--- title: "Coding Classes in County Mayo | Modern Age Coders" description: "Live online coding, Python and AI classes across County Mayo, from Castlebar and Ballina to Westport, Claremorris and Belmullet, ages 6 to 67. First lesson free." canonical: https://learn.modernagecoders.com/coding-classes-in-county-mayo source: src/pages/coding-classes-in-county-mayo.html --- > Live online coding, Python and AI classes across County Mayo, from Castlebar and Ballina to Westport, Claremorris and Belmullet, ages 6 to 67. First lesson free. Skip to contentCourse picks for County Mayo ## Four ways in Every one starts with a free lesson from the teacher who would take the course. No card details are collected before a family decides. [![Scratch Coding for Kids course thumbnail](/images/scratch-kids.webp)Ages 6 to 10Scratch Coding for KidsScratch games that keep both a score and a percentage, and show how the two can move apart.See the syllabus](/courses/scratch-programming-complete-course)[![Maths Through Coding course thumbnail](/images/maths-through-coding.webp)Ages 9 to 13Maths Through CodingFractions, ratios and percentages taught by writing programs that calculate them.See the syllabus](/courses/maths-through-coding)[![Data Science for Teens course thumbnail](/images/data-science-teens.webp)Ages 14 to 18Data Science for TeensReal census tables where the count rises and the share falls, and the sentence that explains it.See the syllabus](/courses/data-science-course-for-teens-python-data)[![Data and AI Analytics for Non-Programmers (Excel, Sheets, Power BI) course thumbnail](/images/data-ai-analytics-non-programmers.webp)College and adultData and AI Analytics for Non-Programmers (Excel, Sheets, Power BI)For adults who have to present numbers that sound contradictory and are not.See the syllabus](/courses/data-and-ai-analytics-for-non-programmers-course) 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)Signature project ## More people, smaller share Four real Mayo measurements. In three of them a count and a rate move in different directions. | Measure | The count | The rate | | --- | --- | --- | | Irish in the Mayo Gaeltacht | Population up 129 people to 10,515 | Speakers down 3 per cent | | Irish across the county | Speakers up by over 1,200 to 56,346 | Share down from 44.7% to 44.3% | | Employment | Up 13% to more than 58,300 at work | Participation 57%, against 61% nationally | | Third level education | Up from almost 29,300 to just over 37,000 | Up too, from 33% to 39% | ### The mechanism A rate has two numbers in it. If the bottom one grows faster than the top one, the rate falls even while the top one grows. More people can speak Irish in Mayo than in 2016 and a slightly smaller fraction of the county can, at the same time, because the county itself grew by 7,463. ### The fourth row matters most Third level went up on both measures. Including a case where the two agree stops a learner over-applying the lesson and deciding every statistic is a trick. ### What a learner writes For each headline: what is being counted, what it is being divided by, which of the two moved, and one sentence a reader could not misunderstand. ### Why this is worth an afternoon of a fifteen year old's life Almost every argument conducted with numbers in public turns on this. One side quotes the count because it is rising. The other quotes the rate because it is falling. Both sides are accurate, both are selective, and the audience concludes that statistics can prove anything. They cannot. A count and a rate answer different questions, and choosing between them is where the honesty lives. A young person who can spot which one is on the slide in front of them has a defence that lasts for life, and it takes one afternoon and a real table to build. One footnote from the same source, because it is the sort of detail this project trains people to notice. The statistics office records the Mayo Gaeltacht's growth of 129 people as the lowest rate of increase of any Gaeltacht area. That is a third kind of statement again, a rank rather than a count or a rate, and it comes with its own question: lowest among how many, and measured over what period. Learners are asked to write down what they would need to check before repeating it. The county today ## Three towns and a very long coast All quoted from Central Statistics Office releases that name Mayo. | Counted | Number | | --- | --- | | People in the county | 137,970, up 7,463 since 2016 | | Children aged 15 and under | 26,362, of whom 8,637 were in childcare | | Average age | 41.6 years, well above the national 38.8 | | Born in the county | 89,416 people, 66% of residents | | Born outside the State | 25,307 people, 19%, up from 17% in 2016 | | Holding dual Irish citizenship | 4,557, up from 2,462 in 2016 | ### Castlebar and Ballina Castlebar holds 13,054 people at 1,575.8 per square kilometre, Ballina 10,556 at 1,290.8. Ballina is the younger of the two, with 21.2% of residents under 15 against Castlebar's 19.1%. ### Westport 6,872 people spread over 9.5 square kilometres at just 723.4 per square kilometre, with an average age of 41.5, which makes it the roomiest and the oldest of the three. ### Town against area The electoral areas named after them are far larger: Castlebar 32,080, Ballina 25,858 and Westport 19,947, the difference in each case being the countryside around the town. The extremes are striking. Among places of at least 500 people, Ballyhaunis has the youngest average age in the county at 35.1 years and Keel-Dooagh on Achill the oldest at 53. Mayo is also unusual in that its largest group of non-Irish citizens is British, at 3,898 