--- title: "Coding Classes for Kids in Etobicoke | Live Online, Ages 6 to 12" description: "Coding for Etobicoke kids aged 6 to 12, taught live online: Ontario Grade 3 loops, a public art by decade project on City data, and the Beaver contest." canonical: https://learn.modernagecoders.com/coding-classes-for-kids-in-etobicoke-toronto source: src/pages/coding-classes-for-kids-in-etobicoke-toronto.html --- > Coding for Etobicoke kids aged 6 to 12, taught live online: Ontario Grade 3 loops, a public art by decade project on City data, and the Beaver contest. Skip to contentCourses for Etobicoke children ## Four first courses Etobicoke families choose Each fits a different age and temperament; the free class tells us which. [![Scratch Coding for Kids course thumbnail](/images/scratch-kids.webp)Ages 6 to 9Scratch Coding for KidsRepeat blocks, patterns and animated stories, the Grade 3 idea of repeating events made visible, finished as games a child can share.See the syllabus](/courses/scratch-programming-complete-course)[![Web Development for Kids course thumbnail](/images/html-css-kids.webp)Ages 8 to 12Web Development for KidsReal web pages built by hand: headings, pictures and colours, a good home for a gallery of a child’s own art or the decade chart below.See the syllabus](/courses/kids-ai-web-development-course)[![App Making for Kids course thumbnail](/images/app-dev-kids.webp)Ages 7 to 12App Making for KidsSimple phone-style apps made from blocks: buttons, screens and counters, for children who want to make something they can tap.See the syllabus](/courses/block-coding-app-development-masterclass)[![Python and AI for Kids course thumbnail](/images/python-kids.webp)Ages 9 to 12Python and AI for KidsTyped Python with turtle art, games and small data projects, including the public art file, for children ready to spell their code.See the syllabus](/courses/python-ai-kids-masterclass) Browse the [course atlas](/course-atlas) for more than one hundred options and use the [coding roadmap](/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. [![Vibe Coding for Teens course thumbnail](/images/vibe-coding-teens.webp)Vibe codingAges 13 to 17Vibe Coding for TeensPython, web and AI projects where the learner still owns the thinking.See the syllabus](/courses/vibe-coding-for-teens-python-web-ai-projects-course)[![Python Automation Course course thumbnail](/images/python-college.webp)Python and AICollege and adultPython Automation CourseAutomate the work you already do, then let AI carry part of it.See the syllabus](/courses/python-ai-automation-masterclass-college)[![AI and Machine Learning for Teens course thumbnail](/images/ai-ml-teens.webp)AI and MLAges 14 to 18AI and Machine Learning for TeensTrain a model, read what it learned, and be able to say why it is wrong.See the syllabus](/courses/ai-ml-masterclass-teens)[![Codex & Claude Code course thumbnail](/images/codex-claude-code-adults.webp)Agentic codingProfessionalsCodex & Claude CodeRun AI coding agents on real work without losing control of the codebase.See the syllabus](/courses/codex-and-claude-code-ai-coding-agents-masterclass-for-adults-professionals)Grade 3 coding in Etobicoke ## Repeating patterns: the Ontario Grade 3 coding an Etobicoke child meets Etobicoke public schools teach the Ontario curriculum. The quotes below come from the Grade 3 math expectations and notes, read from the ministry’s curriculum content service on 22 October 2026; the second column is our approach. Grade 3, overviewThe ministry’s summary of the year: “Students will write code to perform a repeating operation, such as a repeating number pattern.”We start where Grade 3 already is: counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. A child says the pattern out loud, then builds the loop that says it for them.Grade 3, C3.1Code that involves “sequential, concurrent, and repeating events”, now with repeating added to the list.Repeat is the new block this year. We set one challenge in every lesson: find the part of your program that happens more than once and put a loop around it.Grade 3, exampleA program in the notes: “Set value to 0. Repeat 10 times: Add 2 to Value, Output value.” It prints 2, 4, 6 and so on up to 20.Children run it, then change the 2 to a 5 and the 10 to a 4 and predict the last number before pressing go. Guessing first, checking second, is the habit we want.Grade 3, teacher notes“Loops can also help to emphasize the repetitive properties of some mathematical tasks and concepts.”We use loops to show why multiplication is repeated addition: four loops of 3 steps land the sprite on 12, every time. The ministry also suggests unplugged coding, away from the screen, such as “two characters mirroring one another’s patterns of movement”. We use the same idea at the start of class: one child calls out turns and claps, the other follows, and both find out quickly how exact an instruction has to be. The Grade 3 number strand has a line that ties straight into the project below: “Each decade repeats the 0 to 9 counting sequence.” Grouping years into decades is exactly that pattern, used on real dates. For