// Guides
Guides for parents
Written by the two engineers who teach the sessions. Each one answers a question a parent has asked us, in words you could repeat at dinner.
AI for children and teenagers
- What a 12 year old can actually build with AI (and what we don't let them do)
What a 10 to 14 year old can build with AI under supervision, what stays out of reach at each age, and the lines we do not cross on accounts and personal data.
- ChatGPT is not a coding tutor: how we teach AI tools to teenagers
Why a chatbot alone does not teach a teenager to code, where its confident answers go wrong, and how our sessions use an AI assistant the child checks.
Linux, servers and cloud
- Why your teenager should learn the terminal before they learn another app
What the terminal is, why every server runs without a screen, and what changes for a 12 to 16 year old once they can drive a Linux machine with typed commands.
- What is AWS, explained for parents
Amazon Web Services in plain language: what the cloud is, who uses it, and what a 14 year old can safely build in a sandbox we pay for, with a spending limit.
Software engineering
- Coding club, coding tuition or a tutor: what the words mean and what your child gets
An after-school coding club, live online group tuition or a one-to-one tutor for a 10 to 16 year old: UK prices per hour and what each one is good for.
- What a GitHub portfolio does for a 16 year old
What GitHub is, why engineers look at it, what a 16 year old's portfolio can honestly show after three years of projects, and what it cannot promise.
Deciding as a parent
- Is coding good for my child? An honest answer from two engineers
When coding helps a 10 to 16 year old and when it does not, what age to start, screen time answered plainly, and the questions to ask any provider first.
- What GCSE Computer Science covers, and what it leaves out
The GCSE Computer Science specification in plain terms: what your child is taught from 14 to 16, what it leaves out, and how the gap to engineering is filled.