people, ahead of Polish at 2,131, Lithuanian at 819 and Indian at 562, where most counties in this cluster have Polish citizens in front. Study and work ## One listed school, one university campus, and a participation rate Where a Mayo learner can go, and what the county's working patterns look like. ### The 2018 list Rice College is Mayo's single entry on the first national list for Leaving Certificate Computer Science. The department published its address as Castlebar Road, Westport, and that is a street in Westport rather than a reference to the town of Castlebar, which is the sort of thing that trips up anyone matching addresses by name. ### ATU Mayo Its own site describes a Castlebar campus of roughly 1,000 students at Westport Road, eircode F23 X853, in a building it has occupied since 1994 and the first institute of technology campus in Ireland to be awarded Green Campus status, in 2011. ### The Gaeltacht The Mayo Gaeltacht holds 10,515 people, of whom 10,196 are aged three and over and 5,956 can speak Irish. Our classes are taught in English, and every programming language uses English keywords, so a pupil from a Gaeltacht school starts level with everyone else. | What the CSO reported | Figure | | --- | --- | | People aged 15 and over | More than 111,600 | | At work | More than 58,300, up 13% since 2016 | | Labour force participation | 57% against 61% nationally, the joint lowest rate in the country | | Male participation | Also joint lowest nationally, alongside Donegal | | Working from home at least one day a week | 13,894 people, 24% of the workforce against 32% nationally | | Average journey to work | 25.1 minutes, up from 23.3 minutes in 2016 | What a low participation rate is not A participation rate counts people who are working or looking for work as a share of everyone aged 15 and over. Mayo has an older population than most, an average age of 41.6 against 38.8 nationally, and retired people are outside the labour force by definition. So part of that 57% is demography rather than anything about the county's appetite for work. Saying so is not spin. It is the difference between reading a statistic and repeating it, which is the whole subject of this page. The county's own data ## Two datasets, and a server that never answered A short, honest account of what happened when we went looking. ### What is listed Mayo County Council has two dataset records on the national portal, municipal districts and bring bank recycling facilities, both licensed for reuse. ### What happened Both point at the council's own mapping server rather than a file. We asked that server three times, over two different protocols, and it did not answer once. Not refused, not empty. Silent. ### What we can say That the data was unreachable from outside on the day we tried, and nothing whatsoever about what it contains. Reporting an unreachable source as an empty one would be a straightforward error. We are not connected with Mayo County Council, Atlantic Technological University, Rice College or any school named here. Population, language, education and employment figures are quoted from Central Statistics Office releases naming Mayo, with Gaeltacht figures kept separate from county figures because they measure different areas. The account of the unreachable server is a plain description of requests we made and the responses we did not get. Internet access figures exist only for the West region as a whole, covering Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, at 92% of households connected and 83% on fixed broadband, and we do not restate them as Mayo figures. Learning ladder ## From counting to comparing properly Ages are a guide. The free lesson decides where someone starts. Ages 6 to 10 ### How many, out of how many Programs that keep both a total and a fraction, and show them changing together. [Scratch Coding for Kids](/courses/scratch-programming-complete-course)[Coding for Kids](/courses/kids-coding-blocks-masterclass)Ages 11 to 13 ### Percentages that mislead Working out what a percentage is divided by before believing it. [Maths Through Coding](/courses/maths-through-coding)[Python and AI for Kids](/courses/python-ai-kids-masterclass)Ages 14 to 18 ### Counts, rates and ranks Three different kinds of claim, on real tables, with the right sentence written for each. [Data Science for Teens](/courses/data-science-course-for-teens-python-data)[Python for Teens](/courses/python-complete-masterclass-teens)Ages 18 to 67 ### Presenting honestly Choosing which measure to lead with and saying why, so nobody can accuse you of picking. [Data and AI Analytics for Non-Programmers (Excel, Sheets, Power BI)](/courses/data-and-ai-analytics-for-non-programmers-course)[Python Automation Course](/courses/python-ai-automation-masterclass-college)Coding and AI ## Ask whether Irish is growing in Mayo and watch the answer pick a side There are two true answers and a generated one will usually give you whichever it met most often. More people in Mayo can speak Irish than in 2016. A smaller share of the county can. Both come from the same official paragraph. A short answer has room for one of them, and nothing in the wording will tell you that the other exists or that the two are perfectly compatible. The learner who has done this project asks a different question, almost automatically: is that a count or a rate, and what is it divided by. It takes seconds and it turns a confident sentence into something you can actually check. None of that is about distrusting tools. It is about knowing which shape of question you asked, which stays the reader's job no matter how good the answers get. The longer