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Coding courses for university students in Peru
Most Peruvian degrees are taught in Spanish. Most programming is not: the documentation, the error messages, the interview questions at international firms and the papers in a master's reading list are in English. This page is for university students in Peru who want to close that gap while they study: what the university law itself says about foreign languages, what technical interviews actually test, a classic problem worked through in Python, and how live classes fit around a semester.
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Straight answer
Modern Age Coders runs coding courses for university and institute students in Peru: live online classes taught in English by mentors based in India. Students learn Python, Java or C, then data structures and algorithms, databases, web development and AI, at whatever depth their degree or job search needs. Courses run beside the student's own degree, never in place of it, in a group of fifteen to twenty or one to one, at hours chosen around the university timetable in Peru time. The first class is free.
Where students start
Three courses university students in Peru choose first
One for interviews, one for the language most Peruvian computing degrees teach early, and one for students who have never coded.
Students in higher education in Peru who can follow technical English, and those who want to get there. SUNEDU counted about 1.1 million university students in 94 licensed universities in 2021; a small share of them study computing.
Computing and engineering students
Your degree teaches the theory in Spanish. We add the practice employers test, in the language they test it in: data structures, algorithms, clean code, Git and explaining a solution aloud in English.
Students of other degrees
Economists, biologists, accountants and designers increasingly need Python or SQL to handle data. You can start from nothing, at a pace that suits a demanding course load.
International and future master's students
Exchange students in Lima, and Peruvian graduates planning a master's abroad, often need to study programming in English before they arrive. Our classes are in English from the first minute.
Do Peruvian universities require a foreign language?
Yes. As published in 2014, Peru's university law makes a foreign language, preferably English, or a native language part of every undergraduate degree, and asks for it again at master's and doctoral level.
Credits and language requirements in the Ley Universitaria 30220, as published on 9 July 2014
Stage (article)
Minimum set by the law
Language requirement in the law
Undergraduate studies (Art. 40)
At least five years; at most two academic semesters a year
Teaching of a foreign language, preferably English, or a native language, preferably Quechua or Aymara, is compulsory
General studies (Art. 41)
At least 35 credits
None stated
Specific and specialist studies (Art. 42)
At least 165 credits
None stated
Bachiller degree (Art. 45.1)
Undergraduate studies passed and a research paper approved
Knowledge of a foreign language, preferably English, or a native language
Master's degree (Art. 45.4)
Two semesters and at least 48 credits, plus a thesis or research paper
Command of a foreign language or a native language
Doctorate (Art. 45.5)
Six semesters and at least 64 credits, plus an original thesis
Command of two foreign languages, one of which may be replaced by a native language
Source: Ley N.° 30220, Ley Universitaria, as published in El Peruano on 9 July 2014 (copy hosted by SUNEDU), Articles 40 to 45, read on 9 November 2026. The English wording is our translation. Congress has amended the law since 2014, and Article 45 itself says each university sets its own academic requirements in its internal rules, so check your own university's current regulations. This is a summary of the law, not legal advice.
What this means in practice
The law sets a floor, and each university decides how a student proves it: an internal test, a language centre course, or an external certificate. Our classes are not one of those routes and we never claim they are. We do not certify language level.
What we can do is make the language useful. A student who has spent a year explaining algorithms aloud in English, reading documentation and writing commit messages in it, tends to approach the university's language requirement with far less fear.
Why English matters early
EF's English Proficiency Index 2025 gives Peruvians aged 18 to 20 a score of 469, in its "low" band, and those aged 21 to 25 a score of 540, "moderate". EF tests adults who choose to sit its online test, so this is a signal, not a census, but the jump between those two age groups is the university years.
Our own reading of that gap: the earlier a student uses English for something they care about, such as code that has to run, the sooner it stops being a subject and becomes a tool.
What employers test
What do technical interviews test that a degree may not?
Speed and clarity on small, well-defined problems, explained aloud. A good degree builds the understanding; it rarely rehearses the performance.
Who is hiring in English
Lima is home to large international technology employers. The Embassy of India in Lima, for example, reports that Tata Consultancy Services has a sizeable operation in Lima providing over 1,300 local jobs. Employers like these often interview in English, at least for part of the process.
Remote work for firms abroad adds more. Peru keeps UTC minus 5 all year, so for part of the year its clock matches New York's exactly, which makes live collaboration with North American teams practical. That is our observation, not a promise of any job.
What a typical process looks like
Our description, from preparing students in many countries: an online test of two or three timed problems; then one or two live sessions where the candidate solves a problem while talking; then a conversation about a project the candidate built.
Every stage rewards the same skills: choosing a data structure, estimating how the work grows with the input, testing edge cases, and narrating all of it in plain English. Those are the skills our DSA course trains, one problem at a time.
Restate the problem. In one English sentence, say what goes in, what comes out and what counts as a valid answer.
Give the obvious solution first. Say how fast it is. Interviewers want to hear that you know it is slow.
