What do vibe coding and AI agents classes teach City of Monash learners?
How to build with an AI and then prove its answers right, step by step, before anyone relies on them. The City of Monash suits careful builders: the 2021 Census counted 190,397 residents, and 66,197 adults, 41.2%, had a university degree, well above the 29.2% statewide.
An agent asked about the City of Monash's eight train stations will answer every question confidently. Some answers will be right, some will come from last year's file, and some will be rounded so far that they stop being true. The fix is not a better agent but a second step that throws the agent's numbers away and works each one out again from the source.
Facts last verified 10 October 2026. Teaching is online; no City of Monash branch is claimed.
Every course below teaches learners to check an AI's output, the skill behind the verifier project. The free first class fixes where to start, and any Copilot Studio work happens one to one.

Build with an AI, then write the checks that prove the result.
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Using AI tools well, including spotting confident wrong answers.
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Full projects built with AI help, reviewed and tested line by line.
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Automations that verify their own numbers before reporting them.
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The four we are known for
These run underneath everything above. Every one is live and online, placed by ability rather than by age, and the first class is free.

Python, web and AI projects where the learner still owns the thinking.
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Automate the work you already do, then let AI carry part of it.
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Train a model, read what it learned, and be able to say why it is wrong.
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Run AI coding agents on real work without losing control of the codebase.
See the syllabusFigures for the City of Monash local government area (ABS code LGA24970) from the 2021 Census QuickStats, set beside Victoria. Suburbs within it, such as Glen Waverley and Clayton, have pages of their own.
| Headline | City of Monash |
|---|---|
| Residents | 190,397 |
| Median age | 38 |
| Families | 50,528 |
| Private dwellings | 76,177 |
| Average people per household | 2.7 |
| Measure | City of Monash | Victoria |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a bachelor degree or higher | 41.2% (66,197) | 29.2% |
| Workers employed as professionals | 32.0% (29,473) | 25.0% |
| Workers who took the train | 2.6% (2,375) | 1.6% |
| Workers who took the bus | 1.2% (1,102) | 0.6% |
| Flats or apartments | 15.2% (10,187) | 12.1% |
The bureau measures the council area at 81.48 square kilometres in Melbourne's south-east.
The Census counted 11,078 residents aged 15 to 19, 5.8% of the population, a touch above the Victorian 5.6%.
Census day fell in the August 2021 lockdown, when 29,062 employed residents, 31.6%, worked from home.
QuickStats adjusts small cells for privacy, which means the parts of a table may not reach its total. We quote figures as published and do not add council parts together.
We placed every metropolitan station on the council boundary map and found eight inside. We then wrote 26 questions about them and a deliberately sloppy test agent with five planted habits. A verifier recalculated each answer from the FY24-25 station file.
| Station | Entries |
|---|---|
| Oakleigh | 1,624,200 |
| Huntingdale | 1,590,050 |
| Clayton | 1,514,000 |
| Syndal | 698,100 |
| Mount Waverley | 658,250 |
| Hughesdale | 555,350 |
| Jordanville | 388,950 |
| Glen Waverley | In the file; covered on its own page |
| Question type | Asked | Agent wrong | Exact check flagged | 5% tolerance flagged |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entries for a station | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Busiest station | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Growth on the year before | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Entries, rounded by the agent | 8 | 8 | 8 | 2 |
| Find a station by name | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
The agent named the first station in alphabetical order, Clayton. Recomputed from the file, the busiest is Oakleigh with 1,624,200 entries.
Rounded to the nearest 100,000, Hughesdale became 600,000 against a true 555,350, 8.0% out. Syndal's 700,000 was only 0.3% out.
Asked about "Waverley station", the agent matched part of a name and answered for Glen Waverley. No station is called just Waverley.
Allowing 5% of slack sounds reasonable, but it let 10 of the 18 wrong answers through, including a growth figure built on the wrong year. Exact comparison against the source caught all 18. There is a limit, though: for four stations the agent's wrong growth formula still rounded to the right one-decimal answer, so a verifier that checks answers cannot catch a broken method. Test the method separately.
The agent, its habits, the 26 questions and the verifier are ours, so the counts describe our test, not any commercial assistant. Station figures are the department's published estimates.
A verifier is a second step in an agent's loop. It ignores how the first answer was produced and recalculates it from the source.
| Habit | Effect | Caught by recomputation? |
|---|---|---|
| Reads the previous year's file | Entries off by up to 12.5% | Yes |
| Takes the first row instead of sorting | Wrong busiest station | Yes |
| Divides growth by the new year | Small errors, sometimes none after rounding | Only when the rounded answer changes |
| Rounds to the nearest 100,000 | Errors from 0.3% to 8.0% | Yes, with an exact check |
| Matches part of a name | Answers about the wrong station | Yes |
In code the verifier is short: for each claim in the answer, look up the same figure in the file, compare, and reject the answer if anything differs. The hard part is deciding what counts as different, which is why we tested both exact and 5% rules.
