Peru · Adults and students · Live online, in English
A Platzi alternative with live classes
Platzi is a widely used online learning platform with Latin American roots, and many Peruvians have tried it. Some love studying at their own pace. Others find that a library of videos waits patiently while life gets in the way, and start looking for a class that happens at a fixed moment with a real person. This page compares the two formats fairly, using Platzi's own description of itself, and helps you work out which one suits the way you learn.
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Straight answer
If you want a Platzi alternative with live classes, Modern Age Coders teaches coding, data and AI live online in English to adults, university students and teenagers in Peru. Every lesson is a real-time video class with a mentor based in India, in a group of fifteen to twenty or one to one, at hours you choose in Peru time. Platzi's own pages describe a large library you follow at your own pace, with some live sessions; ours is a class that happens with a person every time. The first class is free.
Where adults start
Three courses adults in Peru often take instead of a video track
Each is taught live from the first session, with the same mentor throughout.
Who looks for a Platzi alternative with live classes?
Mostly adults who already know they can learn online, and have found that what they need is not more content but a fixed appointment, feedback and someone who notices when they are stuck.
The stalled self-learner
You started a track with real enthusiasm, finished a third of it, and have not opened it in a month. The material was fine; the missing piece was a reason to show up.
The career changer
You need to reach a working level in Python, web or data within a year, and want someone to check your code and push you through the hard middle part.
The English-minded professional
You want technical skills and the confidence to discuss them in English, because the job you are aiming at is with an international team.
Online learning is common in Peru. In the World Bank's Global Findex survey for 2024, 42.9% of Peruvians aged 15 and over said they had used online information to learn, train or study in the previous three months. The question for most of them is not whether to learn online, but in which format.
Platzi, in its own words
What does Platzi say it offers?
A large online course library, followed at your own pace on the web or in an app, with certificates on passing a final exam, and some live sessions and community features included.
The library
On its prices page Platzi describes itself as "an online education platform with more than 1900 courses", across development, AI, design, marketing, business, audiovisual production and English. Its homepage lists tracks such as Backend Development with Python and with Java, and an English school running from A1 to C1.
Its FAQ says courses are "100% online, available 24/7, and you can progress at your own pace", and that they "include downloadable material, challenges, live sessions and access to the community". So Platzi is not purely recorded: live sessions are part of what it lists.
Certificates, devices and newer tools
A certificate in PDF format comes after passing a course's final exam with at least 90%; a failed exam can be retaken after 6 hours. Courses run in a browser or in Platzi's app on Android 5+ or iOS 13+, and annual plans can download classes to watch offline.
The homepage now leads with Platzi Learn, which turns documents you upload (PDFs, decks, documents or videos, up to 200 MB) into a class. The FAQ also says anyone can watch the first 3 classes of any course at no cost, and that a subscription can be paused up to twice a year, a month at a time.
Sources: platzi.com, read on 9 November 2026, and platzi.com/precios/, read on 8 November 2026. Platzi's plans are named on that page (Expert, Expert Duo, Expert Groups and Basic); we do not reproduce their prices, ratings or reviews, and we make no claim that either format is better.
Library vs live
How is a live class different from a self-paced course library?
They solve different problems. A library gives breadth and freedom; a live class gives timing, feedback and accountability. Neither is better in general; each is better for certain people at certain moments.
A self-paced library with some live sessions, as Platzi describes itself, and our live classes, as we run them
Question
Platzi (its own pages)
Modern Age Coders
When you study
Any time; "available 24/7"
At a booked hour, any day you choose
Pace
"progress at your own pace"
Set with a mentor, adjusted every week
Teaching
Recorded courses, plus "live sessions"
A live mentor in every lesson
Range
"more than 1900 courses"
A smaller catalogue, taught in depth
Feedback on your code
Challenges and community
Your mentor reads and comments on it
Language
Pages we read served in English; Spanish-speaking brand
English only, every lesson
Certificate
PDF after a final exam of 90% or more
Our own certificate of completion
Trying first
First 3 classes of any course free
First live class free
Platzi column: quotations and paraphrases from platzi.com and platzi.com/precios/ (8 and 9 November 2026). Our column: our own offer in November 2026.
What a library does well
Range: if you want to sample design on Monday and SQL on Friday, a library lets you. Price per topic is usually low, and you can study at 2 a.m. on a phone in a taxi.
