Coding? You gotta start somewhere. These are the classes for beginners you need to know about.

Classes typically run an hour or two and range from teaching coding concepts through Minecraft to learning practical computing skills in Excel and PowerPoint. Programs just for girls exist, too.

These 15 free coding classes for kids are available now to help your kids learn skills that are becoming more and more essential in our current times.

If I wanted to be relevant, I would need to hack what I was learning. Every class I attended that quarter made almost no sense to me—just like my old math classes.