bundesländer — but classroom hours are tight, teachers are scarce, and the path from "first Python" to a shipped AI agent still mostly happens outside school.
A skills gap the Bundesregierung admits
The KI-Strategie der Bundesregierung and the Digitalstrategie 2025 both publicly state Germany is short on engineering talent. Your child learning real coding now is a serious advantage by 2030.
English is the working language of code
Every meaningful library, paper and API is documented in English. Children who learn programming and English-language documentation together are massively ahead by Klasse 11.
Each step is a real chapter of learning, not a marketing milestone. Below is a typical year for a 14-year-old starting Klasse 9 in Berlin from absolute zero.
Decomposition, abstraction, debugging, runtime, memory. First real Python on day one — no block-based detours for older learners.
Functions, lists, dicts, classes, files, exceptions, modules. A 200-line program by week 12 — fully understood, fully theirs, pushed to GitHub.
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, the browser, the network, the server. First deployed personal site on Vercel or GitHub Pages — visible at school, by Eltern, on a CV.
Prompting, structured output, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation. Students build their first practical AI tool — a study helper they actually use.
Multi-step agents, memory, tool calling, guardrails, observability. Real engineering — not a ChatGPT wrapper demo.
Arrays, hashing, trees, graphs, recursion, dynamic programming. Aligned to Bundeswettbewerb Informatik and the standard German Abitur Informatik content.
APIs, databases, caches, queues — the architecture vocabulary every TUM / RWTH / TU Berlin / KIT informatics student is expected to speak.
A full agentic-AI product or full-stack web app. Designed by the student, built with the mentor, publicly deployed, added to a portfolio that helps with German university applications or first jobs.
Names abbreviated. Each project deployed publicly during normal class hours, used by the student afterwards.
Indexed 184 pages of Maxi's Informatik LK and Mathe LK notes, built a retrieval-augmented Q&A agent that cites his own pages back. Now used by three classmates.
Pulls live MVV open data, predicts which Schwabing-to-school S-Bahn is likely delayed tomorrow morning. Her mum looks at it every weekday.
Two siblings shipped a Next.js web app to fairly track chores and pocket-money. Real auth, real database. Their school's Informatik AG demoed it.
Interactive web app animating Dijkstra, BFS, DFS, A*, Floyd-Warshall on user-drawn graphs. Used across her Informatik LK course.
Discord bot for his Schul-Robotik-AG that tracks per-match scores, generates Stundenpläne and predicts opponents using last-season data. Used at FLL regionals.
Agentic AI assistant Sophie shipped at her Frankfurt bank that drafts compliance summaries and flags missing BaFin controls. Saves hours every week.
"Within six months my son went from 'doesn't really like Informatik' to building a working AI agent his Lehrer asked him to demo. We don't say this lightly — this is the best money we've ever spent on his education."
"Maxi's Abitur Informatik mock score went from 9 to 14 points after one term."— Familie B. · Berlin
"I'm 31, switched from Vertrieb to AI engineering in nine months. Worth every Euro."— Felix R. · Köln
"My daughter is 9, in Hamburg, and reads Python error messages on her own. Wahnsinn."— Stefanie L. · Hamburg
"Better than the Volkshochschule and a third the price. Mentor-Modell ist Gold wert."— Markus T. · Stuttgart
Every student is paired with one mentor and stays with them for the year. Below is the kind of mentor your child can expect to meet.
Ships production AI for a living — RAG, agents, evals, guardrails. Best fit for teens building real LLM apps and adult career-switchers.
Python, TypeScript, Next.js, AWS. Best fit for teens shipping deployed web apps and adults retraining into SWE roles.
Bundeswettbewerb-Informatik-level algorithms. Best fit for Informatik LK, BWInf rounds and TUM / RWTH / KIT entry preparation.
Patient, child-development-aware, calm pace. Bridges Scratch to real Python without losing the joy that brought your child to coding.
No registration fee. No annual lock-in. No surprise upsells. Pay in USD via Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Apple Pay, Google Pay or SEPA — your bank handles the EUR conversion.
Same curriculum, same mentors, age-banded small group.
≈ EUR 37 / Monat · 8 sessions · 2 per week
Deepest progress, fully customised pace. Used by 80% of our German families.
