In Iquitos a class across town can mean a long ride by mototaxi in the rain, and a course in another city means a long journey. Live online lessons remove both. This page sets out what a child in Iquitos learns about computers at school, which of our courses fits each age, what equipment and connection a class really needs, and a project built on recordings of Amazon frogs, birds, bats and crickets made a short way outside the city.
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Short answer
Learners in Iquitos can study coding from home with Modern Age Coders, live online and in English. Children of 6 start with Scratch games, from about 9 they write Python, teenagers go on to Python projects, data and apps, and adults learn Python and data skills for study or work. A mentor teaches each class live on video, in a group of fifteen to twenty or one to one, at whatever day and hour suits the family. A laptop and a steady connection are enough, and the focus is always on thinking a problem through rather than copying a solution.
Start here in Iquitos
Three courses most Iquitos learners begin with
A first course for young children, one for those ready to type, and one for secundaria. Adult options follow further down.
The 2017 census counted 377,609 people in the city of Iquitos, the eighth largest in Peru. The 2025 census has so far been published by department, province and district, so those figures carry their own year below.
Iquitos, Maynas and Loreto populations by INEI unit
Unit
Population
Census year and measure
Department of Loreto
1,032,771
2025, total population
Province of Maynas
500,640
2025, total population
District of Iquitos
122,521
2025, total population
Iquitos city (urban area)
377,609
2017, census count
INEI figures. The 2025 rows: Censos Nacionales 2025, Indicadores demográficos, Cuadro 1, reference day 15 September 2025. The city row: Perú: Perfil Sociodemográfico 2017, Cuadro N° 1.9, census of 22 October 2017. The city spreads over several districts, so these numbers overlap and are not added.
Districts that share one city
The district of Iquitos holds the old centre, but the city also covers Punchana, Belén and San Juan Bautista. A class at home is the same distance from all of them.
Outside the city, Maynas runs along rivers where families may be hours from the nearest academy of any kind. Wherever a usable connection reaches, so does a live class.
A region that is catching up
MINEDU's report on ENLA 2024 singled out Loreto: "las regiones Loreto y Ucayali son las que más han elevado su promedio en lectura y matemática". The two Amazon regions raised their average scores in reading and maths more than any others.
That progress is a good base for coding. A child who is gaining confidence in maths is ready to see numbers move on a screen and to make them obey a rule.
School and computers
Do schools in Iquitos teach coding?
Programming is not a school subject anywhere in Peru, Loreto included. Families who want it look for it outside the timetable.
What the curriculum asks for
The national curriculum (CNEB) treats digital skill as one of two transversal competencies, number 28, shared by every area rather than taught as its own. Its capacities cover using digital spaces, handling information and making digital objects. No programming language appears in its standards.
In secundaria the regular week runs to 35 hours, with Matemática and Comunicación at 4 hours each, Inglés at 3 and Educación para el Trabajo at 2. Informatics is absent.
Connecting schools first
MINEDU announced in September 2026 that it "pondrá en marcha un plan para conectar 55 000 escuelas públicas a internet satelital". In much of Loreto the first task is a reliable connection, before any question of what to teach on it.
At home the national picture is uneven too. INEI found that in the second quarter of 2026 internet reached 84.7% of homes in Lima Metropolitana, 66.2% of homes in other urban areas and 27.1% of rural homes, and that 36.4% of homes in Peru had at least one computer.
Iquitos school years and our starting course for each
School years
Usual age (MINEDU, 31 March)
Our starting course
What they make first
1° to 3° primaria
6 to 8
Coding for Kids (Scratch)
A moving, talking animal scene
4° to 6° primaria
9 to 11
Python and AI for Kids
A quiz that keeps score
1° to 3° secundaria
12 to 14
Python for Teens
A text game with choices
4° and 5° secundaria
15 and 16
Python, then data or Java
A summary of a real data file
After school
17 and over
Python masterclass or data analysis
A tool for study or work
Ages from MINEDU's Edades normativas (age on 31 March). Hours and competency 28 from the CNEB. Internet and computer shares from INEI's ICT bulletin for the second quarter of 2026. Course choices and first projects are ours.
