9-year-old Anvitha Vijay is the youngest developer to make a trip to San Francisco this year to attend Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference.
A grade four student from Mount View Primary School in Melbourne, Anvitha began coding two years ago. The idea to develop an app arose from the need to help her younger sister – then two – to learn about animals.
At the age of seven, Anvitha developed Smartkins Animals, an educational app which made it to Apple’s App store.
This year, this iOs app earned her a scholarship for young coders to attend WWDC.
"I'm learning a lot already, there's so many smart people to talk to," she told Fairfax Media from the conference.
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What amazes us about Anvitha is that she learnt coding by watching YouTube videos.
Fairfax Media reported that she first prototyped her app in Photoshop and then worked on the interface on design app Sketch. Once she was happy with how the app looked, she began coding in Xcode, Apple's iOS development environment.
After some trial and errors, the app was ready to use.
Anvitha later launched it on the App Store and it has already been downloaded a few hundred times, she told Fairfax Media.
In San Francisco right now for the conference, she hopes to meet the Apple CEO Tim Cook during the event.
