CoderDojo

CoderDojo is a not-for-profit organisation founded by James Whelton and entrepreneur Bill Liao.

It first began in James’ school, PBS Cork, in early 2011 when he received extensive publicity after hacking the iPod Nano and younger students expressed an interest in learning how to code.

James set up a computer club where he started teaching basic HTML and CSS. In June 2011, the first CoderDojo was launched in the National Software Centre in Cork where it caught on.