Connection and device
What does a child in Iquitos need for an online coding class?
Less than many families fear. A computer matters more than a fast plan, and a steady connection matters more than a fast one.
A laptop or desktop. Scratch runs in a browser, and Python can be installed or used online. A phone is fine for joining the call but too small for writing code; a tablet with a keyboard is a workable stopgap for under nines.
Headphones with a microphone. In a busy house, or under a loud rain on a tin roof, they make the mentor's English much easier to follow.
A connection that holds for an hour. Video can drop to audio when the signal weakens; the shared screen and the code stay visible. If power or signal cuts out, a one-to-one class can be moved.
A quiet corner at a regular time. The same hour each week builds the habit faster than any app reminder.
A parent nearby for the youngest. Six and seven year olds do better with an adult in the room for the first few classes.
The free first class doubles as a technical check. If audio, screen sharing or the code editor misbehave on your equipment, the mentor sorts it out with you before anything is paid for.
Language of the classes
Are the classes in Spanish?
No. We teach live, online and only in English, and we are clear about it from the first message.
How mentors make English easier
Mentors are based in India. They use short sentences, show as well as tell on a shared screen, and pause so the learner can answer. A child who mixes Spanish into a reply is understood, and gets the English phrase back to try.
The vocabulary of code is small. Words like print, if, else and repeat come up hundreds of times, and children learn them by using them.
Two skills in one hour
For many Iquitos families the English is part of the appeal. The child practises listening and speaking with a patient adult while building something they care about, which is often easier than a grammar lesson.
EF's English Proficiency Index 2025 puts Peru in its moderate band, with a score of 519 and 52nd place of 123 countries; Iquitos is not among the eight cities it scores. We plan for learners whose English is still growing.
An Amazon data project
How many kinds of animal can you hear in the Amazon sound library?
The Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana publishes a catalogue of its animal sound recordings as open data. It is a perfect file for learning that counting is harder than it looks.
The data
The IIAP describes the dataset, on Peru's national open-data platform, as a "Catálogo de 193 registros de sonidos de fauna amazónica", with birds, frogs, insects and bats among others, recorded at the Estación Biológica Allpahuayo in Loreto. It carries the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence (ODC-By). We downloaded catalogo_fonoteca_iiap_0.csv on 9 November 2026.
Every row has a recording code, a scientific name in the column titulo and, usually, a Spanish common name: Tucán de pecho blanco, Rana Gladiadora, Mielero verde. The catalogue marks every identification as still awaiting taxonomic verification, so our counts describe the file, not the forest.
The question
A ten year old asked: how many different animals are in there? The first answer, 193, counts recordings. Some animals were recorded twice, so Version 1 also counts distinct names with a set.
Then a harder problem appears. Some names are not species at all but labels for sounds not yet identified, such as "Sonoespecie sp3" or "Saguinus sp.", a tamarin whose species is unknown. Those should not count as named species.
Version 1: recordings against distinct namesPython
import csv
names = []
with open("catalogo_fonoteca_iiap_0.csv", encoding="utf-8-sig") as sounds:
for row in csv.DictReader(sounds):
names.append(row["titulo"])
print("Recordings:", len(names))
print("Different names:", len(set(names)))
It prints: Recordings: 193 and Different names: 153.
In scientific naming, "sp." after a genus means "some species of this genus, not yet identified", and labels like sp1 and sp2 number several such unknowns. So a student writes a quick rule: if the second word starts with "sp", it is a placeholder.
Version 2: a quick rule for placeholdersPython
import csv
names = set()
with open("catalogo_fonoteca_iiap_0.csv", encoding="utf-8-sig") as sounds:
for row in csv.DictReader(sounds):
names.add(row["titulo"])
def placeholder(name):
return name.split()[1].startswith("sp")
waiting = sorted(n for n in names if placeholder(n))
print("Placeholders:", len(waiting))
print("Named species:", len(names) - len(waiting))
print("First five:", waiting[:5])
It prints: Placeholders: 23, Named species: 130 and First five: ['Attila spadiceus', 'Chlorophanes spiza', 'Conocephalinae sp.', 'Conocephalinae sp1', 'Conocephalinae sp2'].
