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Online coding and AI classes for San Diego students

Can San Diego students take live coding and AI classes online?

Yes. Modern Age Coders teaches San Diego students live online on Pacific Time, from Scratch at age 6 to Python, data science and AI for teens, in groups of fifteen to twenty at one level or privately. The first class is free. Our San Diego project ranks the city’s busiest street segments from the Transportation Department’s own traffic counts.

San Diego families tend to protect their afternoons: there is the beach, the practice field, the drive up the 5. A class that runs at the kitchen table fits around all of that, provided the teaching is real. Below is what our students actually do with data the City of San Diego publishes, how class times work on Pacific Time, and the one published figure we can give on computer science in California high schools.

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Facts last verified 18 October 2026. Teaching is online; no San Diego branch is claimed.

Course picks for San Diego

Four courses most San Diego students start with

Ages are guides. The free class looks at what a student can already do and recommends from there.

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Ages 7 to 11

Scratch Coding for Kids

Games and animations in Scratch, built in stages and shown to the class when finished.

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Ages 12 to 17

Python for Teens

A full grounding in Python, including the dictionaries and sorting the traffic project needs.

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Ages 13 to 17

Data Science for Teens

Real datasets cleaned, summarised and charted in pandas, with every step explained.

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Ages 14 to 18

AI and Machine Learning for Teens

Machine learning built from the ground up in Python, then tested on data it has not seen.

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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.

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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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Signature project

Which San Diego street is busiest? Cleaning the City’s traffic counts first

The City of San Diego Transportation Department publishes its Average Daily Traffic counts, one row per count. Some streets were counted more than once, so a naive ranking would mix old and new measurements.

Highest Average Daily Traffic, keeping only the latest count for each location (our calculation from the City’s Traffic Counts CSV, downloaded 18 October 2026)
Street segment (as written in the data)Latest ADT totalCount date
N Harbor Dr btwn Harbor Island Dr & Spanish Landing91,2082024-06-25
N Harbor Dr btwn Laurel St & Coast Guard Gt87,4582024-06-27
Fairmount Ave btwn Montezuma Rd & Camino del Rio S80,6432024-05-01
What the file contains (our counts)
CheckResult
Rows2,594
Earliest and latest count date2023-01-04 and 2026-09-24
Distinct location strings2,436
Locations counted more than once118, some up to 5 times
Rows where both directions add up to the totalall 2,594
Median of the latest count per location3,426.5 vehicles

Spot the repeats

Counting rows per location shows 118 locations appearing more than once. Three short streets near Kettner Boulevard were each counted five times; the file does not say why.

Keep the newest

A dictionary keyed by location holds one row each; a new row replaces the stored one only if its date is later. ISO dates such as 2024-06-25 compare correctly even as text, which students verify rather than assume.

Check the arithmetic

Each row splits traffic into two directions. Adding adt_ab and adt_ba and comparing with adt_total is a cheap test that the file is internally consistent, and on this download it passes on every row.

The project then turns into a reading exercise. The City’s description says ADT counts give a good estimate for the actual number of vehicles on an average weekday at select street segments, and that segments are chosen to represent a longer stretch of the same road. So the top of our table means “the busiest counted segments”, not the busiest roads in San Diego. Freeways, which the City does not count here, are missing entirely.

The description also says the report covers roughly the past 12 years, yet every row in our download falls between January 2023 and September 2026, and the page lists a last update of April 1, 2023 while holding counts from 2026. Students note both mismatches in their write-up. Documentation drifts away from data all the time, and an analyst who reads only one of them will eventually be caught out.

Ours, not the City’s

The rankings and counts on this page are ours, computed from one download on 18 October 2026. The City publishes the file under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License; location strings are printed exactly as the file spells them.

California numbers

California high school computer science, against the national figure

One comparison from a single published dataset.

The same spreadsheet gives both numbers. Code.org (2025). 2025 State of AI + CS Education shows 60% of US high schools offering computer science nationally, 14,805 of 24,405 across combined years, and a most recent California value of 58.1%, slightly under the national share. The California figure comes from school course catalogs and teacher surveys, and its school year is labelled differently on two tabs, so we print no year. The California Department of Education site was unreadable to us on 18 October 2026, so no state rule appears here; the statewide overview is on our California page.

Neither number says what a particular San Diego campus teaches this year, or whether a ninth grader can get into the course. That local detail is usually where an outside class earns its place.

Class times

Pacific Time, the San Diego way

Teachers are based in India. Families see and book times in Pacific Time only.

You choose

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays.

Half-hour offset

India runs on a half-hour offset, so the gap to San Diego is 12.5 hours during daylight time and 13.5 hours during standard time.

Two Sundays

Standard time starts on Sunday, November 1, 2026, and daylight time on Sunday, March 14, 2027. Our reminders go out the week before.

Dates and zones in one project

The traffic file stores plain dates. Students who later add times of day must attach a zone, and the IANA database gives San Diego the identifier America/Los_Angeles, shared with every Pacific city in California.

Learning ladder

Scratch at seven to machine learning at seventeen

The teacher recommends a rung after the free class. Students move up on evidence, not on birthdays.

Ages 6 to 8

Blocks

Sequences, loops and events in a visual editor.