the years before and after Grade 3, our [Ontario coding guide for Grades 1 to 8](/ontario-coding-curriculum-grades-1-to-8) walks through each grade. ### The Grade 3 EQAO year Grade 3 is an EQAO year. EQAO lists 4 May to 8 June 2027 for the Reading, Writing and Mathematics assessment. Our classes are not test coaching, but patterns and number sense help with both. ### Short, hands-on lessons Eight-year-olds learn by doing. Our Grade 3 lessons switch every few minutes between talking, trying and fixing, so attention never has time to drift far. ### Reading still growing At this age reading speed varies a lot, so we keep instructions spoken and visual. Blocks carry short words, and the teacher reads them aloud whenever a child asks. ### Our place beside school Modern Age Coders teaches outside school hours and gives no school marks. It has no connection with the Ontario Ministry of Education, EQAO, any Toronto school board or the City of Toronto. Etobicoke data project ## When did Etobicoke get its public art? A decade chart from the City’s own list The City of Toronto publishes its public art inventory as open data: artworks owned by the City and works delivered through its percent-for-art program with private developers. Our older kids keep the rows in wards 1, 2 and 3, the three wards whose names begin with Etobicoke, and count the works by decade. That ward choice is ours, and every number below is our own count from the file downloaded on 22 October 2026. | Decade | Works in the file | As a text bar | | --- | --- | --- | | 1930s | 1 | # | | 1950s | 1 | # | | 1960s | 3 | ### | | 1990s | 6 | ###### | | 2000s | 3 | ### | | 2010s | 2 | ## | | 2020s | 8 | ######## | | Year unknown | 1 | # | The file holds 459 rows for the whole city; 25 of them sit in the three Etobicoke wards, 15 in ward 3, 7 in ward 1 and 3 in ward 2. The newest work is dated 2024 and the oldest 1930, and the 2020s already have more works than any earlier decade. Here is the program an 11-year-old writes, using only the Python standard library:`import csv decades = {} with open("public-art.csv", encoding="utf-8") as f: for art in csv.DictReader(f): if art["WARD"] in ("1", "2", "3"): year = art["YEAR"] if year.isdigit(): label = str(int(year) // 10 * 10) + "s" else: label = "unknown" decades[label] = decades.get(label, 0) + 1 for label in sorted(decades): print(label, "#" * decades[label])` ### Decades by division Integer division throws away the remainder: 1997 // 10 is 199, and times 10 is 1990. Adding an s gives the label. It is the Grade 3 decade pattern, done by a computer. ### When the year is missing One row says unknown instead of a year. Calling int on it would crash the program, so isdigit checks first, and the row lands in its own group rather than vanishing. ### A chart from symbols Multiplying a string repeats it, so "#" * 8 prints eight marks. A child sees the 2020s bar is longest without any charting library at all. ### Why we match the number, not the name Our first try matched the ward names exactly as the City’s ward file spells them and found 21 works. Four were missing. The art file writes ward 2 as Etobicoke-Centre, with a hyphen, and one ward 3 row adds (3) to the name. Matching the WARD number instead finds all 25. Across the city, 36 rows put a number in brackets after the ward name. Real files are typed by people, and a good program trusts the code column over the label. There is more for a curious class. Sculptures make up 20 of the 25, with two murals or paintings, two pieces of architecture or landscape and one multidisciplinary work. 13 belong to the City’s own collection and 11 came through the developer program. Searching the materials column, after making everything lower case, finds steel in 9 rows and bronze in 5; a single row can name more than one material, so those numbers overlap and must not be added together. The package notes say the inventory “shows over 400 works of public art throughout the City of Toronto”, which matches the 459 rows we downloaded. We print counts, decades and materials only, never artists, titles or descriptions. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Toronto ([licence terms](https://open.toronto.ca/open-data-licence/), [Public Art dataset](https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/public-art/)). Contest season ## The Beaver Computing Challenge in November 2026: what Etobicoke parents should know this week The Beaver Computing Challenge (BCC) from CEMC at the University of Waterloo is a logic contest with a level for Grade 6 and younger. It runs in schools, so timing depends on a school ordering it. Details are CEMC’s, read on 22 October 2026. ### The deadline is close CEMC gives Monday 26 October 2026 as the ordering deadline for this year’s BCC, which runs from 9 to 20 November 2026. A school that has not ordered by then may miss this year, so a quick question to the teacher now is worth it. ### Last year’s numbers CEMC reports 14 260 contestants at the Grade 5/6 level in 2025, with a mean score of 37.22 out of 60. It is a contest many children write, and an average score sits well