Experience Level
Experience Levels
Whether your child is new to coding or already building their own games and websites, our classes will promote their growth within a safe, supportive environment. By challenging students at their individual level to create projects as unique as they are, we underscore the power of personalized learning.
While our classes are tailored to each of the experience levels below, our student-centered approach creates a fully personalized education experience, allowing students to be challenged at their individual level and pace. No matter where they’ve started, we’re here to help them get where they want to go.
Students will
- Build and tinker with hands-on engineering challenges
- Explore foundational coding concepts through play
- Develop pattern recognition and logical thinking
- Practice problem-solving without screens
Early Engineers
Ages 4-5
A screen-free introduction to coding and engineering for pre-K learners. Through hands-on building, play, and guided exploration, young engineers develop spatial reasoning, pattern recognition, logical thinking, and early problem-solving skills — all before touching a keyboard.
Every activity is designed to spark curiosity and build the foundational thinking that makes learning to code easier later on.
Young Beginner Code
Ages 6-8, co-ed
For first-time coders, we start with the fundamentals — building digital literacy and early computational thinking through beginner-friendly coding platforms before advancing into Scratch, where students build their own animations and games.
No prior experience needed.
Students will
- Develop foundational computational thinking skills
- Build confidence with technology and digital tools
- Create animations and games in Scratch
Students will:
- Build logical thinking skills through block-based programming
- Create cool games and animations
- Refine their computational thinking skills to tackle more complex problems
Beginner Code
Ages 8-13, co-ed
In our Beginner course, we use Scratch challenge projects as our core curriculum. By starting in Scratch, a block-based coding language, we skip over the small syntactic details of text-based languages and cut directly to the difficult part of coding: formulating one’s ideas into a logical sequence of steps. Students can jump into this class with no prior programming knowledge and in just a few hours build a foundational understanding of core computer science concepts through building games and animations. As they progress through this course, they’ll continue to learn essential programming constructs and develop a computational thought process that will prepare them for more advanced material.
Intermediate Code
Ages 8-13, co-ed
Students with a solid Scratch foundation take the next step — pushing into advanced Scratch projects before transitioning to WoofJS, The Coding Space's own JavaScript learning platform. WoofJS is built specifically to bridge the gap between block-based and text-based coding, so the transition feels natural.
By the end, students are writing real JavaScript and building projects that couldn't exist in Scratch.
Prerequisites: advanced understanding of Scratch.
Students will:
- Build advanced projects in Scratch & JavaScript
- Write real JavaScript for the first time
- Develop computational thinking through increasingly complex projects
Students will:
- Build web applications in JavaScript
- Create programs in Python
- Solve complex problems using algorithms and object-oriented programming
- Use AI tools to extend and enhance their own projects
Advanced Code
Ages 10-13, co-ed
Students who already know the basics go further, building real web applications in JavaScript, tackling complex problems in Python, and learning to work with APIs and data the way professional developers do.
Projects get harder, problems get more open-ended, and the thinking required gets increasingly complex.
Prerequisites: prior experience in JavaScript, Python, or a similar text-based language.
Teen Code
Ages 13-17, co-ed
For teens who are ready to code like developers. Students work in JavaScript and Python, building real websites, games, and applications with the language and projects tailored to their experience level.
Beginners start with JavaScript through WoofJS, our own learning platform. More experienced coders go deeper, working with HTML, CSS, APIs, and databases to build complex projects. The most advanced students tackle Python, data, and real-world problem solving.
Students will:
- Build websites, games, and applications in JavaScript and Python
- Work with APIs, databases, and data
- Tackle increasingly complex projects at their own level
- Think and problem-solve like a software engineer
Find Your Child’s Perfect Fit
Still unsure where your child should begin? Visit our classes page where you can check your child's experience, interests, and skills.
