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Course picks for Veenendaal

Four courses for the town between the Heuvelrug and the Vallei

A child in the Centrum who wants to make a word game, a teenager in Zuidwest curious why a chatbot cannot count the letters in its own answer, a student in Noordoost building a search tool for Dutch text, and an adult in Veenendaal-Oost paying for an AI service by the token. The first lesson costs nothing, for any of them.

Ages 6 to 10

Scratch Coding for Kids

Word games in Scratch where a child splits long words into parts and finds that some split more than one way.

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Ages 8 to 12

Python and AI for Kids

Typed Python that cuts words into pieces from a small list, and shows how changing the list changes the pieces.

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College and adult

Python Automation Course

Text processing and language-model work in Python, including counting tokens, costs and what a tokenizer does to Dutch.

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Adults

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

AI tools used with a clear idea of what a token is, why Dutch uses more of them, and what that means for cost and limits.

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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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Veenendaal today

Peat, wool, cigars, and a municipality founded in 1795

Veenendaal is a single woonplaats, divided by the statistics office into six wijken, Centrum, Noordwest, West, Noordoost, Zuidwest and Zuidoost, and 38 buurten. On 1,942 hectares of land and only 30 of water it houses a published 3,623 residents per square kilometre. The town lies on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug and the Gelderse Vallei, close against the Grebbelinie.

Peat and a name

At the end of the Middle Ages peat came into use as fuel instead of wood, and as in many other parts of the Netherlands the peat here was dug. The name, the encyclopaedia says, must therefore be understood as Veenen-Daal and not as Veen-en-Daal.

Wool and cigars

The wool industry has its origins here, and together with the cigar industry the textile industry shaped Veenendaal until the first half of the twentieth century.

A municipality of its own

In 1795 some citizens of Veenendaal took the arrival of the French armies as their chance to found a municipality of their own. In 1998 another piece of land was taken over from Ede, to build three new wijken in Veenendaal-Oost: Buurtstede, Groenpoort and Veenderij.

Where to cut

One word, cut by three vocabularies

The table uses a toy tokenizer that works the simple way many real ones start: from the left, take the longest piece in its vocabulary that fits, then repeat. The vocabularies are invented for the illustration.

The same rule, three vocabularies, three results for veenendaal
Vocabulary contains	Pieces produced	Number of pieces	Reading
veenen, veen, en, daal, and single letters	veenen \| daal	2	the encyclopaedia's Veenen-Daal
veen, en, daal, and single letters, but not veenen	veen \| en \| daal	3	the reading the encyclopaedia rejects
single letters only	v \| e \| e \| n \| e \| n \| d \| a \| a \| l	10	no reading at all

The rule never changed; only the vocabulary did. With veenen available the tokenizer produces the correct reading, without it the rejected one, and with letters alone it produces ten pieces that carry no reading at all. A real tokenizer's vocabulary has tens of thousands of pieces, learned from the text it was built on, and if that text was mostly English, common English fragments are well represented and long Dutch compounds are cut into more, smaller, less meaningful pieces. Nothing in the process consults the meaning of the word. This is why a model may stumble when asked how many letters a word has, since it may never have seen the letters separately, and why the same message in Dutch can use noticeably more tokens than in English, which matters because models are priced and limited by the token.

Verified local facts

Veenendaal in the national statistics

Figures published for the municipality, with the year of each; the encyclopaedia history; and, at the end, the few calculations this page makes.

Growth

54,027 residents in 1995, 63,032 in 2013, 70,352 in 2025 and 70,779 on 1 January 2026; the figures site gives the growth since 1995 as 31 percent. In 2025 there were 34,964 men and 35,388 women.

A young town

In 2026, 12,556 residents were under fifteen, 8,552 between fifteen and twenty-five, 18,735 between twenty-five and forty-five, 17,208 between forty-five and sixty-five, and 13,728 sixty-five or older.

Households

30,114 households in 2025 with an average of 2.3 people, 10,390 of them single-person and 19,724 of more people, 10,913 of which include children.

