If AI were to take over coding, then there would be no point in coding classes for kids. But the main prophet of such a scenario keeps on getting it wrong.

Coding classes for kids can teach several types of coding, but it may be that the much-hyped ‘vibe coding’ isn’t the next big thing in coding after all.

If you need inspiration to send your child to an after-school coding club, the record-breaking efforts of a prodigious video game designer may provide it.

The appeal of coding and robotics could grow across London after a school in Beckenham qualified for a “life-changing” global equivalent of the robot Olympics.