For the capital, live over video, taught in English

Coding Classes in Riyadh

Riyadh is not short of ambition right now, and the children growing up in it can tell. What most of them lack is somewhere to practise. Modern Age Coders teaches coding the patient way: a live teacher on a video call, a group that never grows past eight, one concentrated hour at a time. Students from age six to working adults learn Python, AI and the habit of finishing what they start.

Lessons are timed for Riyadh evenings, once the school day is over and before the house winds down. The opening lesson is free, and we ask for nothing until you have watched it happen.

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Courses

Nine tracks Riyadh students actually take

Each card below is a class that meets weekly at a set hour, with the same teacher and the same classmates from the first week to the last. Open any card for the complete syllabus, the schedule and the fee.

Kids, 6 to 12 Teens, 13 to 18 College & Professionals

Local context

Learning to code in the middle of Riyadh's decade

Riyadh is where most of the Kingdom's technology money currently lands. Ministries are digitising, banks are hiring engineers, consultancies keep opening floors, and Vision 2030 has put software somewhere near the centre of the national conversation. You have heard all this. Your children, growing up in the capital, absorb it without being told.

None of it obliges your child to become a programmer, and we will not pretend a weekly class settles anyone's career. What the class does is smaller and more durable. A child who codes learns to cut a problem into steps, to be wrong twenty times before being right, and to finish things. Those habits transfer: to maths homework, to science fair projects, and eventually to whatever the adult version of that child decides to do in whatever Riyadh has become by then.

For the adults themselves the argument is blunter. Python, data work and AI literacy keep surfacing in the requirement lists of the capital's banks, government digital services, logistics firms and consultancies. An evening course will not hand you a job, and we refuse to promise otherwise. It will leave you with running code, trained models and a portfolio you can open in front of an interviewer, which is the part of the process a course can honestly control.

Riyadh schools, and where a weekly class fits

Our Riyadh students come from national curriculum schools and from the city's international schools, which between them teach British, American, Indian CBSE and IB programmes. We sit beside all of these rather than inside any of them, because we teach the craft itself. A few practical overlaps are worth naming.

  • Indian CBSE schools: Classes 11 and 12 examine computer science in Python. A teenager who has spent two years building projects with us walks into that syllabus already fluent in the language it uses.
  • British curriculum schools: the IGCSE and A Level computing papers are kindest to students who can write and trace code under pressure, exactly the ability that grows from building projects every week.
  • American curriculum schools: AP Computer Science assumes comfort with real programs, not just terminology. Project work is the most reliable way to arrive at that comfort early.
  • National curriculum schools: digital skills now hold a growing place in Saudi classrooms, and one supervised hour of hands-on building each week multiplies whatever the school period introduces.

Whichever system your child is in, our coursework never collides with school. It runs in the evening, it carries no exams of its own, and its only homework is the project the student already wants to keep working on.

The format

How a class runs, hour by hour

The design has stayed the same for years because nothing about it needs improving in a hurry.

All of it live

Every session is a teacher and a handful of students on a call at the same moment, working the same problem. Students unmute, put their code on screen and get corrected mid-mistake, which is when correction is worth the most.

Eight students, then we stop

Enrolment in a group closes at eight. Under that ceiling a teacher can read faces, spot hesitation and invite the quiet student in the corner to show their screen. Past it, teaching becomes broadcasting.

Timed for Riyadh evenings

Weekday lessons sit between late afternoon and nine at night, Arabia Standard Time, so homework has room on either side. Friday and Saturday carry extra slots for families whose weekdays are already full.

English medium, patient pace

Lessons run in English, which is what most of Riyadh's international schools teach in anyway. Instructors handle many students who switch to Arabic at the front door, so they rephrase freely and never let a nod stand in for understanding.

Projects that survive the course

Students end with software that exists: games, tools, small trained models. When a grandparent asks what the class was for, the child can simply run something.

Nothing owed before the demo

The opening session is free and complete. Enrolment, payment and commitment all wait until after you have seen a real lesson from the inside.

The full ladder

One ladder, from first instruction to working tool

Parents in Riyadh often ask where all of this leads, so here is the whole ladder laid flat. No student climbs it in a year and nobody is expected to. The teacher meets the student in the first session and points at the right rung.

Instructions in orderAges 6 to 9

Sequencing, loops and conditions, met first through blocks and stories the child invents. Success at this age has one measurement: whether the child brings up the class before the parent has to.

The language itselfAges 9 to 14

Typed Python begins, with nothing but a blank editor: variables and conditions first, then functions, then the list and dictionary structures real programs are organised around. Drawing with turtle graphics carries the first weeks, quiz games and small apps carry the rest. Somewhere in this stage the student starts repairing their own errors without calling anyone over, which is the whole point.

Data and honest AIAges 13 to 18

Programs begin touching the world: reading files, calling live APIs, wrangling real data. Then machine learning without the mystique. Students gather and clean data, watch training reshape a model's behaviour, and learn why a confident answer is not the same thing as a correct one. A teenager leaves this stage owning a trained model they can defend in plain sentences.

