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Teaching coding to refugees as a measure of integration is currently gaining momentum all over the world. Since 2016, numerous coding schools have been established, for example Refugees on Rails, HackYourFuture, CodeYourFuture, refugees{code}, among others. Such initiatives are aiming higher than just filling the demands of the IT job market. They offer their participants tools as well as a community to navigate digital landscapes effectively and develop their technological fluency. Although these coding schools share similar objectives as educational institutions, their work is done by rapid and iterative testing of ideas in a way that traditional education institutions are not able to, possibly because of factors such as regulations, internal processes or mere traditions. In Austria, refugees{code} is the only coding school which offers a program specifically for refugees. Participants are offered the opportunity to dedicate themselves to coding during a time in which application for employment or university is still difficult due to several reasons. Learning to code is not only an efficient use of their time but can give them focus and structure in a period of being in a state of limbo. To evaluate the impact of such approaches, the authors pay attention to refugees{code} and share the lessons learned in teaching programming to refugees based on an empirical technique called action research. Therefore, this paper reports on three programming courses for refugees and seeks to offer practical advice for further research and the implementation of such courses into the educational system.Read less