Code · Create · Future
A welcoming place for curious minds to learn to code. Creative projects, encouraging coaches, and room to grow at their own pace.
Ages 6–12 · Auckland classes · Online learning coming soon
New name, same curious spirit. Formerly Skill Samurai.
CODE · CREATE · FUTURE
Two ways to grow
Join our weekly Auckland classes today. Online learning at home is coming soon.
How our classes work
Two children sitting side by side are usually building different things. Each one has their own track, and an instructor works with them individually rather than lecturing the room.
Busier venues run a bigger room with a second coach rather than stretching one further, so the ratio holds either way.
Weekday afternoons from 3:00pm to 5:00pm, plus weekend mornings at our community venues.
Nothing is paced by a calendar. A student’s position is simply which projects they have finished.
Because everyone is on their own track, joining mid-term is completely normal.
What your child learns
We wrote the curriculum ourselves and run it on our own platform, so a student never leaves our apps to learn. They start where they are and climb.
Picture blocks
Fifteen short levels of picture-only blocks. Your child drags a footprint, an arrow and a gem to walk a ninja to the star, and works out along the way that repeating three blocks beats dragging fifteen.
15 levels · 4 worlds
Scratch
One hundred and eleven projects across five ranks. Younger students watch a video and build along; older ones read the steps and build it themselves. Every project is a finished game, animation or story.
111 projects · 5 ranks
Blockly and Python
The bridge, and the piece we are proudest of. Blocks fade into real Python gradually across ten worlds rather than switching over one day. By world five a student is reading and writing Python and barely noticed the handover.
100 levels · 10 worlds
Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Where a student stops following along and starts building. Twenty-four guided projects across a Python path and a web path, each broken into small steps and checked against real tests as they type.
24 projects · 2 paths
Python in VS Code
Real Python typed into a real code editor, the same tool professional developers use all day. Sixteen projects from a piggy bank that will not go wrong to a working game of Hangman.
16 projects · 3 modules
Alongside the ladder
Ages 9–12 · mCreator
New ores, tools, armour, potions and loot your child designs and then plays with in their own world. Twenty-four lessons in the order a modder actually works: ore, then tools, then armour, then potions, then procedures, then loot.
Ages 10–12 · Roblox Studio and Luau
Roblox is not just a game, it is a platform millions of young people build on. Students design 3D worlds and script the rules that make them work, in Luau, the same language Roblox studios use.
Classes & locations
Find days, times and age guidance for all 12 Auckland venues. Open-to-all classes welcome children from any school; restricted venues are clearly marked.
One-hour classes for ages 6–12, during New Zealand school terms. Come once or twice a week. Your first class is free; ask us about ongoing fees when you enquire.
Glenfield · North Shore
Our busiest North Shore venue, and the easiest one to start at. Five sessions a week across Friday afternoon and Saturday morning means you can almost always find a time that fits around sport and family.
Grey Lynn · Central Auckland
Our Sunday session in central Auckland. Open enrolment, so any child aged 6 and up can join regardless of which school they attend.
Grey Lynn · Central Auckland
Monday afternoons on site at Grey Lynn Primary. Children stay at school at the bell and walk straight to class, and enrolment is open to students from nearby schools too.
Epsom · Central Auckland
Monday afternoons at Auckland Normal Intermediate, pitched at intermediate-aged students who are ready to move past block coding into Python, Lua or Java.
Hobsonville · West Auckland
Tuesday afternoons on site at Hobsonville School, covering everything from a first Scratch game through to Python.
Herne Bay · Central Auckland
Wednesday afternoons at Bayfield School in Herne Bay, open to Bayfield students and to children from nearby central schools.
Te Atatū Peninsula · West Auckland
Thursday afternoons on the Peninsula, and one of two West Auckland school venues running the same week.
New Lynn · West Auckland
Thursday afternoons at Arahoe School in New Lynn. Open to Arahoe students and to children from other West Auckland schools.
Kohimarama · East Auckland
Friday afternoons at St Thomas in Kohimarama, one of two eastern bays venues.
Epsom · Central Auckland
Tuesday afternoons at Epsom Normal School. This class is open to Epsom Normal students only.
Westmere · Central Auckland
Wednesday afternoons at Westmere School, open to Westmere students only.
St Heliers · East Auckland
Friday afternoons at St Heliers School, open to St Heliers students only.
The free trial
A trial is a real class, not a demonstration. Your child sits down, picks up where a beginner starts, and builds something working before the hour is out.
No lecture and no setup homework. Whether it is programming a game or solving a puzzle, they are building within a few minutes of sitting down.
We cap trial seats deliberately. A new child gets most of an instructor’s attention, which is the only way a first hour is any good.
Work saves to their own account, so they can open it at home and show you. If it was not for them, tell us and that is the end of it.
No card needed
Free
for the first class, with nothing to pay and no obligation to carry on.
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Get in touch
Tell us your child’s age and roughly where you are, and we will come back with the two or three sessions that actually work for you. It takes about a minute.