Coding Classes in Howth, Dublin

Courses for Howth

Four first courses for Howth

Choose by age to start; in the free first lesson the teacher checks the level and suggests a different course when one fits better.

Ages 6 to 10

Coding for Kids

Blocks and a spot-the-difference game: which numbers in a list look copied rather than counted.

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Ages 10 to 13

Python and AI for Kids

Python that reads a small table, turns text like 15,049 into numbers and flags the odd ones.

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Ages 13 to 18

Data Science for Teens

Real council files in Python: cleaning, repeat detection, and totals reported with and without doubtful months.

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College and adult

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

For adults who inherit spreadsheets from others and need to know which figures were actually measured.

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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

Counted or copied? Repeated figures in the Howth walk files

The data is Fingal County Council's monthly footfall for its four counters on the Howth walks, from 2019 to 2023, published as open data. The table lists every repeat longer or stranger than a single pair.

Repeated counts in the Howth walk files
Where	When	Count
Baily	May to November 2020, seven months	11,600 each
Baily	August to October 2019, three months	19,796 each
Summit and Balscadden, the same month	July 2023	39,036 on both
Summit and Balscadden, the same month	November 2023	25,316 on both
Balscadden, five years apart	January 2019 and January 2024	24,810 both times

How rare a repeat should be

Across the four counters there are 207 pairs of neighbouring months with a real count on both sides. In 194 of them the count changed, by a median of 3,109 walkers, and only 7 of those changes were smaller than 100. Even if an exact tie were as likely as any change under 100, about 0.04 of the 207 pairs would match. Thirteen do.

What a repeat does to a total

Baily's published total for 2020, 128,271, contains the seven months at 11,600, which make up 63.3 percent of it. The yearly totals in these files equal the sums of their months, so every repeated figure passes straight into the year.

Two trails, one number

In 2023 the Summit and Balscadden columns carry identical figures for July, for November, and for December up to the 15th, at 6,598. Two counters on different paths agreeing to the last walker three times is not something counting produces.

Treat an exact repeat as a question, not a measurement

In counted data, an exact repeat is a fingerprint. It can come from a figure copied in to fill a gap, a formula dragged down a spreadsheet, or a counter stuck on one reading, and the file alone cannot say which. What it can say is that the repeated months are not independent counts. A careful program flags them, reports totals with and without them, and says plainly which months were measured.

The learner's program reads the four CSV files from Fingal's open data site, turns text such as "15,049" into numbers, and treats N/A and N/a as missing rather than crashing on them. It compares each month with the one before, collects exact repeats, searches the whole table for the same figure turning up anywhere else, and measures how small ordinary month-to-month changes get, which is what makes the thirteen repeats stand out. It then separates zeros that mean nobody walked from zeros that mean nobody counted. Summit's June and July 2021 are stored as 0 with the words "No figures due to gorse fires" written into the column for yearly totals, and April to June 2023 as 0 beside "no data". Added up without care, both look like months in which nobody climbed the hill.

Words in a number column

Summit's April and June 2022 hold the text N/A and N/a, and the notes about gorse fires sit in the column meant for yearly totals. A program that expects a number in every cell either stops or quietly skips them.

What the council says

Fingal's own note on these datasets says the figures are estimates of total trips rather than individual visitors, and that distance from the counter beam, overgrown vegetation and occasional malfunctions can affect them. The repeats are a reason to read that note twice.

The newest files

In the 2024 to 2025 files for Summit, Balscadden and Baily only one month has a figure: Balscadden, January 2024, at 24,810, the same as January 2019. The Red Rock file for those years was not yet available to download on 20 September 2026.

Howth, named

Howth by its lighthouse, its station and its counters

Every line is taken from the organisation responsible.

Named places on Howth Head
Place	What its own source says
Howth station	Howth DART Station, Dublin 13, D13 N8K7
Baily Lighthouse	41 metres above high water, range 18 nautical miles
Summit counter	53.370956 N, 6.054537 W
Red Rock counter	53.36833 N, 6.091938 W

The lighthouse

Irish Lights says the Baily light was first lit on 17 March 1814, 41 metres above high water, and now shows one white flash every 15 seconds. Its keepers were withdrawn on 24 March 1997, and Irish Lights records Baily as the last Irish lighthouse to be automated.

The station

Irish Rail gives step-free access by gate and ramp from the road, sheltered bike parking with 7 spaces and 5 lockers, a free car park with 10 spaces, and staffing from 05:45 to 00:21 on weekdays.

The counters

Fingal publishes a position for each counter. Balscadden is the furthest north of the four and Red Rock the furthest west, with Summit and Baily on the southern side of the head.

What this page does not claim

No population is given for Howth, since the page prints only what named bodies publish about the place. The counts are trips past a sensor, not people, and the page does not say how any repeated figure came about; it only shows that the file cannot be treating them as fresh counts.

Learning here

What a Howth learner does across a week

The usual week has two lessons, each led live by the teacher from the first minute to the last.

Children

Children start with block code and puzzle games, spotting patterns that look too neat to be true.

Teenagers

Teenagers take on Python, websites, AI projects and real council spreadsheets like the walk counts, with the checking done in code.

Adults

Adults may start with no background at all; the first lesson settles the course.

Footfall figures are Fingal County Council's open data; the repeat counts, change sizes, tie rates and shares were worked out by us on 20 September 2026. Station and lighthouse details come from Irish Rail and Irish Lights.

Learning ladder

From spot-the-difference to data forensics

Bands give a starting point only; the first lesson fixes the level.

Ages 6 to 10

Too neat to be true

Block-coded games that hunt for copied numbers in a list.

