FAQs Kids Coding Courses

Our CEO and Co-Founder Lauren Nguyen, JD/MBA, is a seasoned education entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience building world class education programs. She co-founded CodaKid in 2014 and has helped lead CodaKid’s growth from a small brick and mortar kids coding academy to an online coding school with students in over 120 countries.

Our Director and Co-founder David Dodge is a game designer and software architect who began working in product development for SEGA in the early 90s, and who later designed top-rated games for the Sony PlayStation and the PC. David is credited on over 30 titles for SEGA, Sony, and PC. David leads product development, marketing, and school partnerships at CodaKid.

CodaKid is a kids coding platform that teaches kids how to use real programming languages and professional tools by creating games, coding apps, programming drones, building websites, and more.

CodaKid will make every effort to ensure that your child or teen has the same teacher each week. In the event that there is a family emergency or a seasonal change, we may need to find a new instructor. We will work with you and your student to make sure that the new instructor is a fit and guarantee your satisfaction.

In the event that you do not like CodaKid, we offer a full money-back guarantee within your first 2 sessions.

Once you have completed your call with our Enrollment Specialist, you will be billed for your first month’s tuition. In the event that you do not like CodaKid, we offer a full money-back guarantee within your first 2 sessions.

If your student is an absolute beginner, we recommend our Private plan so we can give him or her a personalized introduction to computer programming.
If your student is a natural born techie who wants to learn how to become an independent game developer, web programmer, or game designer as quickly as possible, we recommend our Private Accelerated plan.

The first step is to book a 15 minute call with a CodaKid Enrollment Manager. In this exploratory call, we will discuss our program, learn about your child or teen, and if desired book a first session.

CodaKid offers online support 7 days a week! For the quickest responses, please contact us any time Monday- Friday.

Yes! Our courses are designed for children as young as 7. Children younger than 7 may take them, but may need more support from our instructors or a parent. We have also had a number of adult students take our self-study video courses with a lot of great success.

Absolutely! Our introductory and beginner courses (labeled as ‘INTRO’ and ‘BEG’ on the platform) are designed for students with little to no experience. These courses start off slower and ramp up steadily. Videos can be rewound and re-watched if necessary, and the video speed can be slowed down or sped up to best accommodate different speeds. Our online instructional team is available for additional help when needed. Intermediate and Advanced courses build upon the foundation established in the beginner courses. It is highly recommended that students complete the introductory and beginner courses in each path prior to taking a higher level course.

Most of our courses can be completed within a couple of hours based on the student’s desire to build and customize their game. That said, many of our more intermediate and advanced courses can take upwards of 20 hours to complete. The amount of time it takes your child to complete any given project will depend on the course and the child’s speed.

We offer both options through two great programs: our self-study video courses and our private online tutoring.

Our self-paced program can be taken anytime – on your schedule. Students will watch HD video lessons, pause the videos, code, design, and then test their work. Our friendly instructional team is there every step of the way with awesome, award-winning support! Just use our handy chat button inside the learning platform or email the support team.

Our private tutoring program will connect you with one of our excellent, US-based instructors from one of the top 50 universities in the country. Your instructor will guide your child through our award-winning curriculum using the Mastery Method- our unique, Socratic approach towards teaching coding.

CodaKid teaches Python, JavaScript, Java, Lua, Scratch, C#, HTML, CSS, and the Unreal Blueprints scripting language – with more on the way! With CodaKid, students gain experience writing real code using the same tools that the pros use. We have a unique way of making our courses accessible to absolute beginners as young as age 7. We hope you’ll give them a try!

CodaKid is based in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona in the United States.

Yes! CodaKid provides a free trial for both our self-study and private tutoring programs.

For our self-study, we provide a 14 day free trial with unlimited access to all of our courses. If you like our service, just stay on past the 14 days and your card will be automatically billed on day 14, then every 30 days until you decide to cancel. Otherwise, you can cancel at any time during your 14 trial and pay nothing.

For our private tutoring program, we offer a free session to every new family. If you decide to continue after your trial, we will charge your card right before your 2nd session and every month thereafter until you decide to cancel.

CodaKid’s award-winning courses feature . Our online academy has taught over 50,000 kids and teens how to program using the same professional languages and tools used by professionals at companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon. CodaKid has two great ways to learn how to code:

1) Our self-paced online courses

2) Our private 1-on-1 online lessons.

