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Course picks for Lelystad

Four courses for the capital of the new land

A child in the Waterwijk who wants to build a game that saves properly, a teenager in the Boswijk making an app that must not lose anyone's data, a student in the Stadshart whose whole project lives on one laptop, and an adult in Lelystad Haven whose team relies on one colleague to run the system. Each of them can begin with a full lesson free of charge.

Ages 8 to 12

Game Development for Kids

Games with save files kept in two places, so a child learns early that one copy is no copy at all.

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Ages 13 to 18

App Development for Teens

A real app with a database, backups that are actually restored as a test, and a plan for when a service it depends on goes down.

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College and adult

Python Automation Course

Python automations with timeouts, retries and a fallback, written on the assumption that every outside service will fail sometimes.

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Adults

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

Reports and AI tools mapped for the one supplier, file or person everything depends on.

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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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Lelystad today

The capital of Flevoland, on a municipality that is mostly water

Lelystad is the capital of, and a municipality in, the province of Flevoland, and it is named after Cornelis Lely, the intellectual father of the Zuiderzee Works. The statistics office counted 85,781 residents on 1 January 2026. The municipality covers 76,545 hectares, of which 22,900 are land and 53,645 water, so about seven tenths of its territory is water; the published density of 370 residents per square kilometre is taken over the land. The office divides it into 12 wijken and 137 buurten.

From dry land to a connected capital, in the encyclopaedia's dates
Date	What happened	Links between the new land and Noord-Holland
June 1957	the polder of Oostelijk Flevoland fell dry	the Oostvaardersdijk
28 September 1967	the first residents arrived	still the Oostvaardersdijk alone
1976	the Houtribdijk opened	two dikes
1 January 1980	Lelystad became a municipality	two dikes
1 January 1986	the province of Flevoland was established; until then the Flevopolder belonged to no province	two dikes
1988	the Flevolijn from Weesp was completed, with Lelystad as its terminus	two dikes and a railway

The Batavia and Nieuw Land

The town is home to the reconstruction of the VOC ship Batavia and to the Nieuw Land Erfgoedcentrum, the heritage centre of the land that was once sea.

The airport

Lelystad Airport has been expanded to take a share of the growth of Schiphol, according to the encyclopaedia entry for the town.

The wijken

Among the parts of the town the encyclopaedia names are the Stadshart, the Kustwijk, Lelystad Haven, the Schouw, the Hanzepark, the Warande, the Zuiderzeewijk, the Atolwijk, the Waterwijk, the Landstrekenwijk, the Hollandse Hout and the Boswijk.

One route

Nine years with one dike, and the software version of it

A single point of failure is any one part whose loss stops the whole. The idea comes from engineering, and the Oostvaardersdijk before 1976 is a clear picture of it, whether or not anything ever went wrong.

One route, then more than one, in the polder and in code
The system	The single point	What its loss would stop	The second route
Travel between Noord-Holland and Flevoland before 1976	the Oostvaardersdijk	every road journey between the two	the Houtribdijk, then the railway
A website on one server	that server	the whole site	a second server behind a load balancer
A database with no copy	the one disk it is on	every record, possibly for good	replicas, and backups that are restored as a test
An app that calls one outside service	that provider	every feature that uses it	a timeout, a fallback, or a second provider
A team where one person knows the deployment	that person	every release while they are away	written instructions and a second person trained

The last row is the one people forget. Engineers joke about the bus factor, the number of people who would have to be unavailable before a project stalls, and in many teams it is one. The polder shows why the question is worth asking even when nothing has failed. For nine years every road journey between Lelystad and Noord-Holland went over one dike; the risk was not that it would fail, but that nothing else was ready if it did. Adding the Houtribdijk did not make the first dike stronger. It made its loss survivable, which is exactly what a second server, a tested backup or a second trained colleague does in software.

Verified local facts

Lelystad in figures, with the arithmetic laid out

The statistics office row with the year of each figure, then schools and origin, then the dates from the encyclopaedia. Each calculation the page makes is listed in one place.

Residents

85,781 in 2026, 84,713 in 2025, 75,778 in 2013 and 60,722 in 1995; 42,672 men and 42,041 women in 2025. Ages in 2026: 14,280 under fifteen, 10,645 from fifteen to twenty-five, 23,311 from twenty-five to forty-five, 21,765 from forty-five to sixty-five and 15,780 aged sixty-five or more, which add to the 2026 total.

Households and homes

37,191 households in 2025 averaging 2.25 people, 13,184 of one person and 14,050 with children. 36,017 dwellings, 22,331 owner-occupied at 62 percent and 13,686 rented at 38, summing to the total; an estimated average value of 350,000 euro.

