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the Scratch-to-Python year · 45-minute classes · a finished game every few weeks · since 2018
Coding Classes for 10 Year Olds, online 1-on-1
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Age 10
What a 10-year-old can learn to code, and what to skip
Ten is the best age to start coding, and the age at which most online coding classes for kids go wrong. A 10-year-old can hold a plan in their head, type a sentence, read an instruction on a screen and sit for forty-five minutes, which is everything Python needs; but a 10-year-old also gives up at the first red error message if nobody is there to say what it means. Group classes handle this by keeping the whole class in Scratch for another year; apps handle it by making the child drag blocks that look like Python. Neither teaches the child to write a program.
Our classes for 10-year-olds run in two stages. A child new to coding spends the first two to three months in Scratch building a game they designed (a maze, a catching game, a quiz), learning loops, conditions, variables and events by using them. Then Python, pictures first: turtle graphics, where a line of code draws a shape and the child sees the result immediately, then the number-guessing game, a quiz, a small text adventure. Forty-five minutes, one tutor, one child typing, the tutor reading every line. A child who already did Scratch at school starts at the Python stage in the second class.
Scratch, then first Python45-minute classesA game of their own by week 6Parents welcome in every class👩🏫 Master's-qualified · same tutor every week
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💵 What 1-on-1 coding costs, per hour
| Where you live | Per hour, 1-on-1 |
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| United States | US$10 to $13 |
| United Kingdom | £8 to £10 |
| Canada | C$14 to C$18 |
| Australia | A$14 to A$19 |
| UAE | AED 37 to 48 |
| Singapore | S$13 to S$17 |
| Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait | SAR 38 to 49 · QAR 37 to 47 · KWD 3 to 4 |
| Netherlands, Italy | €9 to €11 |
Forty-five-minute classes are billed as three-quarters of the hourly rate, monthly, no package. Full price table →
The year
A 10-year-old's first year of coding, in order
| Age and grade | Language | What the child builds | Why it is the right step |
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| 7 to 10 · Grades 2 to 5 | Scratch | Sprites that move and talk, a maze game, an animated story, a quiz with a score | Logic (loops, events, conditions) without typing or syntax errors; a finished game every few weeks |
| 10 to 13 · Grades 5 to 8 | Python | Turtle drawings, a number-guessing game, a quiz, a text adventure, small data tools | The first typed language, taught slowly enough that the child can write a program alone |
| 12 to 16 · Grades 7 to 11 | Web development | A real website, published: HTML structure, CSS layout, JavaScript buttons and forms | Something to show, and the language of every app the child uses |
| 14 to 18 · Grades 9 to 12 | Java and AP Computer Science A | Classes and objects, arrays, recursion, the AP free-response patterns | The school CS course and the AP exam in May; the way universities teach |
| 13 to 18 · Grades 8 to 12 | AI and machine learning | What a model is, training one in Python on real data, the questions to ask of any AI | Built on Python; a project the child can explain |
| 15 to 18 · Grades 10 to 12 | AP Computer Science Principles | The Create performance task and the five big ideas | AP CSP, the gentler AP; counts for college credit |
The order matters more than the pace. A child who learns loops and conditions in Scratch, where nothing has to be typed, writes them in Python without fear; a child pushed into Python syntax first spends the year fighting colons and indentation.
is my 10-year-old ready?
✅ Five signs a child is ready for typed coding
- Types a short sentence without hunting for every key
- Reads an instruction on a screen and follows it without being read to
- Can explain the rules of a game they play
- Sits with one task for thirty minutes when it is going well
- Has done, or would enjoy, Scratch or a block-coding app
class times · your time zone
🕒 When the classes are, by region
| Where | Your time | In India | |
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| UAE and Oman (1.5 h behind India) | 4 to 7 pm | 5:30 to 8:30 pm | the same tutor all year |
| Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain (2.5 h behind) | 4 to 7 pm | 6:30 to 9:30 pm | the same tutor all year |
| Singapore and Malaysia (2.5 h ahead) | 4 to 7 pm | 1:30 to 4:30 pm | an Indian afternoon |
| United Kingdom (4.5 to 5.5 h behind) | 4 to 7 pm | 8:30 pm to 12:30 am | evening tutors |
| United States and Canada (9.5 to 13.5 h behind) | 7 am before school; after 4 pm; weekend mornings | early morning and late evening in India | our early-morning tutors |
| Australia and New Zealand (2.5 to 7.5 h ahead) | 4 to 7 pm | late morning to afternoon | the easiest match |
how a coding class runs
💻 Sixty minutes, one child typing
- Five minutes: last week's program, run together, bugs found aloud
- Ten minutes: one new idea, shown on the shared screen with the tutor typing live
- Thirty minutes: the child types, the tutor watches every line and stops the error where it happens
- Ten minutes: the next piece of the project planned, in the child's words
- After class: the recording, the code and a short note to the parent
For a child under 11 the class is 45 minutes. Parents are welcome in every class, and the code and the recording arrive after each one.