≈ EUR 92 / Monat · 8 sessions · 2 per week
Volkshochschule, Nachhilfe, free YouTube — they all have a place. Here is honestly where we sit.
Whether your child sits Abitur in Bayern, Berlin or Schleswig-Holstein, our advanced track maps to the algorithms, Python and data-handling content that appears on Informatik LK papers and the Abitur. Mentors know each state's curriculum quirks.
Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Freiburg, Heidelberg. Strong engineering pipeline (KIT, Uni Heidelberg).
München, Nürnberg, Augsburg, Regensburg. Demanding Bayerisches Abitur Informatik — our spine matches it.
All twelve Bezirke covered. Big expat-family demand, English-first instruction native to our model.
Potsdam, Cottbus, Frankfurt (Oder). HPI's home turf — many of our Brandenburg families aim there.
Bremen + Bremerhaven. Smaller market, careful pacing; we know the Schulamt Informatik framework.
Eppendorf, Altona, Hamburg-Mitte, Wandsbek. Strong Otto / Airbus / startup AI scene context.
Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Kassel. Banking-AI flavour around Frankfurt is the norm.
Rostock, Schwerin, Greifswald. Lighter cohort — patient mentors, English-first works very well here.
Hannover, Braunschweig, Osnabrück, Oldenburg. Solid Informatik LK demand in mid-size Gymnasien.
Köln, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, Bochum, Aachen. Largest cohort — RWTH-bound students aplenty.
Mainz, Ludwigshafen, Koblenz, Trier. BASF / chem-AI context relevant for adult learners.
Saarbrücken. DFKI's home — many parents already know what serious AI research looks like.
Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz. TU Dresden / Uni Leipzig pipeline — strong informatics culture.
Magdeburg, Halle. Growing demand; we run small but tight cohorts here.
Kiel, Lübeck, Flensburg. Adapted to the SH Informatik framework which is lighter on practical coding.
Erfurt, Jena, Weimar. Friedrich-Schiller-Uni Jena candidates — algorithms emphasis welcomed.
Six closer looks at where most of our German families learn with us — and how the local school year and tech context shape what we teach there.
Big expat-family demand, English-first instruction native to us. Many Berlin learners are bilingual children at JFK School, Berlin International, Phorms or Nelson-Mandela-Schule who want a real coding mentor outside school hours.
TUM-bound. Bavarian Abitur Informatik is demanding and our spine matches it. Lots of weekend-morning slots — Bavarian kids fence, ski and play in Orchester after school, so we move classes to Samstag-Vormittag.
Otto, Airbus and a strong startup scene in HafenCity. Our Hamburg families lean towards full-stack and AI builders, often with sailing-club Saturdays — mid-week evenings dominate.
Banking-AI everywhere. Many adult learners from Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, KfW, BaFin and ECB-adjacent roles. Teens here often aim at the Goethe-Uni informatics track.
DeepL's home. A noticeable share of our Köln learners are children of engineers and translators — bilingual, curious, fast. Strong Karneval-week pause culture; we plan around it.
Bosch, Mercedes, Porsche, ZF. Adult learners often want industrial-AI angles; teens often join from Vaihingen / Möhringen Gymnasien and aim at KIT or Uni Stuttgart informatics.
You pick two slots per week. These are the windows most German families choose — all in Central European Time. Extra slots open on request.
A real 30-minute live session on your child's CET slot. We tailor a learning plan to where your child is today, in German if helpful. No card, no commitment, kein Verkaufsdruck.
Volkshochschule and most Nachhilfe operate in classroom or homework-help mode. We operate in mentorship mode — one mentor, one student, shipping real engineering. We are also closer to a German Gymnasium's level of rigour than most consumer "kids-code" platforms.
Yes. Our advanced track aligns with the Python, algorithms, complexity and data-handling content that appears on Informatik LK papers and Abitur exams across all 16 Bundesländer. We also actively coach Bundeswettbewerb Informatik (BWInf) rounds and Jugend forscht entries.
Classes are taught in clear, slow English — because every meaningful software library, paper and API is documented in English and learning that vocabulary early is a serious advantage. Mentors switch to German vocabulary on demand, and we adapt for younger children and for non-English-comfortable Eltern.
