Coding Classes & Camps for East Bay Kids

Interested in expanding your child’s access to coding? Are they crazy for video games and you want them to create something? Programming is a hands-on skill. Many coding classes and summer camps in Oakland, Berkeley, and nearby will support this goal.

Thanks to theCoderSchool Berkeley for sponsoring today’s post.

What’s offered at theCoderSchool in Berkeley?

theCoderSchool Berkeley is a year-round after-school coding school that offers personalized, project-based coding instruction for kids ages 7-18, both in-person and online. With a low student-to-coach ratio, students learn in an immersive environment and develop their coding skills at a faster rate. theCoderSchool Berkeley also holds the East Bay’s most popular, fun, and educational week-long summer and holiday break coding camps that sell out every year.

Families can sign up their children for a FREE 30-minute trial lesson to learn more.

East Bay Coding Classes for Kids

theCoderSchool Berkeley

With code classes for beginners and code coaching for kids ready to tackle projects, theCoderSchool Berkeley welcomes kids ages 7-18 to take a trial class to get started. They also host summer camps and birthday parties.
Location: 1385 Shattuck Avenue, Suite C, Berkeley
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Phone: 510.679.2375

theMADE (Oakland)

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE) offers free Saturday classes in their fully playable video game space. What started as regular Scratch lessons has evolved into different video-game-adjacent lessons about animation, storytelling, and graphics. Some are more like coding than others. Appropriate for 3rd to 8th graders.
Location: 921 Washington Street, Oakland
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phone: 510.350.8857

Codeatorium (San Leandro)

After school and weekend classes progress kids from Scratch to Python to Javascript. New students are matched with an ongoing weekly class based on age, experience, and interests.
Location: 163 Pelton Center Way, San Leandro
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phone: 510.519.6960

If neither of these is convenient for your location, wonderful online programs like theCoderSchool Online (ages 7 to 18), CodeWizardsHQ (ages 8 to 18), iDTech (ages 7 to 19), or YoungWonks (ages 8 to 18) are available. CodeFu offers programming through local schools.

Summer Coding Camps for Kids

Summertime day camps and overnight camps offer kids — even with little or no prior coding experience — to learn and master computer programming, robotics, artificial intelligence, and video game design! Search our day camp guide for keywords that excite your kid from Minecraft to VR.

These few camps are specifically focused on coding.

theCoderSchool (North Berkeley)

Promising a solid week of coding fun, kids, age 7+, code throughout the week and then demo their creations. Programming languages/topics include Scratch, Python, Roblox, HTML/CSS, Raspberry Pi, AI, and Mobile Apps. Camps include daily hours of fun and outdoor activities at Live Oak Park.
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iD Tech (UC Berkeley)

One and two-week sessions at university locations include coding, game dev, and robotics.
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The STEM Collective (Albany)

Hands-on, applied knowledge camp that offers virtual reality programming, Arduino, and other STEM topics.
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TechKnowHow (Oakland, Fremont, and more)

One-week programs with a LEGO, Minecraft, Robotics, Roblox, or Coding focus for ages 5-10.
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Thanks again to theCoderSchool for supporting {510} Families by sponsoring this guide.