Improve it with a structure. A dictionary, a set, a heap or two pointers, chosen for a reason you can say aloud.
Test the awkward cases. An empty list, a single item, duplicates, and the item paired with itself.
State the cost. Time and memory, in big-O, and what would change if the input were a million items.
A real lesson
What does a class look like? The two-sum problem in Python
This lesson opens our data structures course. Given a list of numbers and a target, find two of them that add up to the target. It is short, it appears in interviews everywhere, and it hides two separate lessons.
Lesson one: the hidden bug
Most first attempts look like Version 1: try every i with every j. It runs, and for the list [5, 9, 3, 14, 7, 12] with target 10 it confidently prints (5, 5).
But there is only one 5 in the list. The inner loop starts at 0, so on its first pass it pairs the 5 with itself. The fix is to start j at i + 1, so each pair of different positions is tried once.
Lesson two: the cost
The fixed brute force is correct but slow: for n numbers it may try about n times n over 2 pairs. Version 2 counts them. On a list of 2,000 numbers where the only pair is at the very end, it makes 1,999,000 checks.
The dictionary version walks the list once. For each number x it asks one question: have I already seen target - x? Looking something up in a dictionary takes, on average, about the same time however big it grows. The same search takes 2,000 steps.
Version 1: every i with every jPython
def find_pair(nums, target):
for i in range(len(nums)):
for j in range(len(nums)):
if nums[i] + nums[j] == target:
return nums[i], nums[j]
return None
print(find_pair([5, 9, 3, 14, 7, 12], 10))
Our run printed (5, 5): the number 5 paired with itself.
Version 2: fixed brute force against a dictionary, with countersPython
def pair_brute(nums, target):
checks = 0
for i in range(len(nums)):
for j in range(i + 1, len(nums)):
checks += 1
if nums[i] + nums[j] == target:
return (nums[i], nums[j]), checks
return None, checks
def pair_dict(nums, target):
seen = {}
steps = 0
for x in nums:
steps += 1
if target - x in seen:
return (target - x, x), steps
seen[x] = True
return None, steps
print(pair_brute([5, 9, 3, 14, 7, 12], 10))
print(pair_dict([5, 9, 3, 14, 7, 12], 10))
big = list(range(1, 4001, 2)) # 2,000 odd numbers
print(len(big), pair_brute(big, 7996))
print(len(big), pair_dict(big, 7996))
Exact output with Python 3. Both methods find (3, 7) on the short list; on 2,000 numbers, 1,999,000 checks against 2,000 steps.
The 1,999,000 is not a coincidence: 2,000 times 1,999 divided by 2 is exactly the number of distinct pairs in a list of 2,000, and the pair we planted is the last one tried. Double the list and the brute force needs about four times the checks; the dictionary needs twice the steps. That difference, quadratic against linear, is what an interviewer means by "can you do better?"
Notice also that the dictionary version cannot make the first mistake. It only looks for numbers already seen before the current one, so a number can never be paired with itself unless it really appears twice. A good data structure often removes a whole class of bugs, not just time.
First. Predict the output of Version 1 for the list [4, 6] and target 8. Then run it.
Second. Change pair_dict to return the positions of the two numbers instead of their values.
Third. Return every pair that adds up to the target, without repeats, still in a single pass.
Fourth. Explain aloud, in under a minute and in English, why the dictionary version is faster and what it costs in memory.
Certificates
Is a certificate from a coding course worth anything in Peru?
It is worth what it proves, and no more. Peru's university law draws the same line for its own short courses: they certify, but they do not lead to a degree.
Three kinds of paper
A degree or professional title. Only a university awards it, under Ley 30220. Nothing we offer is, or replaces, a degree.
A university continuing-education certificate. Article 46 of the law, as published in 2014, says these programmes "no conducen a la obtención de grados o títulos" but do certify those who pass them.
A private course certificate, like ours. It records that you completed our course. It is not a Peruvian qualification, and we say so plainly.
What actually persuades
An exam certificate from the body that sets the exam, such as the Python Institute's PCEP, at least proves a defined syllabus: the Institute describes 35 questions in 50 minutes with a 70% pass mark and no prerequisites. Our PCEP course prepares for it; the Institute awards it.
For most employers, though, a repository of finished projects and a calm explanation of one of them in an interview counts for more than any certificate. That is where we put the effort.
We are an independent online school, not a university or institute. We are not connected with SUNEDU or any Peruvian university, and our courses carry no academic credit. Students who want Python applied to their engineering courses can read our Spanish page on Python para estudiantes de ingeniería, and those focused on Java on Java para universitarios.
Semester and clock
How do live classes fit around a university semester in Peru?
By moving with it. Ley 30220 allows at most two academic semesters a year, so most students have a heavy stretch around exams and lighter weeks between semesters; we plan around both.
Across the year
In the first weeks of a semester, most students keep a steady rhythm of classes. Around midterms and finals, a one-to-one student can slow down or pause; group students can catch up from the mentor's written notes and code, then rejoin.
