Coding Classes in South Dublin

Course picks for South Dublin

Four courses for Tallaght to Lucan

Pick on what the learner wants to make rather than on age alone. Each begins with a free lesson, taught live, with nothing asked for in return.

Ages 6 to 10

Coding for Kids

Blocks and first programs, where the same thing gets written down twice and the program has to decide which version to believe.

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Ages 13 to 17

Python for Teens

Python through the school years, practised on council files rather than on tidy examples made up for textbooks.

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Ages 14 to 18

Data Science for Teens

One file, two licences, and the question of which one actually governs what you publish.

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College and adult

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

For adults handling reports: checking a figure in a second source before it reaches a decision.

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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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South Dublin today

Three big places, and not one of them is a census town

South Dublin is home to Tallaght, Clondalkin and Lucan, and the census does not publish a population for any of them.

South Dublin in Census 2022, from the council and from CSO tables naming South Dublin
Measure	Figure
Population	301,075, living in 100,364 homes, up 8% on 2016
Area	222.74 square kilometres, as the council states it
Average age	37.2 years, below Leinster at 37.6, Dublin City at 38.6 and the State at 38.8
Home ownership	66.5% of households
At work	Over 137,100 people, with almost 103,700 full time and over 18,700 part time
Average commute	30.6 minutes, exactly the same as in 2016

Why no town figures

The census folds Tallaght, Clondalkin and Lucan into one continuous built-up area with the rest of the city, so none of them appears as a town in its own right in the 2022 tables.

The nearest official breakdown

Electoral areas, which are drawn differently: Lucan at 55,785, Clondalkin at 52,878, Rathfarnham and Templeogue at 52,805, Tallaght South at 43,644, Firhouse and Bohernabreena at 37,643, Tallaght Central at 36,178 and Palmerstown and Fonthill at 22,142.

Tallaght, added up

The two Tallaght electoral areas together hold 79,822 people. That is our own addition of two published rows, and it describes electoral areas rather than the town.

The seven electoral areas sum to exactly 301,075, which matches the council's own published figure to the person, so this is a hierarchy you can rely on. Outside the built-up area, the census does publish small towns: Saggart, with an average age of 30.4 and a third of its people under 15, is the youngest town in the whole Dublin region; Rathcoole holds 5,792 people at 5,270.4 per square kilometre; and Newcastle holds 4,526.

Computer Science in South Dublin schools

Three schools in the first phase

When Leaving Certificate Computer Science began in September 2018, three of the named schools were inside South Dublin.

The three

Coláiste Bríde on New Road in Clondalkin, Colaiste Phadraig at Roselawn in Lucan, and Adamstown Community College on Station Road.

How we placed them

Adamstown is confirmed as South Dublin by the council itself, which describes it as a planned urban development in the north of its area aiming to deliver over 9,000 homes.

What it means now

Only that the subject started here in 2018. No current official list exists, so nobody can tell you from published sources where it is taught today.

For what comes after school, the area holds a Technological University campus of its own. TU Dublin's Tallaght campus sits on an 18 hectare site between Old Blessington Road, Belgard Road and Greenhills Road, has over 5,000 students, and gives its address as Blessington Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24, D24 FKT9. Tallaght University Hospital, at D24 NR0A, opened on 21 June 1998 through the amalgamation of three voluntary hospitals and runs 562 beds, 12 theatres and 14 critical care beds.

A second source, a second answer

The hospital's own page is itself a small lesson in reading carefully. In one paragraph it describes its campus as 31 acres and in another as built on a 35 acre site, and it gives its catchment as both over 640,000 people and circa 800,000. We quote none of those four numbers as fact, only the ones the page states unambiguously. When a source disagrees with itself, the honest move is to use what is consistent and say why you left the rest.

Signature project

One dataset, two licences

Every project a learner publishes rests on somebody else's permission. This one starts there, rather than treating the licence as a formality at the end.

What we found when we checked the same dataset twice, read 16 September 2026
Where we looked	What it says
The national open data portal page for the dataset	Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
The council's own data hub, where the file is hosted	Licence recorded as Attribution ShareAlike
The practical difference	ShareAlike requires anything you build on it to carry the same licence; plain Attribution does not
Which one governs	A question for the publisher, and worth an email before you publish anything derived

Why this is not nitpicking

If a student publishes an app built on ShareAlike data without the matching licence, they are in breach. The obligation is real even though the mistake is easy and the difference is one word.

What a good learner does

Records both readings, notes the date, uses the stricter interpretation until the publisher clarifies, and writes to ask. That last step is a perfectly reasonable thing for a teenager to do.

The wider habit

Any fact worth acting on is worth finding twice. Licences, figures, definitions, dates: the second source is where you learn whether the first was solid.