below full marks. ### Not a test CEMC puts it plainly: “Our contests are not tests or exams. There is no passing or failing score.” We tell children the same: the point is to enjoy hard puzzles, not to be perfect. Entry goes through school, since CEMC says all students must participate through their school. Most Etobicoke children in our Grade 3 and 4 classes are still a year or two from the Grade 5/6 level, and that is fine: a child who has spent those years predicting what a loop will print is already practising the reasoning the BCC rewards. We teach with puzzles we write ourselves, labelled as ours, and send families to CEMC for past contests. One of ours for an eight-year-old: a sprite starts at 0 and repeats “add 3” seven times; where does it stop, and how many times would it need to repeat to pass 30? The [Beaver Computing Challenge guide](/beaver-computing-challenge-guide) covers every level, and the [Canada contest calendar](/canada-math-and-coding-contest-calendar) lists the rest of the year. Modern Age Coders has no tie to CEMC or the University of Waterloo. Class times ## Etobicoke class times, the 1 November clock change, and India time Etobicoke keeps Eastern time. Clocks go back on 1 November 2026 and forward on 14 March 2027, while India’s clock never moves, so the gap between the two changes by an hour. Our conversions, from the IANA time zone offsets (release 2026e): ### Weekday, 5:30 pm Until 1 November 2026 (Eastern at UTC-4) that is 3:00 am the next day in India. From 1 November to 14 March 2027 (UTC-5) it is 4:00 am the next day. ### Sunday, 11:00 am Until 1 November 2026 that is 8:30 pm the same day in India. During the winter months it is 9:30 pm, then 8:30 pm again from 14 March 2027. ### What we send Every Etobicoke family gets times in Eastern. Ahead of each change we confirm the next class again, because a child logging in an hour off is a lesson nobody needs. Etobicoke phone numbers use the City of Toronto area codes, 416 and 647, with 437 and 942 in the same area. Enter the ten digits in the form; the +1 is filled in already. For the full set of 2026 clock changes across Canada, including the provinces that stopped changing their clocks this year, see [Canada time zones in 2026](/canada-time-zones-2026-online-class-times). Learning ladder ## From a first pattern at 6 to a data chart at 12 Ages are rough guides; the free class places each child by what they can already do. Ages 6 and 7 ### First sequences Step-by-step block programs and unplugged games where a partner follows the instructions exactly. [Scratch Coding for Kids](/courses/scratch-programming-complete-course)[Coding for Kids](/courses/kids-coding-blocks-masterclass)Ages 8 and 9 ### Loops and patterns Repeat blocks, skip-counting programs and animated stories, the core of Grade 3 coding. [Scratch Coding for Kids](/courses/scratch-programming-complete-course)[App Making for Kids](/courses/block-coding-app-development-masterclass)Ages 10 and 11 ### Pages and Python Hand-built web pages and typed Python, with the public art decade chart as a first real data set. [Web Development for Kids](/courses/kids-ai-web-development-course)[Python and AI for Kids](/courses/python-ai-kids-masterclass)Age 12 ### Own projects Bigger programs the child designs, plus a teacher-led look at how AI systems learn from examples. [Python and AI for Kids](/courses/python-ai-kids-masterclass)[AI Literacy for Kids (Ages 8 to 14)](/courses/ai-literacy-for-kids-course)Coding and AI ## Does an Etobicoke child still need to code if AI can do it? Yes, because a child who can code can tell when the computer is wrong. The public art project shows it. A program that matched ward names would have reported 21 works and looked perfectly confident. Only someone who checked the result against the ward numbers noticed four were missing. AI tools make that kind of quiet mistake too, and the defence is a person who knows what the right answer should look like. We do not put adult chatbots in front of children under 13. Instead they learn, through teacher-led activities, how AI systems learn from examples and why they get things wrong. Most of each lesson is the child thinking: breaking a problem into steps, trying one, and checking whether it worked. Grade 3 asks children to spot what repeats in a pattern, and seeing structure for yourself is the skill that keeps a person in charge of the tools. The longer argument is in [the case for coding in an AI world](/blog/is-coding-worth-learning-2026). Delivery ## Live online classes for families across Etobicoke From the lakeshore wards to Etobicoke North, every child joins from home, so there is no drive along the Queensway or across to a centre after school. ### When classes run Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays. ### Batch or private A batch of fifteen to twenty children at one level, or a teacher for your child alone if they need a slower start or a faster track. ### Grouped carefully Children learn with others of a similar age and stage, and move up when they are ready rather than at a fixed date. ### Parents in the loop