what the child needs
🧰 The checklist
- A laptop or desktop with a keyboard and mouse (a tablet is fine for Scratch, not for Python)
- Scratch 3 runs in the browser, free; Python 3 with Thonny or VS Code, free, installed together in the first class
- A Google or Microsoft account for the shared screen
- Forty-five minutes for a child under 11, sixty from about 11
- Nothing paid up front: the first class is free
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🔒 Parents in the room, always
A team of 20+ women educators with master's degrees, teaching online from Chandigarh since 2018. Every class is recorded and the recording is yours; parents can sit in on any class; the tutor never contacts the child outside the class; the code lives in the child's own account. Nothing is paid up front: the first class is free and you decide afterwards.
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Our promises
What every parent in your country can count on
Eight commitments, in plain words. Hold us to them.
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Meet the tutor before you pay
You only book paid classes after the demo, with the tutor you met.
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Not the right fit? We fix it
Switch to another tutor free, or the first paid class is refunded. Just tell us.
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Reschedule free with 24 hours' notice
Life happens — move a class a day ahead at no charge.
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A note home after every class
What we covered, what your child mastered, what to practise before next time.
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Monthly progress review
A short parent call each month: results, gaps, next goals. Result-focused, exam-smart practice.
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No long-term contract
Simple monthly plans. Pause or adjust any time.
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We reply within 24 hours
WhatsApp, call or email — every message answered, in English, Hindi or Punjabi.
Knowledge base
Parents ask about coding classes
1Is 10 too young for Python?
No, if the child has done some Scratch and can type; a child of 10 who meets the five signs on this page learns Python well. It is too young for a child who has never coded and is a slow typist, who should start in Scratch for a term. The free class finds out which in twenty minutes.
2How long are classes for a 10-year-old?
Forty-five minutes, once or twice a week. An hour is possible for a child who asks for it; most 10-year-olds do their best work in the first forty minutes, and the class ends while they still want more.
3What will my child be able to do after a year?
Build a Scratch game from a blank project; write a Python program of thirty to fifty lines alone (a quiz, a guessing game, a drawing); read an error message and know where to look; explain what a loop and a variable are in their own words. Those four are what a 12-year-old needs to start web development or a bigger Python project.
4What age should a child start coding classes?
About 7 for Scratch, where the logic is in blocks and nothing has to be typed; about 10 to 11 for Python, once the child can type a sentence without hunting for keys and reads instructions on a screen comfortably. A 13-year-old who has never coded starts in Python directly. The free class finds the right starting point in twenty minutes.
5Scratch or Python first?
Under 10, Scratch: the child learns loops, conditions, variables and events by building games, and syntax errors do not exist. From 10 or 11, Python, where the same ideas are typed. A child who has done a year of Scratch moves to Python in about six weeks because the ideas are already there.
6Why 1-on-1 rather than a group coding class?
Because coding is learned by typing, not by watching. In a group class of six to ten the tutor's screen does the coding and the children follow; the child who is stuck waits, and the child who is ahead waits too. In a 1-on-1 class the child types for most of the hour and the tutor reads every line as it is written, which is the only way to catch the habit behind the bug.
7Who teaches, and how do I know they can code?
Tutors with a master's degree who teach Python, Java and web development every week, the same tutor for your child all year, on a shared screen where you can see the code. Sit in on the free class, ask the tutor to build something small live, and read the code afterwards; it will be in the recording.
8What does my child need?
A laptop or desktop with a keyboard and a mouse. Scratch runs in the browser; Python and the editor are free and installed together in the first class. A tablet works for Scratch, not for typed languages.
9How much does it cost, and is the first class free?
The same hourly rate as every subject we teach: about US$10 to $13 an hour, in your currency, billed monthly, no package, with the recording and the code after every class. The first class is a free 30-minute lesson with you in the room; after it we send a short plan and the exact rate, and you decide.