C++ for Kids
A serious language, taught at a child's pace, with a game or puzzle at the end of every lesson.
Syllabus updated October 2026
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- Education for everyoneLearners aged 6 to 67, from first-time beginners to working professionals, in 25+ countries.
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Book a Priority DemoHow long this course takes
This course runs 6 months (24 weeks) at 2 live classes/week + 1-2 hours practice. The range allows for background and pace: a complete beginner uses the full span, and a student with prior knowledge finishes sooner. The syllabus below is planned to the shorter end, with margin kept for revision.
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At a glance
- Who it is for
- Complete beginner to text coding, ages 9 to 12.
- Prerequisites
- None required. Children who have tried Scratch or similar often settle in faster, but it is not needed
- Format
- Live, interactive classes with a real instructor, never pre-recorded videos. Live classes run about one hour.
- Language
- English or Hindi, depending on the batch.
- Duration
- 6 months (24 weeks)
- Weekly commitment
- 2 live classes/week + 1-2 hours practice
- Class size
- Group batches of 15 to 20 students, mini batches of up to 6, or 1-on-1.
- Certificate
- Certificate from Modern Age Coders, awarded on passing the final assessment
- Watch first
- Free recordings of real classes for ages 6 to 12, free with a Google sign-in. These recordings show how we teach, not the exact syllabus of this course.
- Live demo
- Optional. Enrol directly on this page, or book a Priority Demo: a full live class of about 45 to 60 minutes with a mentor reserved for you.
- Questions
- WhatsApp +91 91233 66161 or email connect@modernagecoders.com.
How we teach
Deep understanding. Real projects. Expert guidance.
Learn coding, AI and maths through careful explanations, practical demonstrations, and hands-on problem-solving. Our instructors guide you from the foundations to advanced ideas, helping you understand what happens, why it happens, and how to build it yourself.
You will explore concepts step by step, write and improve code, investigate mistakes, ask questions, and apply your knowledge to meaningful projects. Lessons are designed around active participation, thoughtful feedback, and growing independence.
Expert-led live teaching, with practical participation built into every lesson.
- Students explain their thinking.
- Instructors demonstrate, then guide practice.
- Learners code, solve, or build during lessons.
- Questions and misconceptions get attention.
- Assignments receive useful feedback.
- Progress is checked before advancing.
How to join C++ for Kids: First Real Code, Games and Puzzles (Ages 9-12)
Four steps from this page to the first class. See a full class first with a Priority Demo, or choose a plan and enrol today.
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How enrolment works
See a full class first (optional)
Book a Priority Demo: a live class of about 45 to 60 minutes with a mentor reserved for you, today or tomorrow. After the class the mentor sends a written skill report and a personal learning roadmap on WhatsApp. If you enrol, the demo fee is adjusted against your first month's fee. Share your demo Order ID with us on WhatsApp and we take it off.
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After payment, message us on WhatsApp or call +91 91233 66161 with the student's name, the course and your preferred time slot. We confirm the batch, send the class link and schedule the first class at your chosen time.
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Ask about class timings, the right level for your child, what they need to know already, or payment. Parents and adult learners can reach us on WhatsApp, by email or by phone.
Program Overview
C++ has a reputation for being hard, and for adults learning alone it can be. For a 9 to 12-year-old with a patient teacher, it is something else: a language that makes the computer's thinking visible. Every variable has a type, every line ends with a semicolon, and the compiler says exactly what it did not understand. Children who learn this way pick up habits of precision that make every later language easier.
This 6-month live course is written for that age. It starts with what a program is and what a compiler does, then builds one idea at a time: printing and input, variables and arithmetic, decisions with if and else, loops, functions, lists with vectors, strings and finally grouping data with structs. Each idea arrives inside something a child wants to make, such as a times-table trainer, a number guessing game, a secret code machine, a pet simulator, tic-tac-toe or a maze. Topics that need more maturity, like pointers and memory management, are left for our C++ for Teens course.
The final month introduces the kind of short puzzle problems used in programming contests. USACO, the USA Computing Olympiad, accepts C++ solutions and starts every new participant in its Bronze division, so students finish with a clear picture of what that next step looks like if they enjoy it. Classes are live and small enough for the teacher to read every child's code, and every month ends with a short check so parents can see real progress.