Look at the first two names in the list. Attila spadiceus is a real bird with a full species name, and so is Chlorophanes spiza, the Mielero verde. Their second words just happen to begin with "sp". The rule was tested only on the names it was meant to catch, never on the names it had to leave alone.
Version 3: an exact pattern, and a look at the names listed twicePython
import csv
import re
from collections import Counter
names = []
codes = {}
with open("catalogo_fonoteca_iiap_0.csv", encoding="utf-8-sig") as sounds:
for row in csv.DictReader(sounds):
names.append(row["titulo"])
codes.setdefault(row["titulo"], []).append(row["codigo_registro"])
def placeholder(name):
return re.fullmatch(r"sp\d*\.?", name.split()[1]) is not None
distinct = set(names)
waiting = {n for n in distinct if placeholder(n)}
print("Placeholders:", len(waiting))
print("Named species:", len(distinct - waiting))
print("Wrongly caught before:",
sorted(n for n in distinct - waiting if n.split()[1].startswith("sp")))
twice = [n for n, k in Counter(names).items() if k == 2]
gaps = Counter()
for n in twice:
nums = [int(c[-4:]) for c in codes[n] if c.startswith("IIAP-FONO")]
if len(nums) == 2:
gaps[nums[0] - nums[1]] += 1
print("Names listed twice:", len(twice))
print("Gap between two new codes:", dict(gaps))
It prints: Placeholders: 19, Named species: 134, Wrongly caught before: ['Attila spadiceus', 'Chlorophanes spiza', 'Euchrepomis spodioptila', 'Glyphorynchus spirurus'], Names listed twice: 40 and Gap between two new codes: {88: 18}.
Counting the catalogue three ways (our counts)
What is counted
Number
Why it differs
Rows (recordings)
193
Some names appear twice
Distinct scientific names
153
Includes labels for unidentified sounds
Named species, loose rule
130
Four real birds wrongly removed
Named species, exact rule
134
Only sp., sp1, sp2 and similar removed
Names listed twice
40
18 of them as pairs exactly 88 codes apart
Data: IIAP, Registros de la Fonoteca del IIAP: biblioteca acústica de fauna amazónica, Plataforma Nacional de Datos Abiertos, ODC-By. All counts are ours, run with python3 -I. Of the 193 codes, 166 use the newer IIAP-FONO-2026 format and 27 older formats; among the 40 doubled names, the other 22 pair a new code with an old one.
The last line is the detective part. Eighteen names, such as the Tucán de pecho blanco at codes 0116 and 0204, appear twice with new-format codes exactly 88 apart. A gap that never varies suggests a block of entries entered twice, rather than eighteen birds that each happened to be recorded again. It could also be a deliberate second recording; the file cannot tell us which. A careful analyst reports the pattern and asks the IIAP before deleting anything.
Under 8, no computer. Write ten animal names on cards, two of them twice and one as "frog, unknown". How many animals do you have? Argue about the unknown one.
Scratch, 8 to 10. Build a list of names and a button that adds a name only if it is not already in the list.
First Python, 10 to 12. Run Version 2 in your head on "Attila spadiceus" and "Myotis sp.". Which answer is wrong, and why?
Teenagers. Write three names your rule must reject and three it must accept, before you write the rule. Then write the rule.
Going further. Group the 134 named species by genus, the first word of the name. Which genus has most recordings? (In this file, the tree frogs of Boana lead.)
Every age
Which coding course suits my child, my teenager or me?
The main question is age; the second is what the learner wants to make. Our course ages are flexible by a year either way.
Children from 6
Scratch first: pictures, sounds and simple games built by snapping blocks. From about 9, a child types Python and makes quizzes and turtle drawings. Groups are by age, so younger children are never lost in a class of older ones.
Teenagers
Python as the base, then a direction: data, Java, apps or websites. Secundaria students also learn to test their own programs and to explain their reasoning, which is exactly what Version 3 above asks of them.
Adults
Anyone from 18, whether studying at a university in Iquitos or working, can begin with Python and move on to data analysis or AI tools. People start in their thirties, fifties and sixties; age is not the hurdle people expect.
