Meet 9 yr old Anvitha Vijay, youngest developer at Apple WWDC

Do you remember, on Satya Nadella's visit to India he had met an 8 yr old game developer who aspired to be the next Microsoft CEO. It is not surprising to see such little wonders coding and creating their own apps.

Meet Anvitha Vijay who coded her first app at age 7, self-teaching herself by watching how-to-code videos on YouTube and elsewhere on the web. At 9, she is the youngest ever WWDC attendee who got a special shoutout by CEO Tim Cook.

In the first few minutes of the show, he pointed her out in the audience saying, "I met her and she is going to make one heck of a developer."

The Australian ‘small wonder’ has already created a handful of apps. She even has one available on the App store, called Smartkins, an app for kids that has over 100 different animal names and sounds, and allows kids to even record their own thoughts and sounds.

Till few years back Apple didn't allow anyone under 18 to attend its annual worldwide developer conference, but today it has a scholarship program that invites young programmers to apply for a scholarship to the show.

This year, 350 scholarship winners are attending the WWDC show including about 120 kids under 18, Apple says.

In a similar event of genius-spotting in 2012, Shafay Thobani, from Pakistan, at the age of eight, became the world’s youngest Microsoft specialist. At that young age, when many confuse between the alphabet ‘b’ and ‘d’, Thobani had studied and passed the IT and software tests with a score of 91 percent.

He mastered complicated internet protocol and domain name systems to become a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in Microsoft Windows 7 Configuration and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.