What Makes This Program Different
- Written for ages 9 to 12: one new idea at a time, explained with pictures and everyday examples before any syntax
- A game or puzzle in every lesson, so practice feels like play while the habits stay rigorous
- Compiler errors taught as clues, not failures: children learn to read them and fix their own code
- Pointers and manual memory left for later on purpose, so younger students build confidence before complexity
- A first taste of contest-style problem solving in the final month, with USACO Bronze as a visible next step
- A clear bridge to our C++ for Teens course for students who want to keep going
Your Learning Journey
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Detailed Course Curriculum
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Topics Covered
- What a program is: instructions a computer follows exactly
- What a compiler does, explained as a translator
- The shape of a C++ program: include, main, braces and semicolons
- Printing words and numbers with cout
- Comments as notes to your future self
- Reading a compiler error and finding the line it points to
Projects You Build
- Name banner: a program that prints a decorated banner with the student's name and favourite things
Practice & Assignments
Write three short programs that print a joke, a poem and a box drawn with symbols
Topics Covered
- Variables as labelled boxes, and the types int, double, char and string
- Reading input with cin
- Plus, minus, times and divide in code
- Why 7 / 2 gives 3 with whole numbers, and what % does
- Updating a variable: score = score + 10 and the shortcut +=
- Choosing clear variable names
Projects You Build
- Pocket calculator and age-in-days converter that ask the user for numbers and print answers
Practice & Assignments
Build a pizza-sharing program that works out slices each and slices left over using / and %
Assessment
Month 1 check: write a short input and arithmetic program from a plain-English description
Topics Covered
- Comparing values with ==, !=, <, >, <= and >=
- if, else if and else
- Combining conditions with and, or and not
- The classic mistake of = instead of ==
- Tracing a program by hand with a table
- Planning decisions with a simple flowchart
Projects You Build
- Quiz show: a five-question quiz that keeps score and gives a message based on the result
Practice & Assignments
Write a rock, paper, scissors judge that decides the winner from two typed choices
Topics Covered
- while loops and the idea of repeating until something changes
- for loops for counting
- Loop counters, totals and running scores
- Avoiding loops that never end
- Drawing star patterns and triangles with loops
- break and continue, used sparingly
Projects You Build
- Times-table trainer and a number guessing game that says higher or lower until the player wins
Practice & Assignments
Print the 1 to 12 times tables neatly, then a staircase of stars of any height the user chooses
Assessment
Phase 1 assessment: a loop and decision program built in class, plus a short explanation of how it works
Topics Covered
- Why we split programs into functions
- Writing a function, calling it and passing values in
- Returning an answer from a function
- void functions that just do something
- Local variables and why they stay inside their function
- Testing a function with a few known answers
Projects You Build
- Shape helper: functions that draw squares and triangles and work out area and perimeter
Practice & Assignments
Rewrite the quiz show from month 2 so each question is one function call
Topics Covered
- Storing many values in a vector
- Adding items with push_back and reading them by position
- Looping over a vector to total, count and find the biggest
- Positions start at zero, and what happens past the end
- Sorting a list with sort
- Choosing between a single variable and a list
Projects You Build
- High score board: enter scores, sort them and print the top five with medals beside them
Practice & Assignments
Store a week of temperatures and print the warmest day, the coldest day and the average
Assessment
Month 3 check: a function and vector task solved from a written problem
Topics Covered
- Strings as lists of characters
- Length, indexing and looping through a string
- Changing letters to upper or lower case
- Characters as numbers underneath
- Counting vowels, reversing words and checking palindromes
- Reading a full line of text with getline
Projects You Build
- Secret code machine: a shift cipher that encodes and decodes messages between friends
Practice & Assignments
Write a word game that tells the player how many letters their guess shares with a secret word
Topics Covered
- Why related values belong together
- Defining a struct with fields such as name, hunger and happiness
- Creating and changing struct values
- A vector of structs for a class list or a team
- Passing a struct to a function
- Designing data before writing code
Projects You Build
- Virtual pet: a pet that gets hungry and bored over time and responds to feeding and play commands
Practice & Assignments
Extend the pet so the player can look after three pets stored in one vector
Assessment
Phase 2 assessment: a small program that uses functions, a vector and a struct together
Topics Covered
- Making random numbers for dice, cards and surprises
- Planning a game as rooms, choices and items
