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Coding classes in Trujillo, Peru
Trujillo is a city of universities, and many of its children will one day study engineering, computing or economics a short bus ride from home. This page follows that path from the first Scratch game in primaria to the first year at university, compares the two school days a Trujillo teenager may have, and ends with a project on the electricity bills of Trujillo province.
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In one paragraph
Learners in Trujillo, Peru, can study coding with Modern Age Coders live online and in English. Six year olds begin with Scratch and move to typed Python at about 9; secundaria students go on to Python, Java, data science and contest problem solving; university students in Trujillo add Java, data structures and algorithms; and adults learn Python, data analysis or AI agents. Lessons run with a real mentor on camera, for a class of fifteen to twenty or a single learner, at whatever hour the family sets.
Start here in Trujillo
Where most Trujillo learners begin
A first course for children, one for secundaria students who want more than school gives, and one for those already at university.
How many people live in Trujillo, and in which districts?
More than a million people live in the province of Trujillo, according to INEI's 2025 census, and the city itself spreads across several of its twelve districts. The table separates each unit and gives each its own year.
Trujillo by the unit INEI counts
Unit
Population
Year and source
Department of La Libertad
2,056,445
2025 census
Province of Trujillo (12 districts)
1,090,001
2025 census
District of Trujillo (the historic centre)
307,542
2025 census
District of La Esperanza
211,173
2025 census
District of El Porvenir
113,344
2025 census
District of Huanchaco
92,324
2025 census
District of Alto Trujillo
85,323
2025 census
District of Víctor Larco Herrera
81,901
2025 census
Trujillo city (urban area)
919,899
2017 census
INEI figures: Censos Nacionales 2025, table 1 of the Indicadores demográficos (total population, 15 September 2025), and the 2017 capital-cities table in INEI's Perfil Sociodemográfico (table 1.9). INEI had published no 2025 figure for cities when we looked in November 2026. Rows overlap and must never be added.
A centre and its neighbours
The district called Trujillo holds the historic centre and 307,542 people, but La Esperanza to the north is not far behind at 211,173, and El Porvenir, Alto Trujillo and Florencia de Mora climb the eastern side. Víctor Larco Herrera and Huanchaco run towards the sea.
A family in Alto Trujillo and a family in Víctor Larco live in the same city but may be an hour apart in traffic. Our classes reach both in the same minute.
Smaller places close by
Laredo, Moche and Salaverry, each with between about 29,000 and 53,000 people, sit within the province, as do the small inland districts of Simbal and Poroto. Further out, the provinces of Ascope, Virú and Pacasmayo send many students into Trujillo every day.
What should a Trujillo child learn first, and what comes after?
Begin with play, then with typing, then with depth. The route below is our own, and a learner joins it at whatever point fits their age and experience.
A coding route for Trujillo learners (our courses and ages)
Stage of life
Age
Course to take
What they can do at the end
Early primaria
6 to 8
Coding for Kids (Scratch)
Build a game with a score and a timer
Late primaria
9 to 12
Python and AI for Kids, or Roblox coding
Write a typed program with functions
Early secundaria
12 to 14
Python for Teens
Read a data file and summarise it
Late secundaria
15 to 17
Java for Teens, Problem Solving, Data Science
Solve contest-style problems and test their code
University
17 and over
Java for University, DSA, Python masterclass
Pass course projects and prepare for interviews
Work and later life
Any adult age
Data analysis, AI coding agents
Automate a task at work and check the result
Routes and ages are ours. A learner can skip a stage: a fifteen year old with no experience starts at Python for Teens, not at Scratch.
Ages 6 to 12
Children learn with others of the same age, in short sessions full of making. In Scratch they snap blocks into stories and games; from about nine they type Python and see why spelling matters to a computer.
Ages 13 to 17
Secundaria is where depth pays off. A teenager who spends a year on Python and then Java arrives at university already able to plan a program, test it and explain it, which is what first-year projects actually ask for.
Undergraduates and adults
Trujillo's students often meet Java and data structures in the first years of a degree. We teach them at the learner's pace, alongside the course, and adults use the same classes to move into data or automation.
Does a Trujillo school timetable leave room for coding?
It depends on the school day. Public secundaria in Peru runs on two models, the regular day (JER) and the full day (JEC), and neither includes a computing subject.