CodaKid’s self-paced online courses are great for self-starters and feature over 700 hours of student projects. CodaKid also provides awesome support from a team of engineers and teachers to help you solve problems through chat or screen share if you ever get stuck or have questions.

CodaKid’s private 1-on-1 online lessons are the fastest way to learn how to code. Working 1-on-1 over Zoom with your own private instructor, CodaKid students work their way through CodaKid’s structured curriculum and complete weekly homework assignments, receive weekly progress reports, and more.

Our standard private tutoring plans start at $249 USD per month. This includes live instruction via Zoom with your private instructor, weekly homework assignments, daily progress reports, between session homework support from our teacher team, a free subscription to CodaKid’s platform, and participation in our community events. For all private tutoring pricing info, please visit https://codakid.com/private-tutoring-plans/

If you sign up for our free trial, you will receive 2 free sessions of CodaKid’s private tutoring. Your trial period will start on the date of your first scheduled class, and end after your second. If you don’t cancel your subscription before your 3rd session, you will automatically be billed for the selected membership fee every month until you cancel or change your subscription type.

Your first step is to sign up for CodaKid’s 2 session free trial! Once we receive your signup information, we will send you a questionnaire to get your preferred schedule and other information to help us place you with the perfect instructor. Once you return the questionnaire, we will email and call you to confirm the start date and time of your first free trial session.

Yes! CodaKid features a 2-on-1 sibling special, allowing students to invite a friend or sibling to their private class for no additional charge.

CodaKid students can use the red chat icon on the bottom right corner of the CodaKid learning platform if they ever need assistance. Most issues can usually be solved quickly through this portal, however if a student requires more assistance CodaKid will host screen share sessions with customers to solve more difficult issues.

Yes! We offer a Family Plan for our self-study video courses, created for families with up to 3 students. Each student will receive their own account, each one of them nested under a parent account used to view progress and manage billing.

Here are some of the concepts we teach: 

• Booleans 
• Conditionals,
• Loops
• Variables
• Methods and Functions
• Arrays
• Switch Statements
• And much more!

On top of these essential programming concepts, we also teach them how to think critically, problem solve, and help them become proficient in math!

Our policy is that classes must be rescheduled 24+ hours in advance. Unfortunately sessions that are not rescheduled in time are not eligible for a makeup class or refund. As CodaKid pays our teachers for no-shows, this is a strict policy.

You can reschedule your Private or Accelerated Class up to 24 hours before your session day/time.

Our policy is that classes must be rescheduled 24+ hours in advance. Unfortunately sessions that are not rescheduled in time are not eligible for a makeup class or refund. As CodaKid pays our teachers for no-shows, this is a strict policy.

For a limited time, as a way of giving back during COVID-19, CodaKid students who enrolled in either Private or Private Accelerated can bring a sibling (or friend) to their online classes for FREE.

CodaKid offers a full, money-back guarantee with your first 2 sessions. Once this time period has passed, you may cancel your plan from your next billing date forward.

All of our teachers are located in the United States of America and across every U.S. time zone!

We select our instructors from the top 50 universities in the U.S. and vet them for both their programming skills and their ability to teach students! Not all programmers can teach, and not all teachers can code, but our instructors excel at both. We train our instructors in CodaKid’s Mastery Method, a socratic approach to teaching coding, problem solving, and architectural thinking.

CodaKid only offers one free trial per family. You can start a free trial for one student. If you like it, you can contact us to discuss adding more students.

No. All CodaKid Private courses are billed month to month and can be cancelled from your next billing date forward.

To take CodaKid’s private lessons you will need a desktop or laptop computer running Windows or MacOS. If your child is taking our intro Scratch courses, you will need a mouse as well. Chromebooks and tablets are not compatible with CodaKid courses. You will need a high-speed internet connection of at least 10 Mbps. If you have any further questions, please email us at [email protected]

CodaKid’s private lessons are designed for ages 6 to 18.

CodaKid’s program is month-to-month with no long term commitments. However, if you are looking for a world class, multi-year kids coding program, you have come to the right place! Each CodaKid level is designed to take 4 to 6 months and will generally consist of several engaging projects. We are constantly adding exciting new courses, electives, and coding pathways.

Yes, you may pause your account and resume when you return.

