Nine-Year-Old Anvitha Vijay Is the Youngest Developer at WWDC 2016

Jun 15, 2016, 03:42
Nine-Year-Old Anvitha Vijay Is the Youngest Developer at WWDC 2016

Apple kicked off its annual conference in San Francisco on Monday, and during the keynote speech, Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi teased the crowd with "one more thing" - the exact phrase former CEO Steve Jobs used to use before revealing a huge surprise.

Anvitha is attending WWDC as part of Apple's scholarship program, which gives hundreds of free tickets to developers from around the world who are creating apps for Apple devices. In addition, the number of women who applied for the scholarship have tripled this year with nearly 22 percent. After spending a year accumulating knowledge about coding on various platforms, she managed to learn the basics of programming. 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.

Ahead of the WWDC, usually a software-dominated event, Apple preannounced changes to its App Store, including a new revenue-share model with developers. The iOS app helped her to win one of the 350 Apple scholarships for young coders to attend WWDC. Vijay's apps were inspired by her toddler sister, who was learning how to talk and identify animals. For the second app she went to teach colors for the kids. Her first app, GoalsHi, was built during the summer holidays and won a $10,000 student prize at the OzApp awards in Australia in 2015.

She told Fortune it was a hard process to learn how to develop an app, because, well - she's not even ten yet. Her father is a capital projects manager for APA Group. The catch here is that she is all but nine years old. Apple invited her, impressed by Anvitha Vijay's tech skills - she has developed some apps for Apple products, iPhone and iPad.

According to the same article, Vijay, who lives with her parents in Melbourne, Australia, at the age of seven realised that her piggy bank did not have enough money to hire a developer to make her an app, so she chose to teach herself how to code.

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