Casey, 13, speaking
At TED Talks for
Programing and Coding
The technology field has been introduced to new young strong influences in the industry. They attain world-class coding skills and are only in their teens. One child, Harry Moran, only twelve years old speaks out and teaches people about what kids really want to play. He is also the youngest to app developer as of 2011. He is a great advocate for the non-profit institutes that he himself had learned computer coding from. In particular, the CoderDojo, teaches students who want to create apps, programs, and computer functions. These places are popping up all over to reach out to younger (primarily) students wanting to learn how to create codes and basics of computers. These institutes bring a new vision of education to the table for the younger mind. They say the best way to teach them is to encourage the children themselves to be mentors when they learn something.
There was a recent incident where Moran's neighbor's child had a tumor growing behind his eye. The doctors didn't have a program where they were able to view scans via internet so they couldn't diagnose how to treat it. Moan stepped in and created the program they needed, and it helped save the other boy's life.
Source:
CNN.COM
>>Youtube of Thomas Suarez, 12 year old app developer<<
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkd9TWUtFm0
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