We attended classes here on and off for three years. With class names like Code and play, and enticements like "ethical hacking" what tween could resist?! The business has a sweet little set up convenient to Cornelius and Davidson and Huntersville, with a small downstairs area that has several tables and chairs with many desktops and laptops. My son loved the computer coding and games and chatting with the other kids and he seemed to be learning although I could never quite put my finger on what he was learning :-) Unfortunately a lot of the in-class instruction was verbose and tangential and the main instructor/owner in recent semesters seemed to have other projects going on in other rooms and leave the kids for extended periods. Also our 7-10 year old kid felt uncomfortable asking questions sometimes as instructor could be a bit critical. Regarding what the kids are learning or what they're supposed to be working on outside of class, parents receive high tech speak, LONG emails and there is a general lack of consistency or clarity. AND the main instructor can be defensive if you have questions or concerns, plus it really ain't cheap! so we finally just did a cost-benefit analysis and pulled out. The good thing is our son has been able to teach his peers basic coding for some time now, he knows a bit of python and roblox and other stuff blah blah and the local science museum computer whiz was very impressed with his knowledge recently, so I know he learned a lot here. The local community college offers classes and we will be proceeding with computer sciences there. read more