Private 1:1 mentorship is USD 100 (≈ EUR 92) per month — 8 sessions, 2 per week. Small-group cohort is USD 40 (≈ EUR 37) per month, same schedule. No registration fee, no contract, monatlich kündbar.
Real AI engineering. Students build LLM-powered applications: retrieval-augmented generation, structured output, tool-calling, multi-step agents, evaluations, guardrails, deployment. The same patterns shipped at DeepL (Köln), Aleph Alpha (Heidelberg), Helsing (München) and SAP.
Yes — preparation paths to TU München, RWTH Aachen, KIT Karlsruhe, TU Berlin, HU Berlin, LMU München, Uni Heidelberg, TU Dresden and Uni Stuttgart are something we plan deliberately, with the right mentor pairing.
Mentors work 09:00 – 21:00 CET. Most weekday families pick 15:30, 17:00, 18:00 or 19:30 slots. Saturday and Sunday mornings (09:00 – 12:00 CET) are popular for Bavarian families and for any family that prefers calm weekend coding.
Yes. Many of our German students attend bilingual or international schools (JFK Berlin, BIS, Berlin Brandenburg International School, Phorms, MIS Munich, IS Hamburg, FIS Frankfurt, ISD Düsseldorf, etc.). Mentors adapt project vocabulary so it complements school work.
Under-13s never operate LLM APIs against the open internet without a mentor present. We use age-appropriate models, guardrailed prompts, content filters and a "sandbox-only" rule for the youngest learners. Parents see exactly what tools are introduced each month.
Yes. We accept Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Apple Pay, Google Pay (all issued in Germany), and SEPA-Lastschrift for adult invoices. Billing is in USD; your bank applies the live EUR conversion — typically ≈ EUR 92 for the 1:1 plan.
You decide. Many families pause during Sommerferien, Herbstferien, Weihnachtsferien, Faschingsferien, Osterferien or Pfingstferien — and just resume after. Other families use the holidays for a focused project sprint. You can pause any month with one message to your mentor.
Kein Problem. You can request a switch at any time, for any reason. We re-match within a week and you keep the same monthly schedule. About 12% of our students switch once in the first three months — that is a feature, not a failure.
A typical first month for a 13-year-old German student starting from zero. Pacing adapts up or down for younger or older learners.
Free 30-minute Probestunde on Zoom. Mentor candidate meets your child, gets a feel for prior Scratch / Informatik-AG exposure, screen-time tolerance, and exam pressure. Calendar invites go out for the next two CET slots.
First two real sessions. Sequencing, decomposition, debugging — die Freude über "der Bug gehört mir." For older students this is Python in VS Code from day one. No drag-and-drop blocks past age 9.
VS Code installed, Python 3 working, Terminal no longer scary. First original program — not from a tutorial — with input/output, variables, loops. Pushed to your child's first personal GitHub repository.
End-of-month checkpoint: a small project chosen by the student — a Bundesliga-result lookup, a Berlin S-Bahn delay tracker, a Bayern-Abi quiz — shipped to GitHub Pages or Vercel. You receive a written Fortschrittsbericht from the mentor.
Full names withheld on request. Each story below is a real adult student who joined us and ended up in a software, data or AI role at a German employer.
German-directness. We'd rather lose your business than mis-sell our school.
The honest version. This is what one 1:1 session looks like for a 14-year-old in their third month with us.
Two minutes of "wie war die Woche" — the human bit. Mentor scrolls back the chat history, cameras on for both.
A 6-minute recall test of last lesson's idea. Not for marks — for the brain. Mentor watches for the Aha-Moment and the cobwebs.
Ten minutes of new material. Live-shared VS Code. Mentor types two lines, student types the next two. Wrong moves welcome. Errors read aloud.
The student leads. The Mentor coaches. This is where the actual learning happens — feature shipped, bug fixed, function refactored. The Mentor types nothing; only asks.
Five minutes to look at what was written. What's good? What could be cleaner? The student names one thing they're proud of. This bit matters more than it sounds.
Mentor writes a 4-line note to the Eltern: what was covered, how the student felt, optional Hausaufgaben, plan for next class. Cameras off. Fertig.
