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Course picks for Groningen

Four courses for a city where a fifth of the population is a student

A groep 4 child in Helpman, a teenager at a school in Paddepoel who wants the data and not the slogan, a Rijksuniversiteit or Hanzehogeschool student who needs Python to be a tool rather than a module, and a parent in Haren going back to work: four doors in one city.

Ages 6 to 10

Scratch Coding for Kids

Scratch from a blank stage to a finished game in three months, in English, for the groep 3 to 6 child in Beijum, Vinkhuizen or Ten Boer.

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Ages 13 to 17

Data Science for Teens

Python, real datasets and a first model, for the teenager who wants to test a claim about their own city rather than repeat it.

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College and adult

Data Science Course

Python, machine learning and deep learning end to end, for the student whose degree assumes statistics and never teaches the code.

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Adults

Python Automation Course

Scripting, scraping and automation for the working parent whose week is a stack of repeated tasks a short program could finish.

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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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Groningen today

The sixth largest municipality, the youngest population, and 61 percent living alone

Statistics Netherlands counted 244,427 residents in the municipality on 1 January 2026, in 145,521 households on 185.53 square kilometres of land inside 197.96 of territory: 1,318 to the square kilometre. In 1995 the count was 196,339, so the city has added 48,088 people, a rise of 24 percent.

An age structure unlike anywhere else

52,431 residents are between fifteen and twenty-five, 21 percent of the city, against roughly six percent nationally for the narrower twenty to twenty-five band. Another 75,681 are between twenty-five and forty-five. Only 27,786 are under fifteen, 11 percent, the lowest share of any place in this series, and 38,793 are sixty-five or over.

Two institutions, sixty thousand students

The Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, founded in 1614 and the second oldest in the country after Leiden, had about 33,000 students in 2025, 8,250 of them international, across eleven faculties. The Hanzehogeschool has about 31,294. The national statistics page gives 61,889 students in higher education for the municipality, a third figure on a third definition.

More secondary pupils than primary

80 primary establishments teach 15,901 pupils and 30 secondary establishments teach 16,469. In almost every Dutch town primary outnumbers secondary by half again, because primary covers eight year groups and secondary four to six. Groningen is the other way round, because its secondary schools draw from the whole north and its primary schools do not.

One municipality, twenty-one places

Since 1 January 2019 the municipality has included the former municipalities of Haren and Ten Boer: 21 population centres in all, the city itself at 206,010 in 2023, then Haren at 18,450, Ten Boer at 4,630 and Glimmen at 1,370. A page that says Groningen therefore has to say which Groningen, and this one means the municipality unless it says otherwise.

Where the learners are

From the Binnenstad to the villages: the shape of a city that empties and fills

The municipality is described two ways at once. The national statistics page divides it into 20 wijken and 160 buurten; the municipality's own encyclopaedia entry gives seven gebiedsdelen and 14 wijken in 106 buurten. Both counts are kept below, because both are published and neither is wrong.

The centre

The Binnenstad inside the diepenring, where the Martini tower, the Grote Markt and most of the university buildings are, and where a large share of the single-person households sit. Term time and July look like two different cities from the same window.

The nineteenth-century ring

The Oosterpoort, the Korrewegwijk, the Schilderswijk and the Oranjewijk: brick terraces built when the city outgrew its walls, now a mix of families who stayed and students who arrive for three years at a time.

The post-war west

Vinkhuizen, Paddepoel and Selwerd, planned in the 1960s around the Zernike campus, with the highest concentration of student housing and some of the youngest streets in the country.

The south

Helpman, De Wijert and the Corpus den Hoorn side: older housing stock, more families with school-age children, and the part of the municipality whose age profile looks most like the rest of the Netherlands.

The north-east

Beijum and Lewenborg, the large 1970s and 1980s expansions across the Van Starkenborghkanaal, where the primary schools are fullest and the under-fifteen share is highest.