And while you are in there, look at the rows

The same parking fines file carries thirteen rows for twelve months, because the thirteenth is labelled Total and carries the same columns as the months. It is a good reminder that a file can be clean, current and well published and still need reading before it is summed. Our students note it, exclude it and move on, because the licence question above is the one that actually decides whether their project can be published at all.

The deliverable is a short source note: what the dataset is, where it lives, what each surface says about the licence, what the learner concluded and why. It takes ten minutes and it is the thing that would stand up if anybody ever asked.

Checking twice

Five facts worth finding in two places

A short discipline that costs minutes and prevents the errors that are hardest to undo.

Where second sources earn their keep
Fact	Why one source is not enough	What you do
A licence	Publishing surfaces drift apart, as this council's two do	Check the portal and the host, and use the stricter until told otherwise
A population	Different boundaries carry the same name	Confirm which unit the figure describes before comparing it
An institution's own numbers	Pages are edited in parts and can disagree with themselves	Use only what the source states consistently
A date	A harvest date is not a data date	Prefer a date stated inside the file
A total	Summary rows hide inside detail rows	Look at the rows before summing the column

Younger learners

A game where two signs give different instructions, and the player has to decide which to follow and explain the choice.

Teenagers

The real dataset in Python, plus a written source note covering the licence disagreement and what they did about it.

Adults

The same routine at work, where the expensive mistakes come from figures nobody checked in a second system.

We are not connected with South Dublin County Council, TU Dublin, Tallaght University Hospital or any school named here. Population and area figures come from the council's own published statements and from Central Statistics Office tables that name South Dublin directly; Dublin-wide figures covering all four local authorities are deliberately not used. The Tallaght electoral area addition is ours and is labelled as such.

Living here

D24, the Luas and a quarter of a million commutes

South Dublin is a working area with good transport and long enough journeys to make an evening class in a room a real cost.

How people travel

Of 122,000 commuters, just over 69,000 drive, more than 15,200 take the bus, just over 4,000 use a train, DART or Luas, nearly 6,900 walk and over 5,200 cycle.

Working from home

Over 75,900 people never work from home, while almost 46,600 do at least part of the time, including almost 13,300 for a full five days a week.

Who lives here

The largest non-Irish groups are Polish at 5,739 and Romanian at 4,943, the commonest dual citizenships are Irish-Nigerian at 1,220 and Irish-Polish at 1,176, and 6,517 people moved into the area in the year before the census.

A place with plenty of students

Almost 10,900 third-level students commute within South Dublin, most of them by bus. Between them and the 1,943 Travellers recorded here in 2022, this is an area of very mixed circumstances, and a class that reaches every postcode equally is worth more here than in most places.

Learning ladder

From two signs to a source note

Bands are a guide. What decides a start is the free lesson and what the learner does in it.

Ages 6 to 10

Which one is right?

Programs that meet two versions of the same fact and have to choose, out loud.

Coding for Kids Scratch Coding for Kids

Ages 11 to 13

Where facts come from

Finding the same figure in two places and noticing when they differ.

Python and AI for Kids Maths Through Coding

Ages 14 to 18

Licences and sources

Reading terms, writing a source note, and knowing what may and may not be published.

Data Science for Teens Python for Teens

Ages 18 to 67

Verification at work

Building the second check into a routine so nobody has to remember it.

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

Coding and AI

An assistant will tell you the licence. Why should a Tallaght teenager look it up?

Because the answer depends on which page you read, and a tool will usually read one.

Ask an AI tool what licence a council dataset carries and it will answer with whichever description it has seen. For this file that might be Attribution, or it might be Attribution ShareAlike, and both answers are supported by a real page belonging to the same council. Neither the tool nor the student is wrong; the sources disagree. What the tool will not do, unless asked, is tell you that a second surface exists and says something different.

Checking both takes two minutes and changes what a learner is allowed to publish. It is the clearest possible example of why judgement sits with the person rather than the tool, and it is a habit that costs nothing to build early.

So a South Dublin child learning to code in 2026 is learning to ask where a claim came from, and whether anywhere else says otherwise. That question is going to matter more every year, not less. The longer argument is in why a child should still learn to code in 2026.

Delivery

Tallaght, Clondalkin, Lucan, Rathfarnham or Saggart

This is a densely built, well connected place where an evening class still means a bus and a wait. Online removes both.

No bus, no wait

A learner in Firhouse and one in Palmerstown are in the same class at the same moment, and neither stands at a stop to get there.

The school year as spoken

Junior Cycle, Transition Year, fifth and sixth year: the words your school uses are the words the teacher uses.

A free lesson that teaches

A real task with a real teacher, ending in a clear recommendation, and no request for payment details.

Levels, not ages

Five to ten learners who work at one pace, drawn from South Dublin and further afield so every level has a workable hour.