Weekly teaching hours in each secundaria grade, two school-day models (CNEB)
Area
Regular day (JER)
Full day (JEC)
Matemática
4
6
Educación para el Trabajo
2
3
Total per week
35
45
Computing or programming
None
None
Source: MINEDU, Currículo Nacional de la Educación Básica, plans of study for secundaria. One teaching hour lasts 45 minutes. Digital competency 28 is transversal across all areas rather than a subject.
What the longer day changes
A student on the full day has ten more teaching hours a week, with six of mathematics instead of four. That is good for maths, and it also means late afternoons are taken. Families on JEC often prefer a coding class early in the morning or at the weekend.
Neither model gives programming its own hours. Some schools use their free-disposal hours for workshops, which differ from one school to the next.
Where coding fits
We do not replace school maths, and we do not teach for school marks. What a weekly coding class adds is a place where the maths a student already knows turns into something that runs, and where a wrong answer shows up on the screen straight away.
That is also why secundaria students in La Libertad who enter the ONEM often enjoy coding: in 2026, the regional education office reported 177,797 secundaria students from 936 schools taking part in the first round.
A university city
Which universities do Trujillo students go to, and what do they need?
Trujillo is home to a large public university and several private ones. Their own figures, reported to SUNEDU and collected by INEI, show how many students study there.
Undergraduate enrolment in 2025 at three Trujillo universities
University
Students enrolled, 2025
Type
Universidad Nacional de Trujillo
14,963
Public
Universidad Católica de Trujillo Benedicto XVI
9,748
Private
Universidad Privada de Trujillo
2,410
Private
Source: INEI, Compendio Estadístico Perú 2026, tables 5.66 (public universities) and 5.67 (private universities), with data from SUNEDU's university information system. The same compendium counts 2,866 new entrants to the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo in 2025. Other universities with campuses in the city are not listed here, and we are not connected with any of them.
Before university
Admission exams are set by each university, in Spanish, and decided by the university alone. We do not prepare students for them. What we can give a student in 4° or 5° de secundaria is a solid year of programming and reasoning, so that a computing or engineering degree starts from strength.
Students who enjoy competition can also try the OPI, the Peruvian computing olympiad run by UTEC, which is free for every secundaria student in the country. Its 2025 rules allowed only C++ in the in-person final and banned generative AI for solving problems.
During university
First-year computing courses at most universities move fast through variables, loops and objects. Undergraduates who fall behind in Java or data structures often need someone who explains the same idea three different ways; a live mentor can do that.
We teach alongside the degree, never instead of it, and we do not write students' assessed work. Our page for university students in Peru sets out the Java, Python and DSA courses in more detail.
Taught in English
Are the classes in Spanish?
No. Lessons are given only in English, live and online, by mentors in India who keep their English clear and simple and slow down whenever a learner needs it.
Trujillo and English
EF's 2025 English Proficiency Index gives Trujillo city a score of 519, which EF calls moderate and which is exactly level with Peru's national score. Lima city scores 555. Many Trujillo teenagers can follow a lesson in English; younger children usually need more support at first.
Mentors give that support: they show before they explain, write key words on the screen, and ask the learner to say back what they understood.
Why English helps a programmer
The documentation, forums and error messages that a university student will rely on are in English. A learner who is used to reading "IndexError: list index out of range" calmly, and working out what it means, has an advantage in any computing degree.
Families also tell us that English practice comes with the code: an hour of explaining a program to a mentor is an hour of speaking English with a purpose.
A real Trujillo project
Who uses the electricity in Trujillo, and what does a typical home use?
Hidrandina, the company that supplies electricity in La Libertad, Ancash and Cajamarca, publishes every customer's monthly consumption as anonymised open data. Our teenagers and adults use one month of it to learn why an average can describe nobody.
The data
The dataset is "Consumo energético de clientes Hidrandina", published by Hidrandina (Distriluz) on datosabiertos.gob.pe under an Open Data Commons Attribution licence (ODC-By), first released on 28 December 2022 and updated on 18 June 2026. We took the July 2025 file on 9 November 2026: 1,046,671 rows separated by semicolons, about 207 megabytes.
Each row is one supply, usually one home or business, with its tariff, district, a "cartera" column that the data dictionary explains as Común (residential) or Mayor (business), and the kilowatt-hours billed. Names, addresses and ID numbers are masked by the publisher, and we use none of them.
