Python & Java Coding Club
Python Programming Club in Wellesley
Real text-based code — and one of our award-winning tracks.
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- CSTA & NGSS aligned
Clubs 2026–27 · iCode of WellesleyStarts Sat 26 Sep
Python Programming — enroll now
- Dates
- September 2026 to June 2027
- Day & time
- Saturdays, 2:00–3:00 pm
- Format
- One hour a week
- Ages
- 8–17
- Location
- 73 Central Street, Wellesley
$199 a month · second club $180 a month
Ten payments, September to June
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Python is the bridge from blocks to the kind of programming people are actually paid to do. It is also, deliberately, the least forgiving club we run: a misplaced colon stops everything, and learning to read an error message calmly is part of the curriculum.
Students build things that do something — tools, simulations, data projects, games — rather than working through exercises. Advanced students move on to Java and AP Computer Science preparation.
Tracks
Students enter at the level that matches their experience and move up as they are ready.
- Introduction — syntax, variables, loops, functions
- Intermediate — data structures, files, libraries, real projects
- Advanced — algorithms, larger builds, Java and AP CS — our award-winning track
What students actually learn
- Syntax and the discipline of writing something a machine will accept
- Data structures — lists, dictionaries, and choosing between them
- Algorithms and thinking about efficiency, not just correctness
- Java and AP Computer Science A preparation at the advanced level
- Reading error messages, which is most of programming
A brief, as students receive it
Write a program that reads a file of names and scores and prints the top five. It must not break if the file is empty, has one line, or contains a score that is not a number.
We give the requirements, not the steps. Working out how is the lesson — and the reason students can explain what they built when they get home.
The question parents actually ask
“Is this the same as the coding they get at school?”
Usually not. School computer science tends to be a syllabus delivered to a class of thirty. This is a brief, a small group, and an instructor who will let a student sit with a bug for ten minutes because that is where the learning is. Students preparing for AP CS or contests generally need both.
Where it leads
Python is the direct route into contest preparation — ACSL and USACO, where results carry real weight for students heading towards computer science.
Questions
My child has never typed code. Is this too advanced?
The Introduction track assumes nothing. If they have come through Scratch, they will recognize every concept and only the punctuation will be new.
Do you cover Java and AP Computer Science?
Yes, at the advanced level. Students working towards AP CSA or contest preparation follow the same club structure with a different brief each week.
When do clubs run?
Clubs run September 2026 to June 2027, one hour a week. This club runs Saturdays, 2:00–3:00 pm, at 73 Central Street, Wellesley. It starts Saturday 26 September and runs to 1 July 2027.
What does it cost?
$199 a month, one hour a week, one topic. You pay for ten months, September to June — July and August are not billed, because clubs do not run then. Taking a second club at the same time? $180 a month for each extra one. Brothers and sisters get 5% off, and that comes off both prices. Materials are included. Same $199 as every other club — we don’t charge more for older kids or harder languages. Stop any time with 30 days’ notice — no term to see out, no penalty, no phone call you have to win. Nothing renews on its own in September; every family chooses again each year.
How is a club different from the Belt Program?
A club is one hour a week, in a larger group, focused on one topic. The Belt Program is two hours a week across a ten-month year, in a group of about six, with a written progress report every month and a capstone project. AI Studio is one hour a week, self-paced, with the work tuned to your child by their instructor. Plenty of students do more than one.
What if we need to miss a week?
Tell us in advance and we will place your child in another group that week where the schedule allows. We run on school holidays too — a day off school is not a day off club. We are closed 24 December to 7 January.
Can we stop?
Yes. Stop any time with 30 days’ notice — no term to see out, no penalty, no phone call you have to win. Email wellesley107@icodeschool.com, or the Managing Director, Soundarya Ganesh, at soundarya.ganesh@icodeschool.com.
Where you’ll be
iCode of Wellesley · 73 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02482
781-291-3131
Five minutes from Wellesley Middle School and a short drive from Schofield, Bates, Hardy, Hunnewell and Upham. Street parking on Central Street, plus the Municipal Way lot behind the building for pickup.
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