Revision: a recorded explanation can be replayed as often as you need, which suits people who like to go slowly through a hard idea alone.
What a live class does well
Momentum: the class happens whether or not you feel like it, and a mentor expects you there. For many adults that single fact is the difference between finishing and not.
Correction: a mentor sees the mistake you did not know you made, asks why you wrote that line, and makes you explain it. A video cannot ask you a question back.
Many learners combine the two: a live course for the backbone of a skill, and a library for side topics. That is a perfectly sensible plan, and nothing about our classes stops you using any platform alongside them.
Which suits you
Should I learn coding with recorded courses or live classes?
Answer five questions honestly. Three or more answers on the right suggest a live class will serve you better right now; three or more on the left suggest a library may be enough.
Our five-question self-test (our own tool, not a scientific instrument)
Question
A library likely suits you if
A live class likely suits you if
Have you finished a long online course alone before?
Yes, more than once
Rarely or never
When you are stuck for an hour, what happens?
You search and solve it
You stop for days
Do you need a deadline (job, exam, move)?
No fixed date
Yes, within a year
How is your spoken technical English?
Not a goal for now
You want to practise it
Do you want someone to read your code?
Not essential
Yes, regularly
Why English matters in the choice
EF's English Proficiency Index 2025 gives Peruvians aged 26 to 30 a score of 559, in EF's "high" band, those aged 31 to 40 a score of 537 and those over 41 a score of 509. Speaking is Peru's weakest skill, at 480.
A recorded course trains listening and reading. A live class in English adds the part most Peruvian professionals say they lack: speaking about technical work, in real time, to someone who answers.
Why time and equipment matter
Almost every working-age Peruvian is online: INEI found internet use of 97.3% among people aged 19 to 24 and 95.2% among those aged 25 to 40 in the second quarter of 2026. But only 36.4% of households had a computer.
Coding seriously needs a laptop or desktop, whichever format you choose. A phone is enough to watch a lesson, and not enough to do one.
A real lesson
Why do people forget what they watched? A spaced-repetition lesson in Python
One reason recorded courses feel productive and then fade is that watching is not recalling. A simple answer from learning science is the Leitner box system: test yourself, and space the reviews out as an idea sticks. This lesson builds it in Python.
How the boxes work
Every idea starts in box 1 and comes back the next day. Recall it without help and it moves to box 2, which comes back after 3 days, then box 3, after 7. Forget it and it drops straight back to box 1.
The program tracks three ideas from a Python lesson (slicing, dict.get and f-strings) over 14 days, using an invented record of right and wrong answers. Each idea stores its box and the day it is next due.
What the output shows
On day 4, dict.get is forgotten and falls from box 2 to box 1, so it returns on day 5. That is the system doing its job: the weak idea gets attention, the strong one (slicing) is left alone until day 11.
Across 14 days the three ideas need 12 reviews. Drilling all three every day would mean 42. Spacing is not about working less; it is about spending effort where memory is weakest.
Leitner boxes for three Python ideasPython
# Leitner boxes: box 1 comes back after 1 day, box 2 after 3, box 3 after 7.
GAP = {1: 1, 2: 3, 3: 7}
# Our invented record: True means recalled without help.
answers = {
'slicing': [True, True, True],
'dict.get': [True, False, True, True, True],
'f-strings': [False, False, True, True, True],
}
box = {k: 1 for k in answers}
due = {k: 1 for k in answers}
reviews = 0
for day in range(1, 15):
today = [k for k in answers if due[k] == day]
for k in today:
ok = answers[k].pop(0)
reviews += 1
box[k] = min(box[k] + 1, 3) if ok else 1
due[k] = day + GAP[box[k]]
if today:
print('day', day, today, '->', box)
print('reviews:', reviews, '| daily drilling:', 14 * 3)
Exact output from running the program with Python 3.14. The right and wrong answers are invented for the lesson.
In our live classes, the mentor plays the part of the boxes: the first minutes of each lesson go back to whatever the learner struggled with last time, and ideas that are solid are left alone. With a library you can do the same yourself, and this little program is a fair place to start.
Predict. If slicing had been forgotten on day 4, on which day would it come back?
Change a rule. Make box 3 return after 14 days and count the reviews again.
Find the crash. Shorten one list of answers and explain, in English, why Python raises IndexError.