Income and origin

Income of 31,800 euro per resident and 39,500 per income recipient in 2024; 3.7 percent of residents in poverty. In 2025, 65,522 residents were born in the Netherlands; 8,972 were of European and 24,956 of non-European origin.

Schools

42 primary establishments teach 8,013 pupils, about 191 each, and 5 secondary establishments teach 4,382, about 876 each. The office records 1,450 MBO students at institutions in the municipality.

Land and water

76,545 hectares in all: 22,900 land and 53,645 water. The published density of 370 residents per square kilometre is calculated over the land. 12 wijken and 137 buurten.

Every calculation

85,781 minus 60,722 is 25,059, which the site gives as a 41 percent rise since 1995. 53,645 of 76,545 hectares is 70 percent water. 8,013 pupils over 42 establishments is about 191 and 4,382 over 5 about 876. 1967 to 1976 is nine years. The age groups and the tenure groups were added only to check they are complete.

Modern Age Coders has no connection with the municipality of Lelystad, the airport, the Batavia, Nieuw Land or any school in Flevoland, and nothing here implies one. The municipal figures are the statistics office row for Lelystad at the years given. The capital status, Cornelis Lely, the dates of the polder, the first residents, the municipality, the two dikes, the province and the railway, the airport, the Batavia and the wijken all come from the encyclopaedia entry for Lelystad.

Signature project

Draw the map, then ask what happens if one piece disappears

Single points of failure are rarely hidden on purpose. They survive because nobody has drawn the system and asked the obvious question about each part of it.

1. Draw every dependency

On one page, draw the parts a system needs to work: servers, databases, outside services, files, accounts, and the people who know how to run it. Draw the lines between them.

2. Remove each one in turn

For every box, ask what stops if it is gone for a day. Any box whose loss stops the whole system, with nothing to take over, is a single point of failure.

3. Add a route, then test it

Give each critical box a second route: a replica, a restored backup, a fallback, a second trained person. Then switch the first one off on purpose, because a second route that has never been used is only a hope.

Single points of failure that are easy to miss
The single point	Why it is missed	What it can take down	The usual remedy
A tiny open-source package	it is buried deep in the dependency list	every build that includes it, if it disappears	pinned versions and a local mirror of dependencies
An expiring certificate or domain	it works perfectly until the day it lapses	the whole site, all at once	monitoring and automatic renewal
One admin account	it is convenient to have a single login	all administration if it is locked or lost	a second admin and recovery codes kept safely
A single AI model provider	one API is simpler to write against	every AI feature during an outage or a price change	a fallback model and a clear message to users
The one person who knows the system	people are not drawn on diagrams	every release while they are away	documentation and a second person trained

Why the smallest parts cause the largest failures

In 2016 a developer removed a small package called left-pad from the npm registry. It was eleven lines long, and thousands of projects depended on it without knowing, because it sat several layers down in their dependency lists; builds around the world failed until it was restored. The lesson has been repeated many times since, with expired certificates, deleted accounts and outside services that changed or vanished. Large, obvious parts of a system tend to be protected, because everyone knows they matter. The dangerous single points are the small, dull ones that nobody drew. AI systems add new ones: a feature built on one model provider, a pipeline fed by one scraper, an evaluation that rests on one dataset. The remedy is unglamorous: draw the dependencies, remove each in imagination, add a second route to anything critical, and test that route by actually using it. Lelystad offers a calm illustration of the whole idea. For nine years a new town and its neighbours depended on one dike, and the second one did not make the first stronger. It made the connection survivable.

Reliable pipeline

Five habits that remove single points of failure

For websites, databases, automations, AI features and the teams that run them. Practised in a town that went from one connection with Noord-Holland to three.

From one route to more than one
Habit	What to do	What it prevents	What it gives
A dependency map	Draw every service, file, account and person the system needs	Critical parts nobody knew about	A list of what to protect
Backups you restore	Restore a backup to a fresh machine on a schedule	Backups that turn out not to work	Proof that the data survives
Timeouts and fallbacks	Give every outside call a time limit and a sensible response when it fails	One slow service freezing everything	A system that degrades instead of stopping
Two of anything critical	Keep a second server, admin, provider or trained person for each vital part	A single loss stopping the whole	Survivable failures
Practise the failure	Switch a part off deliberately and watch what happens	Second routes that exist only on paper	Confidence that has been tested

For younger learners

A game whose save file lives in one place, and then in two. The child deletes the first copy on purpose, restores from the second, and learns why one copy is no copy.