Check a partner's sums with a calculator and mark which ones were close but wrong.
Write the sloppy agent and the verifier in Python, then add a sixth habit and see if it is caught.
Add a recompute step to any report an assistant drafts from a spreadsheet before it is sent.
More from the state files for the whole council area.
The 2025 school locations file puts 54 open schools inside the council boundary: 34 primary, 13 secondary, 2 combined and 5 specialist.
Of those 54 schools, 37 are government, 13 Catholic and 4 independent.
Jordanville had the fewest entries of the council's stations in FY24-25, 388,950.
School terms, 2027
Victorian government school students return on Thursday 28 January 2027. Term 2 runs from Monday 12 April to Friday 25 June.
Treat each band loosely; a trial lesson shows where a learner really sits.
Games that keep score and test whether the score is right.
Scratch Coding for KidsVibe Coding for KidsFirst programs, and learning that an AI can be confidently wrong.
Python and AI for KidsAI Literacy for Kids (Ages 8 to 14)Building with AI and writing the tests that hold it to account.
Vibe Coding for TeensAI Tools Course for Teens (13+)Agents and automations that check their figures before sharing them.
Vibe Coding for CollegePython Automation CourseBecause a better agent makes fewer mistakes, not none, and the remaining ones look exactly like right answers.
Our test agent never refused a question and never hedged. Its rounded figures were plausible, its wrong-year entries were real numbers from a real file, and its name match found a real station. Reading the answers, nothing looked off.
A learner who has written a verifier knows the uncomfortable result: the lenient check felt sensible and missed most of the errors. That learner will ask what checks an agent's work before trusting it, which is the question every team using agents needs someone to ask.
The City of Monash learner who builds the checker is the one whose agents can be relied on. The longer argument is in why teenagers should still learn to code in 2026.
Every lesson is live online, so learners anywhere in the council area join from home.
The learner opens a link, shares a screen and the teacher reads the code as it is written.
Plans follow the Victorian school year and break for the state school holidays.
The first lesson is a full class at no cost, followed by a suggested course and time.
Learners are grouped by level and pace, from many parts of Australia.
Two lessons every week, roughly eight a month, with planned breaks agreed early.
Our teachers are in India: a 4:30pm lesson in Melbourne's summer is 11am India time, and noon once daylight saving ends.
Daylight saving
Melbourne clocks went forward on Sunday 4 October 2026 and go back on Sunday 4 April 2027. India keeps the same time all year, so every lesson time we give is Melbourne time.
Three amounts, given in full.
The opening lesson is free, followed by a candid recommendation.
A month of group lessons, typically eight, with fifteen to twenty learners at a matched level.
About eight lessons a month taught one to one.
Families outside India pay in US dollars, the same rate wherever they live. Invoices start once the trial has chosen a course and a slot; holidays, absences and format changes are explained on the pricing page.
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Message us with an age and a favourite hobby. A nine-year-old might start by checking a Scratch game's scoring; a Year 11 student might start by writing the station verifier.
Questions City of Monash parents and adult learners raise most.
The 2021 Census QuickStats for the City of Monash record 190,397 residents in 50,528 families, with a median age of 38.
A step that takes the agent's answer and checks it independently, usually by recomputing each figure from the source, before the answer is accepted.
Because it tends to repeat the same mistake. A verifier that ignores the agent's method and recalculates from the data catches errors the agent cannot see.
Our test agent got 18 of 26 station questions wrong. An exact verifier flagged all 18; one allowing 5% slack flagged only 8.
Building software by describing it to an AI in plain words, then testing and fixing what it writes. We spend most lesson time on the testing.
No. Our groups build agents in Python; Copilot Studio is reserved for one-to-one teaching.
No. We teach only live online, have no Australian premises, and the phone number shown here is an Indian number.
The first lesson is free. Group classes then cost USD 100 a month for two live lessons a week, about eight a month, with fifteen to twenty learners, or USD 150 a month one to one. Course, format and time are agreed before payment.
Fifteen to twenty, grouped by level, pace and goals; private lessons are available if no group time fits.
Yes. Adults learn in adult groups or one to one, often with a reporting job in mind that they want an agent to do accurately.
Within the council area, Glen Waverley has a suburb page of its own. Younger children can begin with kids coding in Melbourne, and the Victoria guide covers the state.