Homes and incomes

30,164 dwellings in 2025, 17,797 owner-occupied and 12,367 rented, at an estimated average value of 394,000 euro. Average income was 32,400 euro per resident and 40,400 per income recipient in 2024, with 2.3 percent of residents in poverty.

Schools and origin

25 primary establishments teach 7,165 pupils, about 287 each, and 4 secondary establishments teach 5,845, about 1,461 each; 160 MBO students study at institutions in the town. In 2025, 54,861 residents were of Dutch origin, 3,700 of European and 11,791 of non-European origin, and 62,234 had been born in the Netherlands.

The sums

70,779 minus 54,027 is 16,752. 7,165 over 25 is about 287 and 5,845 over 4 about 1,461. The age groups, the origin groups, the household types and the two tenure groups were each totalled only to confirm they are complete.

Modern Age Coders is not connected with the municipality of Veenendaal or any school, firm or museum in the town, and nothing here implies it. The statistics are those published for Veenendaal for the years stated. The name, the peat, the wool and cigar industries, the municipality of 1795, the land taken over from Ede in 1998 and the town's position come from the encyclopaedia entry for Veenendaal, which gives 70,000 residents on 9 August 2024, a different source and date from the statistics, so the two are not combined.

Signature project

Build a tokenizer, then break it

A learner can write the whole idea in a few dozen lines: a vocabulary, a rule for cutting, and a set of words that show where the rule goes wrong.

1. Write the rule

Start from the left of a word, find the longest piece in the vocabulary that matches, cut it off, and repeat until the word is used up. Fall back to single letters when nothing longer fits.

2. Change the vocabulary

Run the same words through several vocabularies. Watch Veenendaal, and other compounds, split differently each time while the rule stays the same, and count the pieces.

3. Find the failures

Look for words where the cut crosses a real boundary, or where the piece count balloons. Those are the words a language model built on that vocabulary will handle least naturally.

What tokens explain about AI behaviour
Something AI does	The token explanation	Who notices	What to do about it
Miscounts the letters in a word	the word arrived as a few pieces, not as letters	anyone who asks it to spell	ask for the letters one by one, or use code to count
Uses more of its limit on Dutch text	long compounds cut into many small pieces	people paying per token	measure token counts on real Dutch input
Stumbles on rare names and places	an unfamiliar name becomes a string of fragments	users from small towns	test with local names before relying on it
Treats two spellings very differently	a small change of spelling changes every piece	people with typos or variant spellings	normalise spelling before processing
Reads Veenendaal	veenen and daal, or veen, en and daal, depending on vocabulary	this page	know that the cut is not the meaning

Why the smallest step of an AI model deserves attention

People discussing language models talk about training data, size and reasoning, and hardly ever about the tokenizer, the first and simplest stage. Yet everything the model does passes through it. The tokenizer decides how many pieces a sentence costs, which words are seen as familiar wholes and which as strings of fragments, and whether the model ever sees individual letters at all. Languages and names that were rare in the text the vocabulary was built from are cut more finely, which can make them slower, more expensive and less reliable to work with. None of this is visible in a chat window, where the answer arrives as fluent sentences. A learner who has written a twenty-line tokenizer and watched a vocabulary change the pieces of one Dutch word will understand a whole class of AI behaviour that otherwise seems mysterious. Veenendaal gives the lesson a local voice: the town's own name needed an encyclopaedia to say where the cut belongs.

Reliable pipeline

Five habits for working with text and language models

For search, chatbots, text analysis and any tool that charges or limits by the token. Practised in a town whose name splits two ways.

Handling text with the tokenizer in mind
Habit	How	What it avoids	Benefit
Count real tokens	Measure token counts on actual Dutch input, not an English estimate	Budgets and limits blown by long compounds	Predictable cost
Letters by code	Use ordinary code for spelling, counting and exact matching	Asking a model to do what its pieces hide	Exact answers
Normalise first	Standardise spelling, spacing and case before processing	Variant spellings treated as different words	Consistent results
Test local names	Include street, town and family names in every evaluation	Tools that fail on the words users actually type	Tools that work here
Keep the original	Store the raw text beside any tokenized form	Losing what was actually written	Text you can reprocess later

For younger learners

A game of cutting long Dutch words into parts with a pair of scissors on paper, then with a small program. The child finds a word that can be cut two ways and decides which cut is right.

