New Delhi: Apple's annual developer's conference, WWDC 2016, will kick start in the next few hours. Touted as one of the biggest events on the tech-calendar each year, it is on this platform that the tech giant announces developments in all its software platforms.
While the world waits with bated breath speculating the announcements lined up for tonight, there is something that appears to be taking away the attention from the Cupertino giant.
And the one whisking away the limelight is none else but Indian-origin developer Anvitha Vijay. Like every other developer she is also going to attend the WWDC and meet Tim Cook. The catch here is that she is all but nine years old.
Anvitha, as it turns out, has already developed two app for the iOS platform and has become the youngest attendee at the event, Fortune reported.
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The nine-year-old had applied for Apple’s scholarship and will be attending the event as a part of this scholarship that will offer her free tickets. This is a scholarship by Apple which is given to the under-18 age group which saw the maximum number of winners under the age of 18.
Remarkably, this young achiever has learnt to code by just watching free coding tutorials on YouTube and the web.
Anvitha told the news site, “Coding was so challenging. But I’m so glad I stuck with it.”
Smartkins Animals app, her first, uses sounds and flash cards to help children learn animal names and sounds. After this she has developed another app for children to help them learn colours in a similar way and is already working on her next app.
“Out of 350 recipients, 120 of the lucky winners are students under the age of 18. Submissions increased by 215 percent more than doubled from organisations focused on science, technology, engineering, and math,” adds the report. In addition, the number of women who applied for the scholarship have tripled this year with almost 22 percent.