The question
How much electricity does a home in Trujillo use in a month? The quick answer is to add up all the kilowatt-hours in Trujillo province and divide by the number of supplies.
Version 1 does that. It also reads the file one line at a time, which matters: a file of this size would fill a school laptop's memory if it were loaded all at once.
Version 1: total, count and averagePython
import csv
supplies = 0
total = 0.0
biggest = 0.0
with open("DatosAbiertos_consumohdna_202507.csv", encoding="utf-8-sig") as bills:
for row in csv.DictReader(bills, delimiter=";"):
if row["Provincia"] == "Trujillo":
kwh = float(row["ConsumosCalculados"])
supplies += 1
total += kwh
biggest = max(biggest, kwh)
print("Supplies in Trujillo province:", supplies)
print("Average per supply, kWh:", round(total / supplies, 1))
print("Largest single supply, kWh:", round(biggest))
It prints Supplies in Trujillo province: 298472, Average per supply, kWh: 186.8 and Largest single supply, kWh: 578105.
The largest supply used 578,105 kWh in one month, more than three thousand times the average. A few supplies like that pull the average up a long way. So the next step is to sort every supply from largest to smallest and ask what share of all the electricity the top 1% uses.
Version 2: how concentrated is it, and what is a typical home?Python
import csv
import statistics
kwh = []
homes = {}
with open("DatosAbiertos_consumohdna_202507.csv", encoding="utf-8-sig") as bills:
for row in csv.DictReader(bills, delimiter=";"):
if row["Provincia"] == "Trujillo":
value = float(row["ConsumosCalculados"])
kwh.append(value)
if row["Cartera"] == "C": # C = comun (residencial)
homes.setdefault(row["Distrito"], []).append(value)
kwh.sort(reverse=True)
top = len(kwh) // 100
share = 100 * sum(kwh[:top]) / sum(kwh)
print("Top 1%:", top, "supplies use", round(share, 1), "% of the kWh")
print("Middle supply of all:", statistics.median(kwh), "kWh")
for district in ["Trujillo", "La Esperanza", "El Porvenir", "Victor Larco Herrera"]:
print(district, "middle home:", statistics.median(homes[district]), "kWh")
It prints Top 1%: 2984 supplies use 36.0 % of the kWh, Middle supply of all: 84.0 kWh, then Trujillo middle home: 107.0 kWh, La Esperanza middle home: 80.0 kWh, El Porvenir middle home: 59.0 kWh and Victor Larco Herrera middle home: 120.0 kWh.
One month of electricity in Trujillo province, July 2025 bills (our calculation)
Group of supplies
How many
Share of all kWh
Largest 0.1%
298
20.4%
Largest 1%
2,984
36.0%
"Mayor" (business) customers
1,044
24.6%
All supplies
298,472
100%
Data: Hidrandina (Distriluz), Consumo energético de clientes Hidrandina, datosabiertos.gob.pe, ODC-By. July 2025 billing period, Trujillo province only. Shares, medians and counts are ours. 21,646 supplies were billed zero kWh that month. The file also contains billed amounts, which we do not use or print.
Three numbers now tell the story. The average supply used 186.8 kWh, but the middle supply, the median, used 84. Fewer than three thousand supplies, mostly businesses and large sites, account for more than a third of the electricity. And once we keep only residential supplies and compare like with like, homes in different districts differ too: the middle home in Víctor Larco Herrera used 120 kWh, in El Porvenir 59. The file cannot say why, whether household size, appliances or something else, and a careful analyst says so rather than guessing.
Ages 9 to 12, on paper. Ten children have 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5 and 200 marbles. Work out the average and the middle value. Which one describes a typical child?
Ages 12 to 14, in Python. Put those ten numbers in a list, sort it and print what share of all the marbles the top child holds.
Ages 14 and over. Change Version 2 to print the share used by the top 10% and the top 0.1%. Where does the curve flatten?
Going further. Count how many supplies in each district were billed zero kWh, and decide whether they belong in the "typical home" figure.
University students and adults. Write the two-sentence summary you would give a journalist, with no number that could mislead.
Class times
At what time can a Trujillo learner have class?
At the hour you choose. Trujillo runs on Peru time all year, and the mentor fits the class around school, university or work.