Use it. Replace the three ideas with three things you are learning this month.
Any course
How do you choose an online coding course in Peru?
The same eight checks work for a platform, a bootcamp, a university extension course or us.
Name the goal. A job, a project, an exam or curiosity. Each points to a different course.
Check the format in writing. Recorded, live, or a mix, and how much of each.
Ask who reads your code. A person, a test suite, peers, or nobody.
Check the language. Which language every lesson and every piece of feedback is in.
Try before paying. Platzi opens the first three classes of any course; we offer a free live class. Use them.
Look at a finished project. Ask what a learner at the end can build, and see one.
Read the stopping rules. Pauses, cancellation and renewal, before you pay.
Decide after a month. Can you now do something alone that you could not before?
Lima times for a live class, beside the mentor's time in India (conversions, not a schedule)
Lima
India
Who often picks it
06:30
17:00
Before work
13:00
23:30
A lunch-hour class
19:30
06:00, next day
After the working day
21:00
07:30, next day
Late learners
Conversions are ours, from the tz database: America/Lima stays at UTC minus 5 all year and Asia/Kolkata at UTC plus 5:30, a constant 10 hours 30 minutes apart. All our Peru pages are on the Peru hub.
Six months
What can an adult reach in six months of live classes?
A realistic path for an adult starting Python from zero with two classes a week and some practice between them. These are our levels, not a guarantee.
Our six-month path for adult beginners
Month
You can
You can explain in English
Evidence
1
Write short scripts with loops and conditions
What each line does
Ten small exercises
2
Use lists, dictionaries and functions
Why a function beats copied code
A tidy script of your own
3
Read and write files, handle errors
An error message and its cause
A tool that cleans a spreadsheet
4
Use a library and an API
What the API returns
A small data report
5
Structure a project and test it
How you tested it
A repository with tests
6
Finish and present a project
Its design, in five minutes
A short live demo
If you are switching from a library
Bring what you already know. The free class finds your level, and you skip what you have truly mastered.
Expect the first weeks to feel slower: you will be asked to explain, not just to finish.
If you are short of time
One-to-one lets you move a class when work runs late. Consistency matters more than intensity.
Twenty minutes of recall between classes beats two hours of rewatching.
More courses
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Fees
Fees for adults in Peru
You pay monthly in US dollars by card. Your card issuer converts the charge to soles at its own daily rate, so the statement amount can vary slightly from one month to the next.
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Parent
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Learners ask
Platzi or live classes: questions from learners in Peru
Are the classes in Spanish?
No. Every class is live, online and in English only. Mentors based in India speak clearly and adjust to your pace and accent, and the code and notes are on screen throughout. Practising technical English is part of the value.
Is Platzi recorded or live?
By its own description, mostly a library of courses you follow at your own pace, available at any hour, which also includes live sessions and community access. Ours is a live class with a mentor every time. Check Platzi's own site for the current details.
Is this better than Platzi?
We do not claim that. A self-paced library suits learners who finish courses alone; a live class suits those who need timing, feedback and someone to answer. Many people use both.
Are you connected with Platzi?
No. We are an independent online school with no link to Platzi. We describe it only from its own pages, read on 8 and 9 November 2026.
Can I use Platzi and your classes together?
Yes. Some learners keep a library for side topics and take a live course for their main skill. Tell your mentor what you are studying elsewhere so the plan fits around it.
When are 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. Lima is 10 hours 30 minutes behind India all year, so 19:30 in Lima is 06:00 the next morning in India.
Do you give certificates?
Yes, our own certificate of completion. It is not a Peruvian academic qualification and carries no university credit. Most employers will care more about a project you can explain.
I am over 40 and a beginner. Is a live class too fast?
No. Groups are formed by level, not age, and one-to-one goes exactly at your speed. Many of our adult learners started later in life.
Do I need a computer?
Yes, a laptop or desktop with a stable connection and a headset. A phone can show the lesson, but coding needs a keyboard and a proper screen.
How do I pay from Peru?
Monthly by card, in US dollars, converted into soles by your bank. The first class is free and needs no card.
Book a free live class and compare it honestly with whatever you have used before. A mentor works through a real problem with you in English, sees where you are, and recommends a course, a format and hours that fit your week.
Prefer to read first? How we teach explains a class in detail; the course list has every syllabus.
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