argument is in [whether coding is still worth learning in 2026](/blog/is-coding-worth-learning-2026). Delivery ## What the class looks like from Achill or Ballyhaunis Six practical points, stated plainly. ### A live teacher, weekly One hour with a person who asks questions and waits for the answer, not a video to watch alone. ### No journey at either end Belmullet to Castlebar is over an hour each way. The class that requires none of that is the one still running at Easter. ### Ability groups of five to ten Learners placed at one level, drawn from Mayo and several countries, so the group is a genuine match rather than whoever turned up. ### What a household needs A laptop or desktop, working sound and a connection good enough for video, which the free lesson tests directly. ### Irish school year Junior Cycle, Transition Year and senior cycle, with mid-terms and exam weeks built into the plan. ### When we teach Afternoons, evenings and weekend mornings. Our teaching team sits several hours ahead of Irish time, which is what keeps those hours staffed. For the west of the county Achill, Belmullet, Louisburgh and Killala are a long way from anywhere with an after-school computing option, and Keel-Dooagh has an average age of 53, which tells you something about how few teenagers are within reach of each other out there. An online group gathers learners who would otherwise never be in a room together, and it does it at a fixed hour on a Tuesday. Fees ## Fees in Mayo Three figures, with the conditions written down rather than implied. First class**USD 0** A complete first lesson at no charge, which also proves the connection. Group tuition**USD 100** A month of group classes, around eight lessons, five to ten learners at one level. Private tuition**USD 150** A month of one to one teaching on the same weekly pattern. We charge monthly in US dollars, the one rate used outside India, so Belmullet pays what Castlebar pays and there is no second price list. Nothing is taken until a course and a weekly hour are agreed. The pricing page covers pauses, missed lessons and moving between group and one to one. 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The first hour is built around that, whether it is a Scratch game that tracks a score and a percentage at once, or a census table that appears to contradict itself. ### Contact the team directly WhatsApp or call [+91 91233 66161](tel:+919123366161), or email [contact@modernagecoders.com](mailto:contact@modernagecoders.com). This is Modern Age Coders' actual contact, an Indian number, and not an invented County Mayo one. [WhatsApp Modern Age Coders](https://wa.me/919123366161?text=Hello%20Modern%20Age%20Coders%2C%20I%20want%20a%20free%20coding%20class%20for%20a%20learner%20in%20County%20Mayo.) Submitted details are used for placement and follow-up. FAQ ## County Mayo coding class questions What Mayo families ask us before starting. ### How many people live in County Mayo? The 2022 census counted 137,970, an increase of 7,463 since 2016, including 26,362 children aged 15 and under. ### What is the Mayo data project? Students take four Mayo measurements apart into counts and rates, including a Gaeltacht that gained 129 residents while its number of Irish speakers fell by 3 per cent, and write one unambiguous sentence for each. ### How big are Castlebar, Ballina and Westport? Castlebar held 13,054 people in 2022, Ballina 10,556 and Westport 6,872. The electoral areas of the same names are much larger, at 32,080, 25,858 and 19,947. ### Do you teach children from the Mayo Gaeltacht? Yes. Of the 10,515 people living there, 5,956 can speak Irish. We teach in English and every programming language uses English keywords, so nobody starts at a disadvantage. ### Which Mayo school first offered Leaving Certificate Computer Science? Rice College, published on the January 2018 list at Castlebar Road, Westport. Castlebar Road is a street in Westport, not the town of Castlebar. ### Is broadband good enough in Mayo? No county figure is published. For the West region as a whole, covering Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, 92% of households have an internet connection and 83% have fixed broadband. The free lesson tests your own line, which is the only test that counts. ### When do classes run? Afternoons, evenings and weekend mornings, at an hour fixed during the free lesson. Our teaching team works several hours ahead of Irish time. ### Is there a Modern Age Coders classroom in County Mayo? No, and we never imply one. Teaching is live over video only, with no premises in Ireland. A learner needs a laptop or desktop, working sound and a steady connection, and the number shown here belongs to India. ### What do County Mayo coding classes cost? The first lesson is free. After that a shared place costs USD 100 a month and brings two live lessons a week, about eight monthly, with five to ten learners; one to one on the same schedule is USD 150 a month. Everything is agreed before payment. ### How many learners are in a group? Five to ten, grouped by ability, pace and goal rather than age or address. Where nothing suitable meets at a workable hour, we teach one to one instead. Explore Ireland ## Across Connacht Mayo's neighbours with their own pages are [County Galway](/coding-classes-in-county-galway) and the city of [Galway](/best-coding-class-in-galway) to the south. For a comparison of online schools, read [best online coding classes in Ireland](/best-online-coding-classes-ireland), and every page in the cluster is listed on the [Ireland coding page](/coding-classes-in-ireland). 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