For teenagers

A small web app that calls an outside service. The teenager switches the service off, watches the app freeze, then adds a timeout and a fallback message so it keeps working.

For adults

A map of what a team's work depends on, including people. Adults often find that the most important single point of failure is a colleague, not a computer.

This section rests on one sentence from the encyclopaedia, that until the Houtribdijk opened in 1976 the only connection between Noord-Holland and Flevoland was the Oostvaardersdijk, and on standard practice in software reliability. It makes no claim that the dike ever failed or was ever at risk.

Learning ladder

From a second save file to a system that survives losing a part

Every learner is placed during the free lesson, while the teacher watches them work on something real. Which wijk they live in makes no difference, and neither does age by itself.

Ages 6 to 10

Two copies

Children keep a game save in two places and restore it from the spare.

Scratch Coding for Kids Game Development for Kids

Ages 11 to 13

What if it breaks?

Learners draw what a small program needs and remove each part in turn.

Python and AI for Kids Maths Through Coding

Ages 14 to 18

Timeout and fallback

Teenagers make an app keep working when a service it uses goes down.

App Development for Teens Data Science for Teens

Ages 18 to 67

The bus factor

Adults map a team system, people included, and fix its single points.

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

Coding and AI

An AI can build a feature in an afternoon. Why should a teenager in Lelystad ask what it depends on?

Because the town spent nine years with a single road connection to Noord-Holland, and software is full of single roads.

An AI assistant will happily write a feature that calls one model provider, stores its results in one database and assumes both will always answer. The code works in the demo, and nothing in it is wrong. What it lacks is any plan for the day the provider is down, the price changes or the database disk fills, because the assistant was asked for a feature, not for a system that survives losing a part. As more products are built on a small number of AI services, those services become shared single points of failure for thousands of applications at once.

A learner who has switched off a service on purpose and watched their own app freeze, then added a timeout and a fallback and watched it carry on, understands reliability in a way that no checklist conveys. Drawing the dependencies, asking what happens when each one disappears and building a second route to anything critical are decisions a person has to make before and after the assistant writes its code. They decide whether a system bends or breaks, and they remain a human job.

The case for a child in Lelystad learning to code in 2026 is therefore not the airport or the new land. It is that someone who asks what everything depends on will be needed wherever AI makes it quick to build systems that rest on a single road. The longer argument is in why a child should still learn to code in 2026.

Delivery

A class that reaches every wijk of a spread-out town

Lelystad was laid out with plenty of space between its wijken, and a lesson that needs no journey suits a town where the Warande and Lelystad Haven are a fair way apart.

Nobody crosses town

A learner in the Warande logs in at the same moment as one in the Kustwijk, each from home. The evening is not spent driving from one wijk to another and back again.

Dutch school words stay put

Groep, brugklas, vmbo, havo, vwo and the profielkeuze are said in Dutch during lessons, just as a Lelystad school writes them, and the teaching goes on in English around them.

A first lesson that counts

The free hour is a real lesson on a real task. The teacher watches how the learner works and ends with a level, a course and a regular weekly time, without asking for any payment details.

Classmates at the same stage

Five to ten learners who have reached the same point. Lelystad has 14,280 residents under fifteen, but five who match on subject, level and hour are rare in any town, so groups may bring in learners from other countries.

Regio Noord holidays

Two lessons each week, around eight a month, always at the same hour, pausing for the regio Noord holidays that Flevoland schools follow.

A time difference that helps

India is three and a half hours ahead in summer and four and a half in winter. After school, the early evening and weekend mornings all remain available across the year.

Forty-seven schools, and a group assembled online

Lelystad has 42 primary establishments teaching 8,013 pupils and 5 secondary establishments teaching 4,382. A coding class still needs five learners who match on subject, stage and hour at once, and they are found far more easily across all ages from 6 to 67 and many countries than in one town.

Fees

What Lelystad families pay

All three prices are below, and there is nothing else.

First classUSD 0

A full, real lesson on a real task, closing with a level and a named course.

Group tuitionUSD 100

Monthly, normally eight lessons, five to ten learners grouped by level.

Private tuitionUSD 150

Monthly, normally eight lessons, a single learner with a single teacher.

The fee is one dollar price for every country, with no euro list set against it, so a family in the Boswijk and a family in the Atolwijk pay exactly the same. No payment is taken until the free lesson has settled a course and an hour, and then it is arranged over WhatsApp. Breaks, changes of format and missed lessons are all explained on the pricing page.

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Reviews

Six Google reviews, exactly as posted

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."