Fair worry. Our sessions are 45 minutes, twice a week — total 90 minutes — and most of that time the child is creating, not consuming. Mentors enforce screen-off breaks. We genuinely believe deliberate, mentor-led screen time is qualitatively different from passive TikTok time, and many German parents tell us their child chooses less passive time after a few months.
Nein. We start in Scratch only as a bridge for the youngest learners. By month three almost every student writes real, runnable Python that imports real libraries, handles real errors and pushes to a real GitHub repo. We deliberately avoid "Python für Kinder" tools that hide the real language.
Keine Bindung. Monatlich kündbar — no fee, no awkward conversation. If your child loses interest, we'd rather hear early and either pause or pivot the project track to something more exciting (game design, music coding, AI art).
Under-13s never interact with raw LLM APIs against the open internet without a Mentor present. Age-appropriate models, guardrailed prompts, content filters, "sandbox-only" rule. Parents see every prompt and output. We're stricter on this than most.
Many of our most successful students started shy. The first lesson is structured around the code, not the camera — your child looks at VS Code, not at a face. Mentors trained for long pauses, no pressure. Most shy students are comfortable by Stunde 3.
Nein. Bootcamps compress 12 weeks of intense study aiming at a job. We're the opposite: a slow, year-round Mentorship that respects how German school pacing works. We don't promise jobs after 12 weeks. We promise a real codebase, a real GitHub history, a real Mentor relationship.
We're not affiliated with any of these schools — we simply mentor the students who attend them. Over time we've learned each school's Informatik pace, project culture and Klausur style.
Zehlendorf Gymnasium with serious Mathe and Informatik LK culture. Many of our Berlin teens come from here, often targeting TU Berlin or HU Berlin Informatik.
One of München's classical Gymnasien. Demanding Naturwissenschaftliches Profil. Our mentors lean into TUM-aware projects for these students.
Hamburg Eppendorf Gymnasium. Strong NaWi profile. Many of our FEG students aim at TUHH or Uni Hamburg informatics.
Frankfurt-Westend Gymnasium. Big banking-family cohort. Many of our students here aim at Goethe-Uni or TU Darmstadt informatics.
Köln-Ostheim Gymnasium with strong Informatik LK enrolment. We coach NRW Abitur Informatik and BWInf for several students from here every Halbjahr.
Heidelberg classical Gymnasium. Aleph-Alpha-aware adult cohort in the area; teens often aim at Uni Heidelberg or KIT.
International curriculum. Bilingual students common. Our English-first delivery sits naturally alongside the IB / Cambridge classroom experience.
Starnberger-See MIS with IB programme. Many of our MIS students are aiming at international universities and want a UK / US-style portfolio.
You decide. Most German families pause during Sommerferien — Bayern, BW, Berlin, Hamburg all run different dates and we plan around each. Some use them for a focused project sprint instead. Pause any month with one message.
Yes — automatic 24h and 1h reminders via email and (optionally) WhatsApp. Mentors can also send personalised pre-class messages if your child responds better to that.
For adult learners using a Bildungsgutschein from the Arbeitsagentur or a Aufstiegs-BAföG arrangement: we are not currently a zertifizierter Bildungsträger, so direct reimbursement isn't possible. Many of our adult learners are reimbursed through employer kompetenzentwicklung programmes instead — we issue clean USD invoices that German HR teams accept.
Yes — the first 30-minute Probestunde is always free, ohne Verpflichtung, ohne Kreditkarte. If you decide it's not a fit, we shake hands and that's that. About 1 in 10 trial calls don't convert, and we're fine with that.
Ja, jederzeit. Many German parents pop in for the last five minutes to catch the mentor's summary. A few sit through the whole class. We have no problem with either.
Calliope mini and micro:bit are great first-contact tools in primary schools. They get the foundations across. We pick up where they leave off: from "I can make an LED blink" to "I can build a real Python program that runs on my laptop, lives on GitHub, and reasons with an AI."
Yes. We coach the Bundeswettbewerb Informatik (BWInf) all three rounds, the Bundesweite Informatikolympiade (BwInf international qualifier path), Jugend forscht entries, and the Informatik-Biber. Pair with our Olympiad-style mentor on the trial call.
No quiz, no pop-up, no sales pressure. Leave a number, a CET-hours mentor calls within three hours, you decide everything from there.