For teenagers

A tokenizer in Python with a vocabulary the teenager builds, tested on Dutch compounds and English words. The stretch: count how many more pieces the Dutch sentences need.

For adults

A measured comparison of token counts for the same message in Dutch and in English, using a real AI tool's counter. Adults often find the Dutch version noticeably more expensive.

This section uses the encyclopaedia's ruling on the name Veenendaal and a toy tokenizer built for the page. It makes no claim about how any particular AI product cuts the word Veenendaal.

Learning ladder

From cutting words with scissors to counting a model's tokens

Where a learner begins is decided in the free lesson by how they handle a real task. Their wijk plays no part, and age alone does not decide it.

Ages 6 to 10

Cutting words

Children split long words into parts and find ones that split two ways.

Scratch Coding for Kids Game Development for Kids

Ages 11 to 13

Longest piece first

Learners write the cutting rule in Python and try new vocabularies.

Python and AI for Kids Maths Through Coding

Ages 14 to 18

Dutch against English

Teenagers measure how many more pieces Dutch sentences need.

App Development for Teens Data Science for Teens

Ages 18 to 67

Tokens and cost

Adults measure real token use and plan AI work around it.

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

Coding and AI

An AI reads every word in pieces. Why should a teenager in Veenendaal learn where it cuts?

Because the town's own name shows that where a word is cut decides what it says.

Every language model works on tokens, pieces of text taken from a vocabulary built before the model was trained. People see words; the model sees whatever pieces the tokenizer produced. For common English words that is usually a whole word or two sensible parts. For long Dutch compounds, rare names and unusual spellings it can be a string of fragments, and the model has to work out the meaning from pieces that do not line up with the parts a Dutch reader would see.

A learner who has written a tokenizer, changed its vocabulary and watched one word come apart in different places understands why a model miscounts letters, why Dutch text can cost more and why local names trip tools up. Deciding when to hand a task to plain code instead, measuring token use on real input and testing with the words people actually type are choices a person makes. The model cannot see its own pieces. People can.

So the case for a child in Veenendaal learning to code in 2026 is not the peat or the wool. It is that someone who knows how text is cut before a model reads it will be needed wherever AI is used on Dutch words, local names and anything outside the common English that its vocabulary was built on. The longer argument is in why a child should still learn to code in 2026.

Delivery

Every wijk of Veenendaal, one class

From the Centrum out to the new wijken of Veenendaal-Oost, the town is compact, and a lesson that begins at home spares every family the trip.

From any of the six wijken

A learner in Zuidoost and a learner in Noordwest open the lesson at the same time, each from home, without a ride through town in the evening.

School words left alone

Groep, brugklas, vmbo, havo, vwo and the profielkeuze are said in Dutch, as a Veenendaal school writes them, while the teaching is in English.

A real first lesson

The free session works through a genuine task. It ends with a suggested level, a course and a weekly slot, and no payment details are asked for.

Matched groups

Five to ten learners at the same point. Veenendaal has 12,556 residents under fifteen, but five who match on subject, level and hour are rarely found in one town, so groups may include learners from other countries.

Regio Midden holidays

Two lessons a week, around eight a month, at a fixed hour, pausing for the regio Midden holidays that schools in the province of Utrecht follow.

Teaching from India

The teachers are three and a half hours ahead of Veenendaal in summer and four and a half in winter, so late afternoons, evenings and weekend mornings all work.

Twenty-nine schools, six wijken, and one group online

Veenendaal has 25 primary establishments teaching 7,165 pupils and 4 secondary establishments teaching 5,845. Five learners matched on subject, stage and hour are much easier to find across all ages from 6 to 67 and many countries than inside one town.

Fees

Fees for Veenendaal

Three prices, and nothing hidden behind them.

First classUSD 0

A real lesson on a real task, finishing with a level and a course.

Group tuitionUSD 100

Monthly, normally eight lessons, five to ten learners at one level.

