This 9-year-old Indian origin girl was the youngest developer at Apple’s WWDC 2016 !
Among the hordes of developers who attended Apple's annual World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC ) this year in San Francisco , nine-year old Indian-origin Anvitha Vijay held the distinction of being the youngest. The Melbourne resident, who taught herself to code at the age of seven, already has two apps to her credit and intends to develop more. Vijay spent a year watching free coding tutorials on YouTube and the web, and learned how to program. "Coding was so challenging. But I'm so glad I stuck with it," she said. She attended WWDC after being selected for Apple's scholarship program, which gives hundreds of free tickets to developers from around the world who are creating apps for Apple devices. Vijay had dreamt of meeting Apple's CEO Tim Cook and not only was she able to make that a reality at the WWDC but also managed to get a shoutout from Cook himself. In the first few minutes of the show, an impressed Tim Cook pointed t