Tools for workCollege and career

Automation, data analysis, generative AI APIs and the agent tools Codex and Claude Code, all scheduled so the coursework can coexist with a degree or a full-time Riyadh job.

One caution we give every professional: a course can make you capable, but it cannot make anyone hire you. Nobody here will guarantee you a placement, and you should walk away from anyone who does. What we control is the teaching, the code review and the portfolio, so those are what we promise.

Where the fee goes

What the fee actually buys

Teachers, not content libraries

Instruction is a person's full-time job here, not a side gig. Students frequently keep the same teacher across several courses, which means nothing gets re-explained to a stranger.

A ceiling of eight

The ceiling is the point. Everything parents notice later, the confidence, the questions, the pace, follows from a teacher having so few screens to watch.

Built things, not ticked boxes

Every course closes with artifacts: a game that runs, a script that saves time, a model that predicts. Worksheets do not survive childhood. Projects do.

A certificate at the finish line

Completing a course earns a certificate, the kind that slots neatly into a school portfolio or a university application file.

Parents kept in the loop

You receive regular notes on what was covered and where your child stands, so progress is something you read about, not something you guess at.

The demo carries the proof

We would rather show you a lesson than write you an argument. Watch one hour of teaching, then decide with evidence.

Verified reviews

What parents and students say

Because everything happens online, a Riyadh student sits in a virtual classroom alongside families from many countries. The reviews below come from that wider community, each one real and verified, with plenty more on our Wall of Love.

"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 and listen to our suggestions. Overall, I am very happy with the class."

Sonam Oswal

Parent of Dhairya

"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. The projects were challenging and rewarding."

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."

Samridho Mondal

Student

"My son has been attending this class for a few months and I have been genuinely impressed with his progress and enthusiasm. The instructors are patient and knowledgeable. He looks forward to every class and his confidence has grown."

Poonam Rathore

Parent

More Saudi guides

Reading for the rest of the Kingdom

This page belongs to our Saudi Arabia guide, which covers the whole country in one place. If your family is elsewhere in the Kingdom, or you want the version written for younger children, start below.

Coding Classes in Saudi Arabia

The country-wide guide: every course, every age band, and how the format works across the Kingdom.
Coding for Kids in Riyadh

The same city, narrowed to ages six to twelve: what starting looks like when the student is a child.
Coding Classes in Jeddah

The Red Sea edition, for families on the west coast and their own school calendars.
Coding Classes in Dammam

Dammam, Khobar and Dhahran share a single guide written for the east coast.

Fees

Two prices, no fine print

Billing is monthly and in US dollars. The riyal equivalents drift a little as the dollar does, never by much.

Group classes

$40 per month

about SAR 150 per month

  • A live teacher and at most seven classmates
  • Evening and weekend timings in AST
  • Course projects plus a completion certificate
  • Billing begins only after the free demo
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One-on-one classes

$100 per month

about SAR 375 per month

  • The whole hour belongs to one student
  • Timings arranged around your family's week
  • Syllabus speed set by the learner alone
  • Opens with the same free demo
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There is no joining charge, nothing owed for the demo, and no penalty for stopping. The fee you see is the fee you pay.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Do you have a physical coding centre in Riyadh?
No. There is no building to drive to. Every lesson is a live video call between a teacher and a handful of students, so a family in Al Malaz gets exactly what a family in Al Nakheel or Diplomatic Quarter gets. All your child needs is a laptop or desktop, a headset and home internet good enough for a video call.
What time do classes run for students in Riyadh?
Weekday lessons sit between late afternoon and nine at night, Arabia Standard Time, which leaves room for homework on either side. Friday and Saturday carry additional slots. At enrolment you settle on one weekly hour that stays put, so the class becomes part of the week's rhythm rather than a negotiation.
Which Riyadh school systems does the teaching sit alongside?
All of them, because we deliberately teach the craft rather than any one syllabus. Our Riyadh students attend national curriculum schools as well as British, American, Indian CBSE and IB international schools. Students at Indian schools get a direct bonus, since senior CBSE computer science, Classes 11 and 12, runs on Python, the language most of our tracks use.
Can a complete beginner join, and from what age?
Yes, and six is the youngest we take. Nothing needs to be installed or known in advance. The teacher uses the first hour to work out where the student stands, then recommends a starting course honestly, including telling you to wait six months if that is the truthful answer for a very young child.
Are the classes taught in English or Arabic?
In English. That matches how most international schools in Riyadh already teach, and our instructors work with plenty of students who switch to Arabic or another language the moment class ends. They speak at a measured pace, repeat themselves without complaint, and check that an idea has landed before building on it.
What do the classes cost in Saudi riyals?
Group lessons are 40 US dollars a month, which works out to about SAR 150. Private lessons are 100 US dollars a month, about SAR 375. Billing runs month to month, with no joining charge and no long contract, and international cards are accepted. The demo lesson that comes before any of this costs nothing.
What happens after I book the free demo?
A mentor phones you to learn the student's age and any history with code, and together you fix a time. The student then sits a complete one-hour live lesson, and you are welcome to watch. Afterwards the decision is yours alone. No card details are collected and nobody follows up with pressure.

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