Haren, Ten Boer and the villages

Haren with 18,450, Ten Boer with 4,630, Glimmen with 1,370 and the smaller places around them: village primary schools, a drive to the city for secondary, and the part of the municipality where a class that arrives through the router changes the most.

Modern Age Coders teaches into all of them at the same hour, and the placement question is what the learner can already do, never which wijk the postcode falls in.

Verified local facts

Every figure and its office, including three student counts and two ways of dividing the city

The national count, the municipal entry, the two institutions, and the places where the sources disagree.

The municipal count

Statistics Netherlands, provisional, 1 January 2026: 244,427 residents; 145,521 households at an average of 1.7 people, 61 percent of them single-person; 27,786 under fifteen; 52,431 aged fifteen to twenty-five; 75,681 aged twenty-five to forty-five; 38,793 aged sixty-five and over; 80 primary establishments with 15,901 pupils and 30 secondary with 16,469; 61,889 students in higher education; land 18,553 hectares, territory 19,796; density 1,318; 196,339 residents in 1995.

The municipality, described

Its encyclopaedia entry: 244,829 residents on 1 January 2026, the sixth largest municipality in the country and the largest in the north; 197.96 square kilometres, 185.60 of land and 12.36 of water; Haren and Ten Boer merged in on 1 January 2019; 21 population centres, the city 206,010 in 2023, Haren 18,450, Ten Boer 4,630, Glimmen 1,370; mayor Roelien Kamminga since 30 June 2025; seven gebiedsdelen, 14 wijken and 106 buurten.

Two counts, 402 people apart

The national page gives 244,427 for 1 January 2026 and the encyclopaedia entry gives 244,829 for the same date. Both are printed here with their sources; the arithmetic on this page uses the national figure throughout and says so.

Twenty wijken or fourteen

The national page divides the municipality into 20 wijken and 160 buurten; the entry gives 14 wijken in 106 buurten under seven gebiedsdelen. These are two classifications, one statistical and one administrative, not a contradiction, and the page keeps both rather than picking.

The university and the hogeschool

The Rijksuniversiteit Groningen: founded 1614, second oldest in the country after Leiden, about 33,000 students in 2025 including 8,250 international from more than 120 nationalities, about 3,600 academic staff, eleven faculties plus University College Groningen and Campus Fryslân. The Hanzehogeschool Groningen: about 31,294 students and 3,831 staff, formed in 1986, teaching traced to 1798, 18 schools.

Three student numbers that cannot be added

33,000 at the university, 31,294 at the hogeschool and 61,889 in the municipality's higher-education count. The first two are enrolments at institutions, some of whose students live outside the city; the third is a municipal figure on its own definition. The page quotes all three and adds none of them together.

Neither institution, nor the municipality, nor any school named on this page has any connection to Modern Age Coders, and none is implied. They are here because a page that claims to teach Groningen should be able to say what Groningen is made of.

Signature project

1.7 people per household: build the program that finds the two cities inside one average

Two published numbers, one percentage, and a mean that turns out to describe neither of the groups it was computed from.

1. Reproduce the average

The learner divides 244,427 residents by 145,521 households and gets 1.6797, which the source rounds to 1.7. So far the arithmetic agrees with the published figure, which is the point: the number is right. Everything that follows is about what it means.

2. Split on the 61 percent

Sixty-one percent of 145,521 is about 88,768 households, each holding exactly one person, so those households account for 88,768 residents. That leaves 155,659 residents in 56,753 households, an average of 2.74 each. The learner has now found two populations where the source printed one number.

3. Ask what a typical household is

The mean is 1.68. The mode is 1, held by 61 percent. The median household, the 72,761st of 145,521 when sorted by size, also holds 1 person, because the single-person households alone run past the halfway mark. Three measures of the middle, two of which say one person and none of which says 1.7.