Weekly and reliable

Two lessons in most weeks, about eight a month, at one fixed time, with breaks planned around exams and holidays.

The clock difference

Our teachers work from India, four and a half hours ahead of Ireland in summer and five and a half in winter.

For the 46,600 who already work from home

Almost 46,600 people here work from home at least part of the time, and almost 13,300 do it every day. In those households the equipment, the broadband and the habit of working over video are already in place, and a live class fits the week without any adjustment at all.

Fees

What classes cost in South Dublin

Three numbers, stated once and not added to.

First classUSD 0

One complete lesson at no charge, ending with a level and a course named.

Group tuitionUSD 100

A month of classes, normally eight, shared with five to ten learners of similar ability.

Private tuitionUSD 150

The same month of classes with the teacher working with one learner only.

Charging is monthly in US dollars at the one rate used outside India, so Rathfarnham pays what Brittas pays and there is no euro list. Nothing is billed until the free lesson has produced a course and an hour, and the pricing page explains pauses, missed lessons and moving between group and private teaching.

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Reviews

Six Google reviews, as our families wrote them

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 about the learner

The first task is chosen to suit: a two-signs game for a young child, a first file opened in code for the middle years, or the licence question for a teenager.

FAQ

South Dublin coding class questions

What families here ask before booking.

Is South Dublin a county?

Not quite. South Dublin County Council is one of the four local authorities in County Dublin, created on 1 January 1994, covering 222.74 square kilometres with 301,075 people at the 2022 census.

What is the population of Tallaght?

The census does not publish one, because Tallaght is folded into the Dublin city and suburbs built-up area. The closest official figures are the two Tallaght electoral areas, which hold 36,178 and 43,644 people, or 79,822 together by our own addition.

Which South Dublin schools first offered Leaving Certificate Computer Science?

Three were on the January 2018 first-phase list: Coláiste Bríde in Clondalkin, Colaiste Phadraig in Lucan and Adamstown Community College.

What is the South Dublin data project?

Students check one council dataset in two places and find that the national portal calls it Creative Commons Attribution while the council's own hub records Attribution ShareAlike, then write a source note explaining which they will follow and why.

Does that licence difference really matter?

Yes. ShareAlike obliges anything built on the data to carry the same licence, and plain Attribution does not. For anyone publishing a project, that is the difference between compliant and not.

Is there third level in the area?

TU Dublin's Tallaght campus, on an 18 hectare site with over 5,000 students, at D24 FKT9. We have no connection with the university.

What hours do classes run?

Afternoons, evenings and weekend mornings. Our teachers are four and a half hours ahead of Irish time in summer and five and a half in winter, and the weekly hour is agreed in the free lesson.

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in South Dublin?

No, and we are careful never to imply one. Teaching happens live over video, with no premises anywhere in Ireland. A learner needs a laptop or desktop, working sound and a steady connection, and the number printed here belongs to India.

What do South Dublin coding classes cost?

The opening lesson is free. After that, a shared place costs USD 100 a month and brings two live lessons a week, about eight monthly, with five to ten learners; one to one on the same schedule is USD 150 a month. Everything is agreed before payment.

How many learners are in a group?

Between five and ten, grouped by ability, pace and goal rather than by age or address. Where nothing suitable meets at a workable hour, we teach one to one instead.

Explore Ireland

The rest of the Dublin area

The city is at Dublin, the north of the county at Fingal and the south-east coast at Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. Inland, County Kildare begins where Lucan ends. Everything is gathered on the Ireland coding page.

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Four courses for Tallaght to Lucan

Coding for Kids

Python for Teens

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

Three big places, and not one of them is a census town

Why no town figures

The nearest official breakdown

Tallaght, added up

Three schools in the first phase

The three

How we placed them

What it means now

One dataset, two licences

Why this is not nitpicking

What a good learner does

The wider habit

And while you are in there, look at the rows

Five facts worth finding in two places

Younger learners

Teenagers

Adults

D24, the Luas and a quarter of a million commutes

How people travel

Working from home

Who lives here

From two signs to a source note

Which one is right?

Where facts come from

Licences and sources

Verification at work

An assistant will tell you the licence. Why should a Tallaght teenager look it up?

Tallaght, Clondalkin, Lucan, Rathfarnham or Saggart

No bus, no wait

The school year as spoken

A free lesson that teaches

Levels, not ages

Weekly and reliable

The clock difference

What classes cost in South Dublin

Six Google reviews, as our families wrote them

Tell us about the learner

South Dublin coding class questions

Is South Dublin a county?

What is the population of Tallaght?

Which South Dublin schools first offered Leaving Certificate Computer Science?

What is the South Dublin data project?

Does that licence difference really matter?

Is there third level in the area?

What hours do classes run?

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in South Dublin?

What do South Dublin coding classes cost?

How many learners are in a group?

The rest of the Dublin area

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