About us
Your community is already where they grow up.
A gated community is not a car park with flats around it. It is where the children already are — the clubhouse, the court, the group that forms at six in the evening and dissolves by eight.
So we don't ask you to drive across Hyderabad on a Tuesday. We bring the academy to the place your child already calls home.
But this is not home tuition
We want to be very clear about that, because it is the easiest thing to mistake us for. A tutor comes to your flat, sits your child at the dining table, and leaves. One child, one adult, one hour, and nothing that lasts past the door.
We are the opposite of that. We take over a room in your clubhouse and turn it into somewhere — a place with other children in it, with ranks on the wall, with a game on every screen and somebody shouting because theirs finally works. Your child doesn't get a visitor. They get somewhere to go.
That is also why the group matters more than the flat. Children build faster when the child beside them has just solved the thing they are stuck on, and the walk home with a friend who also made a game is worth more than another hour of one-to-one.
What we're actually trying to build
Three things. In this order.
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An hour they are never bored in
Bored is the real enemy — not difficulty. A bored child stops trying and decides, quietly and permanently, that this isn't for them. So nothing here is a lecture and nothing is a worksheet. Every session has a thing being built, and it either runs or it doesn't, and finding out which is the whole hour.
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Children who grow up around technology, not just on it
Every child in this country is already handed a screen. Very few are ever shown the other side of it — that the thing in their hands was made by people, out of parts, and that they could make one too. That shift, from using to making, is the single most useful thing we can hand a nine-year-old. Everything else is detail.
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Something that grows with them, for years
Not a six-week course and a certificate. Ten ranks, from their first falling-star game at seven to writing real JavaScript and designing a game from an empty screen at fourteen. The same room, the same people, the child getting steadily less like a beginner. That is what a community is for.
How we work
- We bring everything Laptops, mice, micro:bit kits. Your clubhouse provides a room and plug points. Nothing for the association to buy and nothing for you to set up.
- We leave the room as we found it Nothing is installed, nothing is drilled into a wall, nothing is stored on site. We arrive, we teach, we pack up.
- Nobody is taught at Every cadet runs their own missions at their own pace on their own account. Two children the same age can be four missions apart and both be exactly where they should be.
- We're careful with your child's details A first name and a four-digit PIN. No date of birth, no address, no phone number, no photograph on their account — the system refuses those fields. The full detail.
Who's behind it
Code Commanders is run by Prithvijeet Kulkarni — a Computer Science graduate from Hyderabad who spent 2025–26 in the UK teaching children to code, day in and day out, at one of the largest children's coding franchises in the world.
That year is the reason this exists. Teaching the same hour hundreds of times teaches you things no syllabus does: exactly where a seven-year-old gives up, which sentence an eleven-year-old stops reading, and how much of a child's enthusiasm is spent fighting a keyboard before any coding starts. The curriculum here was written around those lessons, for the place I grew up in.
Every coach is background checked before they teach.
Bring it to your community
We open in February 2027, and we open in the societies with the most families waiting. Tell us yours.
On the association committee? We're happy to come and show you the whole thing before anybody signs up to anything.