The break between semesters is the best time for a bigger push: a full project, a block of interview practice, or a new language before the next semester's course needs it.
Being online
University-age Peruvians are almost all online: INEI reports that 97.3% of people aged 19 to 24 used the internet in the second quarter of 2026. Far fewer write code: among Peruvians of 15 and over who did some task on a computer, laptop or tablet, INEI counts 12.1% who had written a program in a programming language, in the same 2026 survey.
A laptop, a stable connection and a headset are all a class needs. Software we use is free, and we install it together in the first session.
Some Peru times and the matching India time (conversions, not a timetable)
Peru time
India time
Where it falls for a student
07:30
18:00
Before an early lecture
12:30
23:00
A long lunch break on campus
14:00
00:30, next day
A free afternoon block
19:30
06:00, next day
After the last lecture
22:00
08:30, next day
Late, for students who work by day
Source: IANA tz database, America/Lima (UTC minus 5 throughout the year) and Asia/Kolkata (UTC plus 5:30), giving a fixed gap of 10 hours 30 minutes. The conversions are ours.
You choose the hour on your own clock and the mentor sees it in India time; since neither country uses summer time, the class does not drift between semesters. Every page we have written for Peru, from children to professionals, is listed on the Peru hub.
A year of progress
How does a university student progress over a year?
Through levels a student can show, in code and aloud. These are our levels, not university credits.
Our levels for university students
Level
Usually reached
In code
Aloud, in English
1. Fluent basics
Month 1 or 2
Loops, functions, lists and dictionaries without notes
Explain a short program line by line
2. Structures
Months 2 to 4
Stacks, queues, hash maps, trees, used for a reason
Say why one structure beats another here
3. Cost
Months 3 to 5
Estimate time and memory before writing code
State big-O and defend it
4. Patterns
Months 4 to 7
Two pointers, sliding windows, recursion, graphs
Narrate a solution while typing it
5. Projects
Months 6 to 9
A tested project in Git that someone else can run
Walk an interviewer through its design
6. Interviews
Months 8 to 12
Solve two timed problems in under an hour
Hold a full mock interview in English
For students
Level 2 is the two-sum lesson. If you reached for a dictionary without being told, you are already there.
Record yourself explaining a solution once a week. The first recording is hard to listen to; the tenth is not.
For the job search
Levels 5 and 6 are what most interviews look for. A project you can explain beats three you cannot.
Keep your code in a public repository with a short English README. It is often the first thing a reviewer opens.
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Fees
Fees for university students in Peru
Billing is in US dollars, to your card, monthly. Whatever reaches your statement in soles depends on your card issuer's exchange rate that day, so it may shift slightly between months.
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Students ask
What university students in Peru ask about our coding courses
Are the classes in Spanish?
No. Every class is live, online and in English only. Mentors speak clearly and adapt to your pace and accent, and every step is visible on the shared screen. Technical English is part of what you gain; there is a Spanish-language page about the courses, but the teaching itself is always in English.
Do I need to study computing to join?
No. Many of our students study engineering, economics, sciences or business. Beginners start with Python from zero; students who already program start with data structures and algorithms or with Java.
Will these courses count towards my degree?
No. We are not a university and are not connected with SUNEDU or any Peruvian university, so our courses carry no academic credit. They run beside your degree. You receive our own certificate of completion, which is not a Peruvian qualification.
Does a Peruvian degree require English?
Ley 30220, as published in 2014, makes a foreign language, preferably English, or a native language compulsory in undergraduate studies and part of the requirements for a bachiller. Each university decides how students prove it. Our classes do not certify language level; they give you daily practice in using it.
When are the classes in Peru time?
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. Peru sits five hours behind UTC all year and India five and a half ahead, so 19:30 in Peru is 06:00 the next morning in India.
Can I pause during exams?
Yes. One-to-one students can reduce or pause classes around midterms and finals. Group students pay monthly and can stop for a month and come back; the mentor keeps notes and code so nothing is lost.
Will you prepare me for technical interviews?
Yes. Our data structures and algorithms course is built around interview-style problems explained aloud in English, and later levels include timed mock interviews. We make no promise of a job or salary; we train the skills interviews test.
Should I learn Python or Java first?
Python if you have never programmed or study a non-computing degree. Java if your university course already uses it or you are aiming at back-end roles in larger companies. The ideas transfer either way, and the free class helps decide.
Can I use AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT?
Yes, for students aged 18 and over, within each company's terms. We teach you to solve the problem first and then use AI to review and question your code, because interviews and exams test what you can do without it.
How do I pay from Peru?
By card, each month, in US dollars. Your bank converts the amount into soles at its own rate, so the figure can vary a little from month to month. The first class is free and needs no card.
The first class is a working session: you and a mentor solve one problem together, and the mentor sees how you reason, how much you already know and how comfortable you are explaining in English. Then you get a recommendation: which course, group or one to one, and which hours fit your semester.
Prefer to read first? How we teach describes a class in detail, and the course list has every syllabus.
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