One city, one average, and the two groups it is made of
Group	Households	Residents	People per household
Households of exactly one person, 61 percent	about 88,768	about 88,768	1.00
All other households	about 56,753	about 155,659	about 2.74
The municipality as published	145,521	244,427	1.68, printed as 1.7
Any single household in the city	1	a whole number	never 1.7

A mean is a balance point, not a description

The average household size is exactly the right number for some purposes: multiply it by the number of households and the residents come back. It is the wrong number for almost every purpose a person actually has, because household size is a count of people, and no household contains seven tenths of anybody. When a majority of cases sit at one value, as 61 percent of Groningen's households sit at one person, the mean is pulled off the mode and lands in a gap where nothing lives. A learner who has split this one on its own published percentage will ask, of every average they are ever handed, what the distribution underneath looks like and whether the mean is a value any case could take. The split above assumes every resident lives in a private household, which the sources do not state; the assumption is written into the program and printed with the answer.

Reliable pipeline

Five habits for any average that arrives without its distribution

Average class size, average salary, average response time, average basket, average household: each is a single number standing in for a shape. Practised first on the city the learner lives in.

When one number is standing in for a distribution
Stage	Rule	What it prevents	What it gives you
Ask what is being counted	Check whether the quantity is discrete; a mean of a count need not be attainable	1.7 people read as a household you could visit	A mean you know how to use
Find the mode	Look for a value a large share of cases share	A 61 percent majority hidden behind a decimal	The typical case, as opposed to the balance point
Split and recompute	Break the population on the biggest known group and average each part	One number covering two populations	Two numbers that each describe something
Locate the median	Sort and walk to the middle case, do not trust the mean to sit there	A skewed distribution read as symmetric	The middle case itself
State the assumption	Write down what the split assumes and print it with the result	A derived 2.74 passed off as published	A number a reader can audit

For younger learners

Ten cups on a table: six with one bean each and four with three. The child works out the average, gets 1.8, and then looks for a cup with 1.8 beans in it. There is none. Ten minutes, no screen, and the child can say what the average did and did not tell them.

For teenagers

The two published figures and the 61 percent in Python, the split, the derived 2.74, and a bar chart of household size that shows the spike at one. Then the harder question: what would the single-person share have to fall to for the mean to reach two, and is that a plausible city?

For adults

The same split on an average from work: handling time, order value, tenure, class size. Adults usually find a mode they had not noticed, a long tail pulling the mean, and a decision that was made on the mean alone.

The resident count, the household count, the average of 1.7, the 61 percent share, the age bands, the school counts and the student figures are published by the offices and entries named beside them. The 88,768, the 155,659 and the 2.74 are arithmetic on those published figures and are labelled as derived wherever they appear.

Learning ladder

From ten cups of beans to a split that finds two populations in one mean

The rung is decided in the free first hour, and the wijk on the address is not one of the inputs.

Ages 6 to 10

The cup with 1.8 beans

Children compute an average and then go looking for the case that matches it.

Scratch Coding for Kids Coding for Kids

Ages 11 to 13

Mean, median and mode

Learners compute all three on a small dataset and find where they part company.

Maths Through Coding Python and AI for Kids

Ages 14 to 18

Splitting a published average

Teenagers reproduce the city figure, split it on the 61 percent and chart the spike.

Data Science for Teens Python for Teens

Ages 18 to 67

Distributions at work

Adults take an average their team relies on and recover the shape behind it.

Data Science Course Python Automation Course

Coding and AI

An AI will tell a Groningen parent the average household here has 1.7 people. Why should their child learn to take that apart?

Because the number is correct, the source is real, and the sentence it forms in a reader's head is false.

Ask a tool about household size in Groningen and it will return 1.7, properly sourced, because that is what the statistics office publishes. It will not, unbidden, note that household size is a count and 1.7 is not an attainable one, nor reach for the 61 percent single-person share that sits in the same table, nor split the city into the 88,768 who live alone and the 155,659 who do not. Those moves belong to someone who has done the division themselves and gone looking for what it hid.