Ritu Kedia

Parent

Free placement class

Tell us what the learner already knows

The first task might be a game save kept in two places, a small program drawn with everything it depends on, or an app that keeps working when a service goes down.

FAQ

Lelystad coding class questions

The capital, its dates, its dikes, its water, and the lessons.

Why is Lelystad called Lelystad?

It is named after Cornelis Lely, whom the encyclopaedia calls the intellectual father of the Zuiderzee Works. Lelystad is the capital of the province of Flevoland.

How old is Lelystad?

The polder of Oostelijk Flevoland fell dry in June 1957, the first residents arrived on 28 September 1967, and Lelystad became a municipality on 1 January 1980. The province of Flevoland was established on 1 January 1986, and the railway reached the town in 1988.

How many people live in Lelystad?

The statistics office counted 85,781 residents on 1 January 2026, in 37,191 households in 2025. In 1995 the count was 60,722, and the office site gives the rise since then as 41 percent.

Why is so much of Lelystad water?

The municipality covers 76,545 hectares, of which 53,645 are water and 22,900 land, according to the statistics office, so about seven tenths of its territory is water. The published density of 370 residents per square kilometre is calculated over the land only.

What are the Oostvaardersdijk and the Houtribdijk?

According to the encyclopaedia, until the Houtribdijk opened in 1976 the only connection between Noord-Holland and Flevoland was the Oostvaardersdijk. Since 1988 Lelystad has also been on the national railway, as the terminus of the Flevolijn from Weesp.

How many schools are there in Lelystad?

The statistics office counts 42 primary establishments teaching 8,013 pupils and 5 secondary establishments teaching 4,382, with 1,450 MBO students at institutions in the municipality. This page rates no school.

What language are lessons in, and at what time?

English, with Dutch school terms such as groep, havo and vwo kept in Dutch. India is three and a half hours ahead in summer and four and a half in winter, so after-school, early-evening and weekend times all work. The weekly hour is agreed at the free lesson and holidays follow regio Noord.

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Lelystad?

No, and none is claimed here or anywhere in the Netherlands. All teaching is live and online and needs a laptop or desktop, working audio, a current browser and a connection that holds. The telephone number shown on this page is an Indian one and is described as such.

What do Lelystad coding classes cost?

The first lesson is free. After it, group tuition is USD 100 a month for two live lessons a week, normally eight across the month, in a group of five to ten learners. One-to-one tuition is USD 150 a month at the same frequency with a single teacher. Course, format, recurring hour and availability are all confirmed before anything is paid.

How many learners are in a group?

Five to ten, matched on level, pace and goal rather than on age, school or address. One-to-one means a single learner with a single teacher. When no group at the right level is running, a family can take one-to-one lessons or wait for the next group to form.

Explore Flevoland and beyond

Across the polder, over the water, and up to the hub

The largest town on the new land has its own page at coding classes in Almere, and the whole of the youngest province, all six municipalities, is on Flevoland. Along the Flevolijn and across the water lies Amsterdam, with its district pages. For a learner going straight to machine learning there is the AI and Python Academy, and every page in the series is listed on the Netherlands coding hub.

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Four courses for the capital of the new land

Game Development for Kids

App Development for Teens

Python Automation Course

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

The capital of Flevoland, on a municipality that is mostly water

The Batavia and Nieuw Land

The airport

The wijken

Nine years with one dike, and the software version of it

Lelystad in figures, with the arithmetic laid out

Residents

Households and homes

Income and origin

Schools

Land and water

Every calculation

Draw the map, then ask what happens if one piece disappears

1. Draw every dependency

2. Remove each one in turn

3. Add a route, then test it

Why the smallest parts cause the largest failures

Five habits that remove single points of failure

For younger learners

For teenagers

For adults

From a second save file to a system that survives losing a part

Two copies

What if it breaks?

Timeout and fallback

The bus factor

An AI can build a feature in an afternoon. Why should a teenager in Lelystad ask what it depends on?

A class that reaches every wijk of a spread-out town

Nobody crosses town

Dutch school words stay put

A first lesson that counts

Classmates at the same stage

Regio Noord holidays

A time difference that helps

What Lelystad families pay

Six Google reviews, exactly as posted

Tell us what the learner already knows

Lelystad coding class questions

Why is Lelystad called Lelystad?

How old is Lelystad?

How many people live in Lelystad?

Why is so much of Lelystad water?

What are the Oostvaardersdijk and the Houtribdijk?

How many schools are there in Lelystad?

What language are lessons in, and at what time?

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Lelystad?

What do Lelystad coding classes cost?

How many learners are in a group?

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