Coding for Kids Scratch Coding for Kids

Ages 11 to 13

Cleaning a table

Python that turns text into numbers and marks cells it cannot read.

Python and AI for Kids Maths Through Coding

Ages 14 to 18

Repeat detection

Neighbouring-month comparisons, tie rates and totals with and without doubtful months.

Data Science for Teens Python for Teens

Ages 18 to 67

Inherited spreadsheets

Deciding which figures in someone else's file were measured and which were filled in.

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

Coding and AI

Ask an assistant how busy the Howth walks were

It will add up the months. It may not look at them first.

Give an AI assistant the Baily file and ask how many walkers used the path in 2020, and it will likely report the published total of 128,271, or add up the months and reach the same figure. The arithmetic is fine. Nearly two thirds of that total rests on one number repeated seven times, and an answer that does not say so hands on a guess as if it were a count.

The learner who has done this project first asks what the table actually contains: which months repeat, which zeros stand for missing data, which cells hold words. After that, an assistant can help write the checks and the two totals, one with every month and one with only the months that look counted.

Adding up a column is easy. Knowing which cells deserve to be added is the skill. The longer argument is in why learning to code is worth starting young.

Delivery

How lessons run for Howth

At a glance.

Live teaching

The teacher leads every lesson in real time and checks each learner's code while it is being written.

Groups by level

Five to ten learners at one level, joining from Howth, other parts of Ireland or abroad.

Two fixed days

The same two days each week, about eight lessons over a month.

Term breaks

Holidays, mid-term weeks and exam time are built into the plan.

At the desk

A laptop or desktop, a microphone, headphones or speakers, and broadband steady enough for a video call.

One-to-one option

Private lessons for a learner who is ahead, needs more time, or can only do hours no group runs.

Wholly online

We have no premises in Howth, in Fingal or anywhere in Ireland. Lessons run live on video and are the same from any home.

Fees

Fees for Howth

Without fuss.

First classUSD 0

A free opening lesson with a check of the learner's level.

Group tuitionUSD 100

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

Private tuitionUSD 150

One month of private lessons on the same schedule.

The US dollar fee is the same for every family outside India and is paid monthly. Nothing is owed for the free lesson, the monthly charge starts with the course, and the pricing page explains how holidays, missed lessons and a switch between group and private lessons work.

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Free placement class

Book a free first lesson in Howth

Send the learner's age and interests, and we will build the first lesson around them. They could leave with a small game, a program that works, or a list of numbers they have caught repeating.

FAQ

Howth coding class questions

Questions Howth families bring to us.

Does Modern Age Coders have a centre in Howth?

No. Lessons are live on video, and we have no premises in Ireland. A learner needs a computer, a microphone and sound, and a steady connection. The phone number shown here is an Indian number.

What is the walk counter project?

The learner reads Fingal's monthly footfall files for the Summit, Balscadden, Baily and Red Rock counters and hunts for exact repeats: 13 among 207 pairs of neighbouring months, where chance would give about 0.04, including seven months in a row at 11,600 on the Baily path in 2020.

Is the page saying the council made the figures up?

No. It shows that some figures repeat in a way real counts would not, and it quotes the council's own note that the figures are estimates affected by conditions and malfunctions. How the repeats arose is not something the file can tell us.

Why is there no population figure for Howth?

District pages here print only what named organisations publish about the place itself, in this case Fingal County Council, Irish Rail and Irish Lights, and none of them gives a head count for Howth.

When do lessons happen?

On weekdays after school and into the evening, and in the daytime at weekends. Lesson times are set in Irish time. The teachers are based in India, which runs four and a half hours ahead of Howth in summer and five and a half in winter, so we only offer times that suit both.

Are there classes for adults?

Yes, for anyone up to sixty-seven, beginners too. After the free lesson an adult chooses between a same-level group and lessons on their own.

Will my child be in a group with other children from Howth?

Not necessarily; we group by level, so the others may be anywhere in Ireland or outside it.

What do coding classes in Howth cost?

The first lesson is free. After that a group place costs 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 cost USD 150 a month. Terms are agreed before any payment.

How big are the groups?

Five to ten learners, matched on level, pace and goals rather than age or address. When no group fits a workable time, lessons are one to one.

Explore Ireland

Around Dublin Bay from Howth

Across the bay, Clontarf has a project on the Dublin Port tide gauge. The Fingal page covers the county, and the Ireland hub lists every other county, town and district.

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Four first courses for Howth

Coding for Kids

Python and AI for Kids

Data Science for Teens

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

Python, AI, vibe coding and agentic coding

Vibe Coding for Teens

Python Automation Course

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Codex & Claude Code

Counted or copied? Repeated figures in the Howth walk files

How rare a repeat should be

What a repeat does to a total

Two trails, one number

Treat an exact repeat as a question, not a measurement

Words in a number column

What the council says

The newest files

Howth by its lighthouse, its station and its counters

The lighthouse

The station

The counters

What a Howth learner does across a week

Children

Teenagers

Adults

From spot-the-difference to data forensics

Too neat to be true

Cleaning a table

Repeat detection

Inherited spreadsheets

Ask an assistant how busy the Howth walks were

How lessons run for Howth

Live teaching

Groups by level

Two fixed days

Term breaks

At the desk

One-to-one option

Fees for Howth

What families wrote on Google, unedited

Book a free first lesson in Howth

Howth coding class questions

Does Modern Age Coders have a centre in Howth?

What is the walk counter project?

Is the page saying the council made the figures up?

Why is there no population figure for Howth?

When do lessons happen?

Are there classes for adults?

Will my child be in a group with other children from Howth?

What do coding classes in Howth cost?

How big are the groups?

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