That is the habit the class installs, and it is why the learner still writes the code rather than reading the answer. The tool will produce the split, the median and the chart the moment it is asked. What it will not do is ask on its own behalf whether the mean it just quoted describes any real case. A thirteen-year-old in Selwerd who has found the spike at one will look for the mode behind an average salary at twenty-three and an average waiting time at thirty-three, and will be the one in the room who says: show me the distribution. Whatever the tools are called by then, that sentence will still be the useful one.

For a Groningen parent, then, the case for coding in 2026 is not that the child will become a statistician. It is that an average is a summary with a shape underneath it, that finding the shape is a dozen lines of code, and that the quickest way to learn it for good is to take apart a number published about the street the child lives on. The longer argument is in whether coding is still worth learning now that AI writes most of it.

Delivery

Live classes for a city that is compact, and a municipality that is not

The city is famously cyclable end to end, but the municipality now runs from Ten Boer to Glimmen, and a winter evening in a village is not a bike ride. A class that arrives through the connection treats both the same.

No evening trip anywhere

The lesson happens at the kitchen table in Beijum, Helpman or Haren at a fixed weekly hour, in the dark and the rain as easily as in June.

English, with the school's Dutch left alone

Teaching is in English, which the 8,250 international students at the university and their families already work in. Groep, havo, vwo and profielkeuze are said exactly as the school says them.

What the free hour settles

One real task at the learner's level, a course chosen from how it goes, and a starting rung, arranged without a card.

Grouped by level, not by postcode

A learner from the Korrewegwijk and one from Glimmen sit in the same group if they are at the same point, and in different ones if they are not.

Twice a week, on regio Noord's calendar

Two fixed lessons a week, usually eight in a month. Groningen breaks up with regio Noord, and the family's weeks away are agreed before the slot is confirmed.

Three and a half hours, then four and a half

The Dutch clock moves in March and October and the Indian one does not, so a Groningen afternoon runs that far behind the teacher's evening. After school, before dinner and at weekends work at both ends.

A city that empties in July and fills in September

With a fifth of the population aged fifteen to twenty-five, Groningen's rhythm is academic, and a family fitting lessons around a student household, a school year and a shift pattern needs a fixed hour rather than a room to get to. The hour is chosen once, in the free lesson, and it stays.

Fees

One tariff in dollars for the whole municipality, and a free hour first

Printed here before anything of yours is asked for.

First classUSD 0

A complete lesson with a real task, a level and a named next course.

Group tuitionUSD 100

Per month, normally eight lessons, five to ten learners placed by ability.

Private tuitionUSD 150

Per month, normally eight lessons, one learner with one teacher.

Everyone outside India sees one figure in US dollars and never a euro one, so Ten Boer is charged what the Binnenstad is. Nothing is paid until the free lesson has fixed the course and the hour, and then it is paid over WhatsApp. Pausing, switching plan and missing a lesson are explained on the pricing page.

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Reviews

Six Google reviews, in the reviewers' own words

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."

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Free placement class

Tell us the level; the wijk is optional

The opening task might be ten cups of beans, the household split in Python, or an average from work that has never been shown with its distribution.

FAQ

Groningen coding class questions

The city, its households, its students, the teaching and the terms.

Why does this page say no household in Groningen has 1.7 people?

Because household size is a count of people and 1.7 is not one. The figure is the right answer to a division: 244,427 residents by 145,521 households is 1.68, printed as 1.7. But 61 percent of those households hold exactly one person, so about 88,768 households average 1.00 and the other 56,753 average about 2.74. The mean sits in the gap between them, and the median and the mode both sit at one. Taking that apart is the project on this page.

Does this page cover the city or the whole municipality?

The municipality, which since 1 January 2019 includes Haren and Ten Boer: 21 population centres in all, 244,427 people on 1 January 2026. The city itself was 206,010 in 2023. Where a figure is for the city rather than the municipality the page says so.

How many students are there really?

It depends which count you use, and the page refuses to add them. The Rijksuniversiteit Groningen had about 33,000 in 2025, the Hanzehogeschool about 31,294, and the national statistics page gives 61,889 in higher education for the municipality on its own definition. The first two are enrolments at institutions, and a student enrolled here may live somewhere else.

