Appears an 8-year-old prodigy who specializes in livestreaming teaching programming, happy birthday by Apple CEO himself

Recently, Chinese netizens were stirred by the videos of an 8-year-old boy who is still in primary school, the special thing is that this boy’s videos are all around the field of education. program. For example, in August of this year, he uploaded his first video on Bilibili (a Chinese video sharing platform) called “Primary school students teach you to program” textbook #01 Command | Swift Playgrounds, has now attracted more than 200,000 views.​

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Up to now, this boy has posted a total of 10 programming teaching videos with nearly 1.2 million views and 60,000 subscribers. The father of this 8-year-old Vita boy also revealed, from a very young age, the boy had an amazing ability for arithmetic and logical thinking. However, to be what it is today, in addition to natural talent, it is also inseparable from the process of growing up. Starting at the age of 3, Vita started playing a number of games such as Monument Valley, Shadowmatic, Rop… By the age of 4, the boy began to be exposed to more complex games, such as puzzle games. : HOOK, Sudoku, Number Maze, Mekorama.​

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After the age of 4, Vita was really exposed to programming-related knowledge, and also started a transition period from games. At the age of 5 and a half, this boy started coding, his father chose the Swift Playgrounds app due to Apple give you practice instead of Python. During the whole process, Vita not only wrote code, but also developed a number of practical applications under his father’s guidance: For example, when he was about to graduate from kindergarten, he wrote an app that counted down the day he left school. .

It can be seen that the development process of Vita cannot be separated from the fostering and education of the family. It is known that the boy’s father, born in Tianjin, belongs to class 8X, is currently an author and translator. Starting at the age of 7, 8 years old, he was also exposed to basic programming languages. When he was in middle school, he won the regional champion of the National Olympic competition in informatics.​

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Vita’s capabilities also caught Apple’s attention, the leading technology company sent an invitation to Vita to visit its Shanghai facility, and Vita’s 8th video was also filmed there. On this last December 16, