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Online coding classes for kids in Germany
Most parents have one real question about online classes: what actually happens on the screen for that hour? This page answers it plainly. It walks through one live lesson from hello to goodbye, lists what a child needs at home, shows how a German afternoon lines up with a mentor's evening in India, explains what the clock change in March does to a class, and checks the 2026/27 holiday table for every Land.
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The short answer
Online coding classes for kids in Germany at Modern Age Coders are live video lessons in English for children aged 6 to 12: the mentor and the child share screens, and the child builds Scratch games or Python programs while the mentor guides, for about an hour twice a week. A computer with a keyboard, a headset and a steady connection are enough. Lessons sit in German afternoons or at weekends, in a group of fifteen to twenty or one to one.
Courses taught this way
Three online courses for children in Germany
All three are taught live on video. They differ in the child's age and in how much typing the child is ready for.
Every lesson has the same rhythm, so children know what comes next. This is our plan for an hour with a group of nine year olds working in Scratch.
One hour of a live online lesson, minute by minute (our lesson plan)
Minutes
What happens
Who drives the screen
0 to 5
Hello, cameras on, a quick look back at last time's game
Mentor
5 to 15
One new idea shown on a tiny example, such as a timer that counts down
Mentor
15 to 40
Children add the idea to their own game; the mentor visits each screen in turn
Children
40 to 50
A bug hunt: something is broken on purpose, and the group finds it
Children, one at a time
50 to 55
Two or three children show their game and explain one block
Children
55 to 60
What to try before next time; a short note goes to parents
Mentor
Our own lesson plan for a group class. One-to-one lessons follow the same order, with more time for the child's own project and less for showing.
The child drives
For more than half the lesson the child's screen is the one being shared. The mentor can point, ask and suggest, but the child's hands are on the keyboard, which is why online lessons work at all.
Nobody hides
In a video lesson a quiet child cannot sit at the back. The mentor calls on each child by name, checks every screen, and notices within a minute when a child is stuck.
Nothing pre-recorded
There is no video to watch alone and no worksheet to finish without help. Each lesson happens once, live, with the mentor who taught the last one.
Our mentors are in India and teach only in English. On video that matters less than parents fear: the mentor shows each step on screen before saying it, keeps sentences short, and repeats in other words when a face looks puzzled. A child who answers in German is understood, and gently handed the English word.
The setup at home
What does a child need at home for online coding classes?
Less than for most hobbies. Here is the checklist we send to families before the first lesson.
A laptop or desktop computer with a real keyboard. Scratch works on a tablet, but typing Python and sharing a screen are far easier on a computer. Any machine from the last few years with a current browser is enough.
A headset with a microphone. Cheap is fine. It keeps the mentor's voice clear and the child's answers easy to hear, and stops a younger sibling joining in.
A steady internet connection. The same connection that runs a family video call will run a lesson. Sitting close to the router helps more than a faster plan.
A quiet corner and a glass of water. A table, not a sofa. The same place every week turns the lesson into a habit.
For children under about 8, a parent nearby. Not to help with the code, just to help with logging in and finding the mouse in the first two or three lessons.
No special software. Scratch runs in the browser, and so can Python at the start. The mentor helps install anything else, live, when the child is ready.
What we never ask for
Children do not need their own email address or any social media account to join a lesson. The class link goes to the parent.
Mentors do not ask children for personal details, photos of themselves or their school's name, and children do not share contact details in class.
If something goes wrong
Connections drop. If a child falls out of the call, they rejoin with the same link and the mentor recaps what was missed.
If a lesson is lost to a broken connection or illness, we arrange a catch-up with the same mentor rather than leaving a gap.
Time zones, as a project
What time are online classes in Germany, and what changes in March?
German law fixes the clock in two lines. The Einheitenzeitgesetz says legal time is Central European Time, "die koordinierte Weltzeit unter Hinzufügung einer Stunde": UTC plus one hour. In summer it is UTC plus two. India keeps UTC+5:30 all year, so the gap between a child's clock and a mentor's clock changes twice a year. Our older children turn that into a program.
Four example class times, in Germany and on the mentor's side
A child's clock in Germany
The mentor's clock this winter
The mentor's clock from 28 March 2027
Weekday 14:00
18:30
17:30
Weekday 16:45
21:15
20:15
Saturday 11:30
16:00
15:00
Sunday 09:00
13:30
12:30
Under the Sommerzeitverordnung, summer time begins on the last Sunday in March at 2 Uhr, when the clocks jump to 3 Uhr, and ends on the last Sunday in October at 3 Uhr, when they go back to 2 Uhr. It ended on 25 October 2026 and begins on 28 March 2027. India does not change its clocks. The rows are examples; no class is fixed to them.
The puzzle
A Saturday class sits at 11:30 in Germany. A child writes a program to tell the mentor's time: take the hours and minutes and add four and a half hours. It prints 16:00, which is correct today.
In April the program still prints 16:00. The mentor, meanwhile, is starting the class at 15:00. Nothing in the code is broken. The rule it uses is only true for half the year.
The fix
The better program never adds hours by hand. It records the moment of the class in Germany's own time zone, Europe/Berlin, and asks Python to show that same moment in Asia/Kolkata.
Python's zoneinfo module knows the German clock-change rules, so the answer moves by itself on 28 March 2027.
It prints: Saturday 11:30 in Germany is 16:00 in India. Right for this winter, wrong from April.
Version 2: convert the moment, not the clock readingPython
from datetime import datetime
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
germany = ZoneInfo("Europe/Berlin")
india = ZoneInfo("Asia/Kolkata")
for day in ["2027-03-20", "2027-03-27", "2027-04-03"]:
lesson = datetime.fromisoformat(day + " 11:30").replace(tzinfo=germany)
print(day, "11:30 in Germany is", lesson.astimezone(india).strftime("%H:%M"), "in India")
It prints 2027-03-20 11:30 in Germany is 16:00 in India, then the same for 27 March, then 2027-04-03 11:30 in Germany is 15:00 in India. The class did not move; the gap between the clocks did.
Then comes the part children remember. The Sommerzeitverordnung says that when summer time ends, "Die Stunde von 2 Uhr bis 3 Uhr erscheint dabei zweimal": the hour from 2 to 3 happens twice, and the law even names the two copies 2A and 2B. Version 3 walks through the night of 25 October 2026 in half-hour steps of world time and prints what a German clock showed.
Version 3: the hour that happened twicePython
from datetime import timedelta, timezone
night = datetime(2026, 10, 25, 0, 0, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
for step in range(4):
moment = night + timedelta(minutes=30 * step)
print(moment.strftime("%H:%M UTC"), "is", moment.astimezone(germany).strftime("%H:%M %Z"), "in Germany")
After Version 2, it prints: 00:00 UTC is 02:00 CEST in Germany, 00:30 UTC is 02:30 CEST in Germany, 01:00 UTC is 02:00 CET in Germany and 01:30 UTC is 02:30 CET in Germany.
Ages 7 to 9, on paper. Draw two clocks, one for Germany and one for India. Move the German hand to 16:00 and work out the Indian clock. Now do it again for a day in May.
Ages 10 to 12, in Python. Run Version 1 for a date in April and explain why it is wrong before reading Version 2.
Going further. In March the hour from 2 to 3 never happens in Germany. Change Version 3 to walk through the night of 28 March 2027 and find the missing hour yourself.
School holidays
Do online coding classes stop in the German school holidays?
No, unless you want them to. Each Land sets its own autumn, Christmas, winter and Easter holidays, so a class with children from several Länder cannot follow one calendar anyway.
Autumn and Christmas school holidays 2026/27 by Land, first and last day
Land
Herbstferien 2026
Weihnachtsferien 2026/27
Baden-Württemberg
26.10. to 30.10., and 31.10.
23.12. to 09.01.
Bayern
02.11. to 06.11.
24.12. to 08.01.
Berlin
19.10. to 31.10.
23.12. to 02.01.
Brandenburg
19.10. to 30.10.
23.12. to 02.01.
Bremen
12.10. to 24.10.
23.12. to 09.01.
Hamburg
19.10. to 30.10.
21.12. to 01.01.
Hessen
05.10. to 17.10.
23.12. to 12.01.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
15.10. to 24.10.
21.12. to 02.01.
Niedersachsen
12.10. to 24.10.
23.12. to 09.01.
Nordrhein-Westfalen
17.10. to 31.10.
23.12. to 06.01.
Rheinland-Pfalz
05.10. to 16.10.
23.12. to 08.01.
Saarland
05.10. to 16.10.
21.12. to 31.12.
Sachsen
12.10. to 24.10.
23.12. to 02.01.
Sachsen-Anhalt
19.10. to 30.10.
21.12. to 02.01.
Schleswig-Holstein
12.10. to 24.10.