Peru time in Trujillo and the same moment in India (conversions only)
Trujillo
India
Note
07:30
18:00
Same date
09:30
20:00
Same date
12:00
22:30
Same date
14:30
01:00
Next date in India
17:30
04:00
Next date in India
21:00
07:30
Next date in India
Time zones: America/Lima is five hours behind UTC and Peru has had no daylight saving since 1994 (IANA tz database; INACAL holds the legal hour). Asia/Kolkata is five and a half hours ahead of UTC. The difference is a steady ten and a half hours.
A student on the full school day might take class at 07:30 before leaving home; an undergraduate might prefer the evening after lectures; a working adult might pick a weekend morning. The slot you book stays put all year because neither country moves its clocks, and you always choose it in Trujillo time.
Milestones
Milestones on the way from first game to real data
Our own milestones. They help us place a new learner and help families see what has changed after a term.
From blocks to judging a number (ours)
Milestone
Often around
Shown when the learner can
1. Make it move
Age 6 or 7
Order blocks so a character walks, jumps and stops
2. Keep score
Age 7 to 9
Use a variable that goes up, down and resets
3. Type it
Age 9 to 12
Type Python that repeats, decides and reuses its own functions
4. Read a file
Age 12 to 15
Open a real dataset and count rows that match a rule
5. Summarise honestly
Age 14 to adult
Choose between average and median and say why
6. Scale up
Age 16 to adult
Process a file too big to load at once, line by line
For parents
Milestones 5 and 6 are what the Hidrandina project practises. They are the difference between quoting a number and understanding it.
Each term ends with something your child can open and explain to you.
For learners
One huge value can move an average a long way. Look at the middle too.
Before you compare groups, make sure you are comparing the same kind of thing.
More courses
Nine more courses for Trujillo learners
Arranged by age. Every course is taught live, in English, by a regular mentor, for a group or a single learner.
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Children
Ages 6 to 14
TRU / KIDS / 01
Coding for kids
Scratch games and stories for 6 to 12 year olds, with no typing at first.
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Fees
Fees for learners in Trujillo
You pay month to month. Our fees are fixed in US dollars and your card is billed in dollars; the bank behind your card turns that into soles at its own rate, so the soles amount can move slightly from month to month.
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Trujillo families ask
Coding classes in Trujillo: questions and answers
Are the classes in Spanish?
No. Our classes are taught in English only, live and online. Mentors keep their language simple, repeat when asked and adapt to how each learner speaks, so a Trujillo child still building their English can follow. A word in Spanish is fine; the mentor answers with the English word.
Is there a coding school I can visit in Trujillo?
We have no building in Trujillo or anywhere in Peru. Every class happens live over video, so learners in La Esperanza, Huanchaco, El Porvenir or the centre join in exactly the same way from home.
What age is best to start?
Any age from six. Young children start with Scratch and move to typed Python around nine; teenagers and adults with no experience start with Python in their own age group. It is never too late: some of our learners are in their sixties.
My child is on the full school day (JEC). When could classes fit?
Many JEC families choose an early morning slot, before school, or a weekend. 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.
Can you help a student at the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo?
We teach Java, Python, data structures and algorithms alongside any degree, at the student's pace. We are not connected with the UNT or any other university, and we do not complete assessed work for students.
Do you prepare students for university admission exams?
No. Admission exams are set in Spanish by each university, which alone decides who is admitted. A year of programming and problem solving does build the careful reasoning that any maths paper rewards.
Is there a computing olympiad for Trujillo students?
Yes, the OPI, organised by UTEC and free for all secundaria students in Peru. Under its 2025 rules the final allowed only C++ and banned generative AI. We teach with our own problems and are not connected with the organiser.
What does a month cost, and in what currency?
The monthly fee appears on this page in US dollars and is charged in dollars; your bank turns it into soles. Visitors from India see the fee in rupees. The trial class costs nothing and needs no card.
Will my child get a certificate?
Courses that offer one end with a Modern Age Coders certificate of completion. It is ours alone, with no link to MINEDU, a university or a school, and it is not a Peruvian qualification.
Can adults in Trujillo join?
Yes. Adults learn in adult groups, usually starting with Python and moving to data analysis, databases or AI coding agents, at hours that fit around work.
The trial is a real lesson: a puzzle, a short program and a conversation. By the end the mentor knows the learner's level and comfort in English, and recommends a course and a group.
Classes are live online, with mentors in India, and in English only. For a quick answer, write to us on WhatsApp in English.
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