CodaKid provides a complete solution for kids coding camps with its entertaining courses, engaging content, and superior support. We know a thing or two about running camps as we’ve run our own award-winning camps for thousands of students and have earned a reputation as one of the best in the business. CodaKid’s curriculum can teach students who are just getting started with visual block coding up to advanced students who are ready to build their own software using professional languages and tools. Our courses have been honored with many industry awards including Parents’ Choice Gold, CODiE Finalist for Best Coding and Computational Thinking Solution, and Brainchild Awards.

Kids love CodaKid because they’re learning how to code using things that they are already passionate about – such as Roblox Game Development, Minecraft modding, Unreal Game Development, and more. During a week of camp, kids will make several impressive projects that they will be proud to show their friends and family.

CodaKid’s online lessons allow kids to progress independently at their own pace. While this means that you can easily mix kids of different ages and experience levels in one camp without boring the advanced students or confusing the beginners, we recommend grouping them others their age to ensure a great camp culture.

We provide you with tips and resources to market your CodaKid camp, along with class descriptions, an activities schedule, flyers, and copy for your web page. You can also use our marketing checklist to maximize exposure and enrollments. We also provide referral links on our website to help you get the word out to a broad audience.

Roblox coding refers to the process of making interactive, fully functional online games using the Roblox platform—particularly the Roblox Studio editor. With CodaKid’s Roblox Coding Courses, kids will learn how to use Roblox tools and real Lua programming to create professional games, design adventure maps, map out race courses, program infinite runner games, and more.

Rest assured that using a gaming platform and third-party studio/scriptwriter will not compromise the validity or quality of the programming knowledge your child gains from our course. Our coding with Roblox courses will still use valid coding language, and will still cover important programming concepts such as:

• Conditionals
• Loops
• Variables
• Functions
• Arrays
• Switch statements

—and more.

No—Roblox Studio editor is 100% free!

It’s an immersive creation engine from Roblox that allows users to create custom games specifically for play on the Roblox platform. In fact, many users agree that you can create virtually anything on this custom utility software—from role-playing stories to obstacle courses (also called “Obbys”). The studio’s capabilities, complexities, and intuitiveness can be adjusted according to the skill level of the programmer, making it an ideal tool for coders of all skill levels.

CodaKid’s Roblox Coding courses range from an introductory course (making your own obstacle courses) to more advanced lessons (developing a Fortnite-style Battle Royale game). Whatever the intensity, Roblox Studio editor can (and will) meet the demand.

FOR PARENTS: You can download Roblox and Roblox Studio editor for free from their official website.

Roblox is an online game platform that simultaneously hosts games and game creation. Users can either access the gallery of games created by other Roblox users or create their own unique games using Roblox Studio. CodaKid’s Roblox coding for kids courses include a short set of Roblox Studio tutorials that will help your child master the basic controls of Roblox Studio—the first step to creating their very own game!

Simply put, Roblox is a game (or a library of games)—not a programming language.

But it does use one!

Users can make their Roblox game creations come to life using the Lua scripting language—a popular programming language that’s very similar to Java. In fact, a lot of programmers often blend both languages to form a unique scripting language. Lua is particularly popular because it’s one of the easiest scripting languages to learn and work with.

By learning to code with Roblox, CodaKid students also learn essential 21st century skills. Using an online gaming platform to teach coding for kids is an approach known as the “carrot-stick” method—a method that many educators actually approve of.

The carrot-stick method basically leverages the promise of a reward (or the reward itself) to motivate learners. Learners put forth the effort to achieve their goals because they want the gratification that comes with accomplishment—and the prize. It’s a gentler, more encouraging teaching method that’s more effective and sustainable than its counterpart, which basically uses the threat of failure to motivate the student.

So although Roblox Studio editor can be a bit challenging to master at first, students will ideally be inspired to keep going and overcome the hiccups they encounter when they create their first advanced obstacle course or full-fledged tycoon game. And since they’ll be working with Lua—which is a simpler, more laid-back programming language—they won’t be too challenged or too frustrated with the actual coding.

Learning the fundamentals of programming will also introduce them to some true-to-life skills they can take with them in the real world, such as patience, perseverance, problem solving, situational analysis, and a bootstrapped version of the scientific method (formulating a hypothesis and then testing it, basically).

Through Roblox coding for kids, there’s much less technical jargon and much more fun learning.