A nine-year-old schoolboy has designed his own website from scratch.

Christopher Woolgar spent last week learning how to code and built the website — called “Cheap and Simple Fun Under Bermuda’s Sun” — in only four hours.

“I got interested in computers when I was 5 and got a computer for my birthday,” said Christopher, a student at Paget Primary School.

He explained that he made the site for his mother, Diedre Woolgar, and based the content on her Facebook page, which describes do-it-yourself projects the pair have worked on together. He did all of the final coding by himself.

“He did a beautiful job on it,” said Mrs Woolgar, from Warwick. “He told me he wanted to do the website for me and that he wanted to base it on the Facebook page — I was really pleased.”

The next step will involve making the website fully interactive, which Christopher is eager to learn how to do.

He learned how to make the website at Code Tuna Camp, which teaches children basic static and dynamic website design, programming, system administration and the maths behind it all.

“The main objective of the camp is to find a really good way of teaching kids using games,” Nicholas Hoskins, the camp director, said.

“It is an experiment in gamifying education.”

Mr Hoskins said he started the camp last year, at Watford Sports Club in Sandys, because he was not happy with the options available for his six-year-old half-brother and thought that he could offer him more.

“It’s nice to have a camp that’s not geared towards sports, that’s geared more towards the kids that are into computers and all of that,” Mrs Woolgar said.

“It’s a nice balance between learning and then playing.”

Christopher said: “I thought it would be fun because I like doing computer stuff.

“My favourite thing about the camp was learning how to do all the coding. I learned about changing directories, Linux Terminal Commands, Python code and Scratch programming.”

Christopher, who would one day like to work with computers, said that learning how to make the website and put that into practice was the hardest part.

“Before he left, he signed himself up for end of term and summer, and every camp offered after that until he graduates college,” Mrs Woolgar said. “On the second day, heading back to school, he said, ‘I can’t believe how much fun I had, and how much fun I had learning’.”

Mr Hoskins said the camp was the first of its kind in Bermuda.

“There are other tech camps, I think, but they don’t do what we do.” he said. “We take a very broad approach — I call it self-directed. We try to let the kids follow their interests.”

Mr Hoskins said a number of parents had approached him about adult classes and he was hoping to set up some imminently.

“I’ve spent a lot of time making a system that works well for five to 14-year-olds,” Mr Hoskins said.

“There is definitely going to be something for adults, but it may just be a stripped down version.”

• To view Christopher’s website, visit www.codetuna.com/chris.html

• For more information about Code Tuna Camp, visit www.codetuna.com or e-mail Mr Hoskins at contact@codetuna.com