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Linux tuition for 12 to 16 year olds
Linux tuition here means your child, from 12, has a Linux server that we host, logs into it, learns to drive it with text, and puts their own programs on it.
Live online sessions run by engineers who work at AWS.
What it is, in plain words
Linux is the operating system that runs almost every server on the internet. Servers have no screen and no mouse, because a machine that only runs code does not need them, so you talk to them through a terminal: a window where you type commands and read what comes back.
Learning the terminal is the point at which a teenager stops using a computer and starts driving one. They can see where files live, change who may read them, install software, and make the machine do a job while they are not watching.
Why a 10 to 16 year old should learn it now
Every website, app and AI tool your child uses runs on a Linux machine somewhere. A teenager who has typed commands into one stops seeing the internet as magic and starts seeing it as machines they could run.
From 12, your child runs their own Linux server that we host, writes Python that does real jobs, and builds an AI assistant that remembers the conversation. The server is theirs to use and ours to run, so nothing they break stays broken and nothing costs you money.
What your child builds at each level
At 12 to 14, in the module we call Your own Linux server, your child opens a terminal on a Linux machine we host, learns to move around it, manage files and permissions, install software, and write a first script. The final piece of work is the Python tool they built in the previous module running on that server, with a script that runs it and saves the output. Along the way they solve capture-the-flag puzzles that teach the same skills as a game.
In the next module, Put it online properly, the same server runs a small web server they wrote, with their chatbot behind it so anyone with the link can use it.
At 14 to 16 they investigate how the internet really works from the terminal, with the tools working engineers use to look up a domain, fetch a page and inspect a certificate, and they run their app as a container.
Who teaches it
Two of us. Ismail is an applied AI and machine learning engineer at AWS. Sami is a platform engineer at AWS. We wrote the curriculum and we teach every session. If we bring in other tutors as the programme grows, they will be engineers we have worked with, and we'll tell you before your child's group changes.
Accounts, supervision and safety
Under 13, nothing is in your child's name: they work in the browser on platforms we manage, and we publish their work to their club address. From 13, they create a GitHub account in a session with you present; it is the portfolio they keep. Everything else (the Linux server, the AI tools, the AWS sandbox, the publishing) is ours: we own the accounts and pay the bills. Your child never sees a password or a key for any of it.
Every tutor holds an enhanced DBS check. Sessions are recorded and recordings are deleted after 90 days. Tutors never message a child directly. We have a designated safeguarding lead.
Levels and prices
From 12, your child runs their own Linux server that we host, writes Python that does real jobs, and builds an AI assistant that remembers the conversation.
From 14, your child deploys to Amazon Web Services in a sandbox we own and pay for, ships code the way engineering teams do, and builds an AI tool that answers questions from their own notes.
- Level 01 · Ages 10–12
Foundations
No experience needed
£40a session£320 a month · 8 sessions
Their first website, game and chatbot, all live on the internet
- Level 02 · Ages 12–14
Intermediate
Has done some coding
£45a session£360 a month · 8 sessions
Real Python, a proper code editor, and a Linux server we host for them
- Level 03 · Ages 14–16
Advanced
Has built things before
£55a session£440 a month · 8 sessions
Amazon Web Services, shipping code the way teams do, and an AI product built end to end
- Live 90-minute sessions in a group of 6 to 8
- A deployed project at the end of every module
- A Parent Showcase where they demo it to you
- An email every Saturday with what they built
- A certificate at the end of each level
Sessions are 90 minutes in a group of 6 to 8. £40 to £55 a session is £26.67 to £36.67 an hour. Billed monthly, cancel anytime, first session free.