Coding for KidsProblem Solving and Computational Thinking for Kids
Ages 8 to 11

Games

Scratch and first Python games with scores and levels.

Scratch Coding for KidsPython and AI for Kids
Ages 12 to 15

Code and data

Python, dictionaries and files, then the traffic project.

Python for TeensData Science for Teens
Ages 15 to 18

AI and the web

Machine learning and full web apps, with honest evaluation.

AI and Machine Learning for TeensFull Stack Web Development for Teens
AI and judgment

Coding in San Diego when AI can write the code

AI tools make cleaning data faster. They do not decide what clean means.

Hand the raw traffic file to an AI assistant and ask for the busiest street, and it may return a confident ranking that mixes counts taken years apart. It is unlikely to point out, unprompted, that the description promises twelve years of data while the file holds less than four. Noticing that takes someone who has looked.

So our teens write the de-duplication themselves before they ever ask an AI tool to speed it up, and they use such tools only within the provider’s age rules. The goal is a student who can tell a correct answer from a plausible one.

Machine learning is mostly data work, and data work is mostly deciding which rows to trust. The longer argument is in is coding worth learning now.

How it works

From Point Loma to Rancho Bernardo, one class

San Diego is a large city to drive across; a live online class is not.

No commute

Students in Point Loma and Rancho Bernardo can share a group, each joining from their own room.

Live help

The teacher watches each student’s shared screen and asks questions until the student finds the bug.

Free first class

A real coding task, a short talk with the parent, and a clear recommendation. No card at this stage.

Groups by level

Fifteen to twenty students working at the same stage, from San Diego and around the country.

Private lessons

One teacher for one student, timed around sports, surf or a part-time job.

Fits the school year

Teachers plan by US grade and school calendar, and never complete graded schoolwork for a student.

Online only

There is no Modern Age Coders location in San Diego and none is claimed. All teaching is live online from India; a student needs a computer, a headset and reliable internet.

Fees

What San Diego families pay

Free to start, then one of two monthly options.

First classUSD 0

A full first class with a teacher, free, ending with a suggested course and time.

Group tuitionUSD 100

A month of live classes in a group of fifteen to twenty students at one level.

Private tuitionUSD 150

A month of one-to-one classes, at times that suit the student.

San Diego families pay in US dollars, at the same rate as any family in the United States. We bill only after the free class, once course and schedule are agreed; details on breaks are on the pricing page.

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Reviews

Reviews left on Google by families

Rated 4.9 across 547 Google reviews. These are real reviews, reproduced as written.

★★★★★

"The one step solution for my son. Modern Age Coders make learning coding so simple that kids love it. The teachers explain complex concepts clearly with practical exercises and interactive content."

Ria Mukherjee

Parent

★★★★★

"Modern Age Coders has been a game-changer for me. I struggled to grasp IT concepts and coding before joining, but their classes transformed everything. I can now confidently write complex programs with ease."

Samriddha Mondal

Student

★★★★★

"One of the most wonderful education centres out there. Education is not limited to school syllabus but focuses on skill development."

Vansh Agarwal

Student

★★★★★

"My child Dhairya is really enjoying the Modern Age Coders classes. This is his first online class and he eagerly looks forward to it. I can already see his improvement, and the teachers are very cooperative."

Sonam Oswal

Parent of Dhairya

★★★★★

"Modern Age Coders have wonderful teachers who teach in a clear, easy and practical way. The teacher boosts students' confidence and inspires them to learn without hesitation."

Sonu Goyal

Parent

★★★★★

"I highly recommend this computer coding class! The teachers are incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about coding."

Ritu Kedia

Parent

Free placement class

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Tell us the student’s age and goal. Younger students start with blocks; teens with some Python might start on the traffic file.

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FAQ

San Diego family questions

Short answers for San Diego parents and students.

Do you teach in person in San Diego?

No. Students join a live teacher over video from home, wherever they are in the city or county.

What ages do you teach?

From about six with block coding, through Python in the tweens, to data science and AI courses for teens.

When do classes run?

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience. All times are in Pacific Time.

What is the traffic count project?

Students take the City of San Diego Traffic Counts file, keep the latest count for each location, check that the two directions add up, and rank the busiest counted segments.

Is the busiest segment on this page the busiest road in San Diego?

No. It is the busiest of the segments the City counted in our download. Freeways and uncounted streets are not in the file.

What does California require in computer science?

This page states no rule, because the California Department of Education site refused our direct reading on 18 October 2026. Our California page has the statewide picture.

Are AI assistants allowed in teen classes?

Later in a course, yes, as a way to work faster on code a teen already understands, and never a tool below the minimum age its maker sets.

How many students are in a group?

Fifteen to twenty, all at a similar level. Private one-to-one classes are the alternative.

Is there AP Computer Science preparation?

There is, for AP Computer Science A and for Principles, taken alongside the school course. Graded school work remains the student's own.

Are you connected with the City of San Diego?

No. Teaching with a public City file gives us no link to the City of San Diego, its Transportation Department or any school district.

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More for San Diego students

For the state as a whole, see coding classes in California. Data-minded teens can read AI projects for high school students, and builders can look at hackathons for high school students.

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