Younger children often have a parent nearby, and you are welcome to watch. After each stage the teacher tells you what was built and what is next. ### Equipment A laptop or desktop, keyboard and mouse, sound and a dependable connection. A tablet is fine for watching but hard work for coding. ### Free first lesson Your child takes a full lesson, and you get our suggestion for a course and level at the end. No card details are needed. No Etobicoke centre Modern Age Coders has no building in Etobicoke or anywhere in Toronto, and does not pretend to. All teaching is live and online, from India, by the teachers who also teach children in other countries. Fees ## Coding class fees for Etobicoke families Three options, and the currency appears beside each fee. First class**Free** One complete live lesson, free, after which we suggest a course, a level and a time. Group tuition**$140 CAD** The monthly fee for a place among fifteen to twenty children learning at the same level. Private tuition**$210 CAD** The monthly fee for a teacher working with your child alone, on a schedule you set. Etobicoke families pay the same rates as families anywhere in Canada. Billing begins only after the free lesson, once your family has picked a course and a weekly slot. Holidays and missed lessons are explained on the pricing page. Request placement[Check availability](https://wa.me/919123366161?text=Hello%20Modern%20Age%20Coders%2C%20I%20would%20like%20a%20free%20coding%20class%20for%20my%20child%20in%20Etobicoke.)Reviews ## Google reviews from parents and students 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 ## Ask for a free class for your Etobicoke child Share your child’s age and interests. A six-year-old might begin with a mirror game, an eight-year-old with a skip-counting loop, and a twelve-year-old with the public art file. ### 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. [Book a priority demo](/book-demo) ### Contact the team directly WhatsApp or call [+91 91233 66161](tel:+919123366161), or email [connect@modernagecoders.com](mailto:connect@modernagecoders.com). This is Modern Age Coders' actual contact, an Indian number, and not an invented Etobicoke one. [WhatsApp Modern Age Coders](https://wa.me/919123366161?text=Hello%20Modern%20Age%20Coders%2C%20I%20would%20like%20a%20free%20coding%20class%20for%20my%20child%20in%20Etobicoke.) Submitted details are used for placement and follow-up. FAQ ## Etobicoke parents’ questions The questions Etobicoke families send us most. ### Are there coding classes for kids in Etobicoke? Yes. We teach Etobicoke children live and online, so there is no centre to drive to. Your child joins a group of fifteen to twenty or learns one to one. ### What coding does my child do in Grade 3? Ontario Grade 3 math asks children to write and change code with repeating events, which usually means loops that build number or shape patterns. It is taught as part of math. ### Is my 6-year-old too young? No. Six, around Grade 1, is a good time to start with simple sequences and unplugged games. Our kids classes continue to age 12. ### Does my child need to read well to code? Not at first. Younger children work with blocks and pictures, and the teacher reads instructions aloud. Typing Python comes later, once reading is easy. ### Scratch, web pages or Python: which should we choose? For children under 9, usually Scratch. Children who love making things to show others often enjoy web pages from about 8. Python suits most children from 9 or 10. ### What times can my child take classes? Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays. Times are given in Eastern time. ### How does my child enter the Beaver Computing Challenge? Through school only. CEMC lists Monday 26 October 2026 as the ordering deadline for the November 2026 contest, so ask the teacher soon. The youngest level is for Grade 6 and below. ### Will my child use AI chatbots? No. Our students under 13 do not use adult chatbots, and ChatGPT needs a parent's permission for under-18s. Children learn how AI works through activities led by the teacher. ### Is there a classroom we can visit? No. Modern Age Coders has no Etobicoke premises. All classes are live online, which also means no travel time after school. ### How much do the classes cost? The fees block on this page lists the free first lesson and the monthly group and private options in your currency. You pay nothing until after the free lesson. More for Toronto families ## Other pages for Etobicoke and Toronto families For all ages across the city, read [coding and AI classes in Toronto](/coding-and-ai-classes-in-toronto). Two other parts of the city have kids pages of their own: [North York](/coding-classes-for-kids-in-north-york-toronto) and [Scarborough](/coding-classes-for-kids-in-scarborough-toronto). The province is covered on [coding classes in Ontario](/coding-classes-in-ontario), and the whole country on [coding classes in Canada](/coding-classes-in-canada). For the Grade 3 assessment, see [EQAO Grade 3 math practice](/eqao-grade-3-math-practice). 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