Online coding and AI classes in the Ayacucho region

We would rather turn a family away kindly than take a fee for classes that cannot work. If the free class shows that English is a wall rather than a step, you will hear that directly, along with an alternative: private lessons, a later start, or a gentler first course. Parents who prefer Spanish have a guide written in Spanish for families of younger children, and teenagers can see what a typical path looks like on coding classes for teens in Peru.

import csv
import re

CHAINAGE = re.compile(r"(\d+)\s*\+\s*(\d+)")

with open("inventario-vial.csv", encoding="utf-8-sig", newline="") as f:
    rows = list(csv.reader(f, delimiter=";"))[2:]

for row in rows:
    if not row[1]:
        continue
    marks = [int(km) * 1000 + int(m) for km, m in CHAINAGE.findall(row[4])]
    if marks:
        span = (marks[-1] - marks[0]) / 1000
        print(row[1], "first to last:", span, "km")

The pattern (\d+)\s*\+\s*(\d+) reads as "some digits, maybe spaces, a plus sign, maybe spaces, some digits", and the brackets capture the kilometres and metres separately. Multiplying the kilometres by 1,000 and adding the metres turns every mark into one whole number, so int("09") and int("00") are handled without fuss. Version 1 then takes the last mark minus the first. It looks reasonable, and two lines of its output already show that it is not: AY-117 comes out at zero kilometres, and AY-100 counts the stretch between two of its sections as if it were part of the work.

import csv
import re

CHAINAGE = re.compile(r"(\d+)\s*\+\s*(\d+)")

with open("inventario-vial.csv", encoding="utf-8-sig", newline="") as f:
    rows = list(csv.reader(f, delimiter=";"))[2:]

worked = gaps = 0
odd = []
for row in rows:
    marks = [int(km) * 1000 + int(m) for km, m in CHAINAGE.findall(row[4])]
    if not row[1] or not marks:
        continue
    if len(marks) % 2:
        odd.append(row[1])
        continue
    starts, ends = marks[0::2], marks[1::2]
    worked += sum(e - s for s, e in zip(starts, ends))
    gaps += sum(s - e for e, s in zip(ends, starts[1:]))

print("Sections with an odd count:", odd)
print("Inside the sections:", worked / 1000, "km")
print("Between the sections:", gaps / 1000, "km")

Version 2 treats the marks as start, end, start, end. The slices marks[0::2] and marks[1::2] separate the starts from the ends, zip lines them up, and a second zip measures the gap from each end to the next start. A route with an odd number of marks cannot be split into pairs, so the program puts it on a list instead of inventing the missing number. Five routes land there. AY-117 has a single mark. AY-107 begins at a junction written as "Emp. PE-30 D" with no chainage, so its first start is missing from the text, even though a person reading it would assume kilometre zero.

Data: Gobierno Regional de Ayacucho, Infraestructura y estado de la red vial departamental de Ayacucho, inventory file, ODC-By. Every count and length here is ours, computed from the text column and nothing else; it is not an official network length. The surface column says AFIRMADO on 12 rows, ASFALTADO on 4 and "AFIRMADA " with a trailing space on 1; the condition column says REGULAR on all 17.

1. For the youngest (around 6 to 8). Lay a skipping rope on the floor and stick paper marks on it: 2, 5, 9 and 12. Colour the rope between 2 and 5 and between 9 and 12. How much is coloured, and how much is left between?
2. Blocks (around 8 to 11). Make a list of four numbers in Scratch, then use a loop that takes them two at a time and adds up each difference. What should happen if the list has five numbers?
3. First Python (around 11 to 13). Change Version 1 so it also prints how many marks each route has. Which routes would you not trust?
4. Teenagers. Write a pattern that also captures the word before each mark, such as PACCHANCCA, so the program can print the place names in order.
5. University and adults. Clean the surface column with strip() and a small mapping so "AFIRMADA " and "AFIRMADO" count as one type, then total the paired lengths by surface.

The habit we are building is simple to say and hard to keep: when the data does not give you a number, say so and set the row aside, instead of filling the hole with a guess that looks tidy. It is the same habit we ask for when students use AI tools, and our page on learning to think rather than copy explains why we teach it from the first week.

Both notes point the same way: in Ayacucho, the hard part is reaching learners, not deciding what to teach them. Fábrica de Programadores, the MINEDU pilot that teaches Python to secundaria pupils, opened in July 2025 for a first group of 1,000 in Lima Norte; we found nothing showing it in Ayacucho yet. Competitions reach the region all the same. The ONEM maths olympiad held its school round on 8 July 2026, with over 1.7 million secundaria pupils taking part across Peru, and the OPI computing olympiads run by UTEC cost nothing to enter. We have no tie to the regional government, MINEDU, UTEC or either competition, and every problem we set is written by us.

Source: tables 11.5, 11.6 and 11.13 of INEI's statistical compendium for 2026 (volume 1), based on ENAHO, the national household survey. INEI prints decimal commas; we show points. Survey estimates for the department, not head counts.

Tell the mentor in the free class what you have. If there is no computer the learner can use regularly, we will say that waiting is better than paying for a course that cannot be practised between sessions.

Our suggestions only. Grade placement follows MINEDU's normative age on 31 March, so pupils in one class can be almost a year apart.

University students in the region can compare options on coding courses for university students in Peru, and the full national overview, with every Peru guide, is on coding and AI classes in Peru.

Ayacucho uses Peru time, five hours behind UTC, with no daylight saving since 1994 (tz database zone America/Lima). India runs five and a half hours ahead of UTC, so the difference never changes from 10 hours 30 minutes.

Because neither clock changes, an hour agreed in March still holds in October. You pick it in your own time when booking. Schools reopened for 2026 on 16 March, and many families start in the January to March holidays, when there is more free time; our summer holiday coding guide for Peru covers that route.