We are in Haren, Ten Boer or one of the villages. Is the class different?

It is the same class at the same hour. A child in Glimmen and a child in the Oosterpoort are in one group if they are at the same level, and the drive that would separate them for an in-person class never happens.

Does the teacher speak Dutch?

Teaching is in English. The school's words, groep, havo, vwo and profielkeuze, are kept as the school uses them, but the class is not offered in Dutch and not in Gronings.

What time are classes for a family in Groningen?

A Groningen afternoon is three and a half hours behind the teacher while Dutch summer time runs and four and a half hours behind in winter, because India keeps a single clock. Late afternoon, early evening and weekend hours suit both ends, and the recurring one is chosen during the free lesson.

Is there really more secondary than primary in the city?

By pupils, yes: 80 primary establishments teach 15,901 and 30 secondary establishments teach 16,469, which is the reverse of the usual pattern because secondary schools here draw from far beyond the municipal boundary. It is a good reminder that a school figure counts where the school is, not where the child sleeps.

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Groningen?

No, and none is claimed at Zernike, in the Binnenstad or anywhere in the Netherlands. Lessons are live online and need a laptop or desktop, working audio, a current browser and a stable connection. The telephone number on this page is Indian and is described as such.

What do Groningen coding classes cost?

The first lesson is free. Group tuition is USD 100 a month for two live lessons a week, normally eight in the month, in a group of five to ten. Private tuition is USD 150 a month, one learner with one teacher at the same frequency. Course, format, recurring time and availability are confirmed before payment.

How many learners are in a Groningen group?

Between five and ten, matched on level, pace and goal rather than on age, school or neighbourhood. Private tuition is one learner and one teacher. If no group at the right level is running, the family can take private tuition or wait for the next one to form.

Explore the Netherlands

Out to the province, and up to the country

The city sits inside the province of Groningen, whose page takes apart the earthquake scale; south along the A28 is Drenthe and west across the Lauwersmeer is Friesland. All of them hang off the Netherlands coding hub, and a learner who wants a model that learns rather than a program that runs should open AI and machine learning classes in the Netherlands or the AI and Python Academy.

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The sixth largest municipality, the youngest population, and 61 percent living alone

An age structure unlike anywhere else

Two institutions, sixty thousand students

More secondary pupils than primary

From the Binnenstad to the villages: the shape of a city that empties and fills

The centre

The nineteenth-century ring

The post-war west

The south

The north-east

Haren, Ten Boer and the villages

Every figure and its office, including three student counts and two ways of dividing the city

The municipal count

The municipality, described

Two counts, 402 people apart

Twenty wijken or fourteen

The university and the hogeschool

Three student numbers that cannot be added

1.7 people per household: build the program that finds the two cities inside one average

1. Reproduce the average

2. Split on the 61 percent

3. Ask what a typical household is

A mean is a balance point, not a description

Five habits for any average that arrives without its distribution

For younger learners

For teenagers

For adults

From ten cups of beans to a split that finds two populations in one mean

The cup with 1.8 beans

Mean, median and mode

Splitting a published average

Distributions at work

An AI will tell a Groningen parent the average household here has 1.7 people. Why should their child learn to take that apart?

Live classes for a city that is compact, and a municipality that is not

No evening trip anywhere

English, with the school's Dutch left alone

What the free hour settles

Grouped by level, not by postcode

Twice a week, on regio Noord's calendar

Three and a half hours, then four and a half

One tariff in dollars for the whole municipality, and a free hour first

Six Google reviews, in the reviewers' own words

Tell us the level; the wijk is optional

Groningen coding class questions

Why does this page say no household in Groningen has 1.7 people?

Does this page cover the city or the whole municipality?

How many students are there really?

We are in Haren, Ten Boer or one of the villages. Is the class different?

Does the teacher speak Dutch?

What time are classes for a family in Groningen?

Is there really more secondary than primary in the city?

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Groningen?

What do Groningen coding classes cost?

How many learners are in a Groningen group?

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