21.12. to 06.01.
Thüringen
12.10. to 24.10.
23.12. to 02.01.
Source: Kultusministerkonferenz, Ferien im Schuljahr 2026/2027, Stand 09.10.2025, which gives the first and last day of each holiday. The KMK agrees the summer holidays years ahead; every other holiday is set by the Land itself. Schleswig-Holstein has special rules for Sylt, Föhr, Amrum, Helgoland and the Halligen.
Read the Bayern row and you will see that Bavarian children are on their autumn holidays this very week, 2 to 6 November 2026, while the Hessen break ended on 17 October. Christmas runs from 21 or 24 December to anywhere between 31 December and 12 January. Online classes simply carry on through all of it. Families who travel can pause, and families who stay home often find a holiday week the easiest time to start, when a child is rested and curious.
The legal school year in Germany starts on 1 August and ends on 31 July, the KMK says, with six weeks of summer holidays somewhere between mid June and mid September depending on the Land. Our year does not have that shape. A child can start in any month, and the course picks up from wherever they are.
Getting used to video
How a child settles into online lessons
Our own description of the first weeks, based on how most children respond. Some move faster, a few need longer, and that is fine.
The first six weeks online (ours)
Week
What usually happens
What the mentor looks for
1
Finding the mute button, learning names, a first moving sprite
Can the child hear clearly and share a screen?
2
Following along on their own screen without waiting to be told
Does the child try before asking?
3
Answering a question out loud in English, in a short sentence
Is the child relaxed on camera?
4
Fixing a small bug while the group watches
Does the child explain what they changed?
5 to 6
Showing a finished game and taking a question about it
Is the child proud of something they made?
For parents
The best sign is not a perfect game. It is the week your child stops asking you to sit with them.
If week 3 feels slow because of English, tell us. The mentor can slow down, or a one-to-one plan can take the pressure off.
For children
If you cannot hear, say so straight away. Everyone has had a crackly microphone.
When you share your screen, the mentor sees your mistakes. That is the point: they can only help with what they can see.
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Fees
What online classes cost for families in Germany
You pay by the month, and a month is eight live lessons. On this page the fee appears in euro, calculated with the European Central Bank reference rate; the checkout then charges US dollars and your card provider converts them, so the euro on your statement may not match to the cent.
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Questions from parents
Online coding classes for kids in Germany: questions
Are the classes in German?
No. Every lesson is live and in English; we do not offer German-language teaching. Mentors keep their English simple, show each step on screen, and adapt to each child's pace and accent, so a child with some school English can follow.
Is an online class as good as one in a room?
For coding, often better. The child's own screen is shared, so the mentor sees exactly what they typed, and nobody can drift at the back. What matters is a live mentor and a small enough group, not the building.
What does my child need at home?
A laptop or desktop with a keyboard, a headset with a microphone, a steady internet connection and a quiet table. No special software is needed at the start, and no account of the child's own.
Can a six year old learn coding online?
Yes, with short lessons and a parent nearby for the first few weeks to help with logging in. Six year olds start in Scratch, where blocks are dragged rather than typed, which works well over video.
When are the lessons in German time?
Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays. A Saturday class at 11:30 in Germany is 16:00 for the mentor until 28 March 2027 and 15:00 after it.
What happens when the clocks change in March?
Your class stays at the same German time. Germany moves to summer time on 28 March 2027 and India does not change, so the mentor starts an hour earlier in their own day. You do not need to do anything.
Do classes stop in the school holidays?
No. Every Land has its own autumn, Christmas and Easter dates, so classes run all year. If you travel, tell us and we pause your place or arrange catch-ups.
Are lessons recorded?
Lessons are live and happen once. Your child is not asked to learn from a recording; if a lesson is missed, the mentor arranges a catch-up instead.
How is the fee shown and charged?
We show the monthly fee in euro, worked out with the European Central Bank reference rate. The checkout charges US dollars and your card provider converts them, so the statement can differ by a little. The first lesson is free.
What if our internet drops in the middle of a class?
Your child rejoins with the same link and the mentor fills them in. If a whole lesson is lost, we arrange a catch-up with the same mentor.
The free lesson doubles as a technical check: the mentor makes sure sound and screen sharing work, tries a small first program with your child, and then suggests a group or one to one.
Lessons are live on video and in English, with mentors in India. Questions about setup are easiest on WhatsApp.
Want a class sooner? Book a priority demo
A priority demo is a full class of about 45 to 60 minutes. 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.