Private tuitionUSD 150

Monthly, normally eight lessons, one learner and one teacher.

The fee is a single dollar price for every country, with no euro version, so a household in Veenendaal-Oost pays what a household in the Centrum pays. Nothing is due until the free lesson has settled a course and a slot, after which payment is arranged on WhatsApp. Pauses, changes of format and missed lessons are covered on the pricing page.

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Free placement class

Where is the learner starting?

The first task might be cutting long words into parts, a small tokenizer tried with different vocabularies, or a count of how many pieces a Dutch sentence needs.

FAQ

Veenendaal coding class questions

The town, its name, its figures, and the lessons.

Which wijken does Veenendaal have?

The statistics office divides the town into six wijken, Centrum, Noordwest, West, Noordoost, Zuidwest and Zuidoost, with 38 buurten. Veenendaal-Oost includes the newer wijken of Buurtstede, Groenpoort and Veenderij.

How many people live in Veenendaal?

The national count was 70,779 on 1 January 2026, in 30,114 households in 2025. In 1995 it was 54,027, and the figures site gives the growth since then as 31 percent.

How should the name Veenendaal be read?

As Veenen-Daal and not as Veen-en-Daal, according to the encyclopaedia, which connects the name with the digging of peat in the area at the end of the Middle Ages.

What industries made Veenendaal?

The wool industry began here, and together with the cigar industry the textile industry shaped the town until the first half of the twentieth century, the encyclopaedia records.

When did Veenendaal become a municipality?

In 1795, when some of its citizens used the arrival of the French armies to set up a municipality of their own. In 1998 land was taken over from Ede to build three new wijken in Veenendaal-Oost.

How many schools are there in Veenendaal?

The statistics count 25 primary establishments teaching 7,165 pupils and 4 secondary establishments teaching 5,845, with 160 MBO students at institutions in the town. This page rates no school.

What language are lessons in, and when are they held?

The lessons are in English, with Dutch school words such as brugklas, havo and vwo kept as they are. The teachers work from India, three and a half hours ahead of Veenendaal in summer and four and a half in winter, so late-afternoon, evening and weekend slots are simple to arrange. The slot is agreed in the free lesson, and regio Midden holidays are kept.

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Veenendaal?

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 Veenendaal 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 the province of Utrecht and beyond

Across the Heuvelrug, into the Vallei, and up to the hub

The provincial capital has its own page at coding classes in Utrecht, and to the north Amersfoort has one too. Across the provincial border, Ede, from which Veenendaal took land in 1998, has a page of its own, and the whole province is gathered on the province of Utrecht. For machine learning straight away there is the AI and Python Academy, and the complete series is on the Netherlands coding hub.

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Four courses for the town between the Heuvelrug and the Vallei

Scratch Coding for Kids

Python and AI for Kids

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

Peat, wool, cigars, and a municipality founded in 1795

Peat and a name

Wool and cigars

A municipality of its own

One word, cut by three vocabularies

Veenendaal in the national statistics

Growth

A young town

Households

Homes and incomes

Schools and origin

The sums

Build a tokenizer, then break it

1. Write the rule

2. Change the vocabulary

3. Find the failures

Why the smallest step of an AI model deserves attention

Five habits for working with text and language models

For younger learners

For teenagers

For adults

From cutting words with scissors to counting a model's tokens

Cutting words

Longest piece first

Dutch against English

Tokens and cost

An AI reads every word in pieces. Why should a teenager in Veenendaal learn where it cuts?

Every wijk of Veenendaal, one class

From any of the six wijken

School words left alone

A real first lesson

Matched groups

Regio Midden holidays

Teaching from India

Fees for Veenendaal

Six Google reviews, left as they were written

Where is the learner starting?

Veenendaal coding class questions

Which wijken does Veenendaal have?

How many people live in Veenendaal?

How should the name Veenendaal be read?

What industries made Veenendaal?

When did Veenendaal become a municipality?

How many schools are there in Veenendaal?

What language are lessons in, and when are they held?

Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in Veenendaal?

What do Veenendaal coding classes cost?

How many learners are in a group?

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