theCoderSchool

★★★★★Georgia D

My son was at the Coder School for more than a year. He was older than all the other kids there but he loved the environment and all instructors that he had. He was also lucky to have Zach,(PA manager) when he first started.

★★★★★Gary Urteaga

My 8-year-old son, Gary, loved his Java coding class at The Coder School in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley. He was fortunate to be coached by Zachary, the Regional and General Manager. Zach is an exceptional instructor with a background in engineering and computer science, and a clear talent for coaching and coding. My son is highly motivated to continue learning programming and coding at The Coder School.

★★★★★Jenine Palo Alto

My 10 year old daughter has been taking classes since last summer and really enjoys it. She's so proud of the games she's created. I never had to drag her to go. We've had a few different tutors and they have all been great. I like the follow up after the classes so that I can see what she's learned.

★Y G

We sent two kids there, but stopped going there in few months. They don't have a solid curriculum shared between the teachers to teach the students to reach the certain level, so each teacher has their own project that he/she let a student to work on. It's fine if you get a good teacher and keep learning from him/her, but we had to change the teacher due to the schedule conflicts of my son. It looks like there was no communication between the previous and new teachers, so the new teacher had to spend the entire class time to find out what my son was working on and tried to figure out how he can fix the project. The new teacher told me that it is because the project my son was working on was the previous teacher's own project. He doesn't know how he can take over from there. We ended up stating a new project.... Also, we enrolled our kids for semi-private classes, but they got a different teacher because the manager Zach told us they are at the different level. They match students with same level. My daughter was assigned to her teacher to learn Python, and my son was assigned to a different teacher to learn Scratch. Although, they were enrolled into a semi private class, they were only student since there was no matching student at the beginning. That's fine. Few weeks later, my daughter met another student who started to learn together. Surprisingly, the new student was just started to learn with Scratch, which was similar to my son's level.... I don't think they have a system to match the students actually. As the other reviewers mentioned, I don't think the class room is clean and healthy either. During the summer, they run AC and open the door, so I didn't feel much, but as it gets cold recently, they close the door. Whenever I stepped in the class, I smell something weird and feel air is not clean, circulating not enough or too many teachers and students in the small class area. I didn't ask my daughter, but she started to wear a mask when she goes in there and take off when she left the class by herself. We have just ended the contract of both kids and started to look for another place. Hope this helps you to judge.

★★★★★Jackson Nghiem

My son who is 9 years old have been doing online classes with his cousins from Palo Alto, CA. I currently live in Sao Paulo, Brazil and my son does the online classes 4 times a month with his cousins. The teachers are nice and seems to know there way in teaching the kids in programming. My son has been doing these classes for around 8 months and he seems to enjoy it. I can see that he got some knowledge on programming because I use to be a computer science major myself in college. The school is accommodating on your schedule and make up classes are easy to make if you miss one. The staff that works there seems very easy going. I am happy with my son in these classes. I think it will give him some knowledge of programming in the future.