- A game loop that runs until the player wins or quits
- Keeping track of health, gold and inventory
- Splitting a bigger program into many small functions
- Testing every path through the game
Projects You Build
- Dungeon adventure: a text adventure with rooms, random encounters, an inventory and a win condition
Practice & Assignments
Add two new rooms and one new item, then ask someone at home to play it
Topics Covered
- A grid as a vector of vectors
- Nested loops to print and search a grid
- Rows, columns and checking neighbours
- Checking for three in a row
- Moving a player around a maze with letters
- Keeping a grid game fair and bug-free
Projects You Build
- Tic-tac-toe for two players and a maze game where the player finds the exit
Practice & Assignments
Add a move counter to the maze and a replay option to tic-tac-toe
Assessment
Month 5 check: a grid task built from a short written specification
Topics Covered
- Reading a puzzle problem: input, output and the example cases
- Working out the answer by hand before coding
- Patterns that keep coming up: counting, finding the largest, simulating step by step
- Testing with small cases and tricky edge cases
- What USACO is and how its Bronze division works
- Staying calm when the first idea does not work
Projects You Build
- Puzzle notebook: eight short contest-style problems solved, each with a sentence on the idea behind it
Practice & Assignments
Solve two puzzle problems a week and write down one mistake and how you found it
Topics Covered
- Choosing a project idea that fits two weeks
- Planning the data, the functions and the game loop
- Building in small steps and testing as you go
- Asking for feedback and improving the project
- Presenting the program and explaining one clever part
- Next steps: C++ for Teens, Python or contest practice
Projects You Build
- Capstone: an original game or tool planned, built and presented by the student
Practice & Assignments
Write a short guide that explains how to play or use the capstone project
Assessment
Final assessment: the capstone project, a short code walkthrough and a set of small coding tasks covering the whole course
Projects You'll Build
Build a professional portfolio with 8 finished projects plus a notebook of solved puzzle problems real-world projects.
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Straight answers about C++ for Kids: First Real Code, Games and Puzzles (Ages 9-12)
- Who should take this course?
- Complete beginner to text coding, ages 9 to 12. It suits children who have done block coding and are ready for real typed code; children who have never coded and want to start with a language that teaches careful thinking; kids who enjoy logic puzzles, codes and number games.
- What will they learn and build?
- C++ has a reputation for being hard, and for adults learning alone it can be. For a 9 to 12-year-old with a patient teacher, it is something else: a language that makes the computer's thinking visible. Every variable has a type, every line ends with a semicolon, and the compiler says exactly what it did not understand. Children who learn this way pick up habits of precision that make every later language easier.
- How deeply are topics covered?
- The course runs 6 months (24 weeks) at 2 live classes/week + 1-2 hours practice, across 3 phases listed week by week in the syllabus below. A structured, well-paced curriculum taught step by step, with hands-on coding in every session.
- Who teaches it?
- Modern Age Coders mentors, who teach the live classes themselves. You can watch them at work in the free class recordings before you decide.
- How do practice, feedback and assessment work?
- Classwork every session, a task after every class, monthly reviews that mix in earlier topics, and a final assessment covering the whole course that decides the certificate. Doubt support between classes over WhatsApp, so you are never left stuck. A certificate you earn by passing the final assessment, with a free retest after revision if needed.
- What does it cost?
- Three monthly plans: a group batch, a mini batch and 1-on-1. Prices are shown in your currency in the plans section. Monthly billing, cancel any time.
- When can classes take place?
- Live classes are scheduled around your week. Group batches meet at a fixed weekly slot; 1-on-1 students choose their own. International students are scheduled in their own timezone. Ask on WhatsApp for the current slots.
- Can I watch the teaching before deciding?
- Yes. Full recordings of real 6 to 12 classes are free to watch, free with a Google sign-in. These recordings show how we teach, not the exact syllabus of this course. Some classes are in English and some in Hindi; everyone follows at their own pace. Watch a class end to end, like you are in it. Sessions are interactive and each moment builds on the last.
- Can I enroll without a live demo?
- Yes. Choose a plan on this page and enrol directly; a demo is not required. If you would like to see a full class with a mentor first, book a Priority Demo.
- How do I reach you with a question?
- WhatsApp +91 91233 66161, email connect@modernagecoders.com, or call +91 91233 66161. Tell us the student's age and what they have learned so far, and we will point you to the right plan and batch.
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