Times
What time would classes be in Iquitos?
At a time you choose. Iquitos keeps Peru time, like Lima, and the mentor adjusts to it.
Iquitos time beside the mentor's time in India, as examples only
In Iquitos
In India
Date in India
07:30
18:00
Same day
09:30
20:00
Same day
12:00
22:30
Same day
15:30
02:00
The following day
18:30
05:00
The following day
Peru is on UTC minus 5 hours throughout the year without daylight saving (tz database, America/Lima). India is on UTC plus 5 hours 30 minutes. The difference is always 10 hours 30 minutes.
A time chosen once stays put, because neither country changes its clocks. You book in your own Iquitos time; the mentor sees the India equivalent. The 2026 school year began nationwide on 16 March 2026, with 6,225,000 students in 53,631 schools, and our classes do not stop for school holidays unless you want them to.
Milestones
How an Iquitos learner progresses
The same six steps for every age. They help us place a new student and help families see real progress.
From blocks to careful counting (our milestones)
Milestone
Often reached
The learner is able to
1. Order
At 6 or 7
Give a character steps in the right sequence
2. Loop
At 7 or 8
Repeat actions and respond to clicks
3. Remember
At 8 to 10
Keep scores and lists that change
4. Write
From 9
Type Python with conditions and functions
5. Count honestly
From 12
Tell rows from things, and distinct from duplicate
6. Test the rule
From 13
Check a rule against cases it must not catch
For parents
Steps 5 and 6 are the Amazon sounds project. They are what separate someone who runs code from someone whose results can be trusted.
Progress reports describe what your child built and could explain.
For learners
Before you trust a rule, try to break it with an example.
Counting rows is easy. Deciding what a row means is the real work.
More courses
Nine more courses for learners in Iquitos
Listed by age. Every course is taught live in English by a regular mentor, in a group or privately.
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Children
Ages 6 to 14
IQT / KIDS / 01
Roblox game coding
Children of 8 to 14 script their own games in Luau.
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by Krish
Fees
Fees for learners in Iquitos
Payment is monthly and set in US dollars. The card is charged in dollars and your bank does the conversion to soles at its own rate, so your statement may show a slightly different amount.
Free first class
Free
no card required
A free first lesson
A small puzzle, a first program and a connection check
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Iquitos families ask
Coding classes in Iquitos: questions and answers
Are the classes in Spanish?
No. Classes are live and online and the teaching language is English only. Mentors keep to short, clear sentences, adjust to how fast and how the learner speaks, and gently turn Spanish answers into English ones.
Can a child in Iquitos learn coding online?
Yes. Children from 6 join live from home in Iquitos, Punchana, Belén, San Juan Bautista or anywhere in Loreto with a usable connection, starting in Scratch and moving to Python at about 9.
Is a phone enough?
For joining the call, yes; for writing code, not really. A laptop or desktop works much better. A tablet with a keyboard is a reasonable start for children under 9.
What if the internet or power cuts out?
Video can fall back to audio while the shared screen stays up. If a class is lost, one-to-one lessons can be rescheduled with your mentor, and group learners can catch up on what was covered.
Do schools in Iquitos teach programming?
No school in Peru has programming as a subject. The national curriculum treats digital skills as a competency across all areas, and the regular secundaria week has no informatics hours.
What time are classes?
Any day, any time, flexible: choose a batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at the hour that suits your family. Iquitos is on Peru time; India runs 10 hours 30 minutes ahead, so 09:30 in Iquitos is 20:00 there.
From what age?
Six, with Scratch. Typed Python from about 9, teenage courses from 13, and adult courses at any age from 18.
Can adults in Iquitos join?
Yes, in adult groups or one to one, usually starting with Python and moving to data analysis or AI tools for work.
How are fees paid?
Monthly, by card, in US dollars as shown on this page; your bank changes the amount into soles. Visitors from India see rupees. The first lesson is free.
Is there a certificate?
Courses that include one end with our own certificate of completion. It is not a Peruvian school qualification and is not issued or recognised by MINEDU or any university.
Elsewhere on this site
Related pages
Further reading for families and adult learners in Loreto.
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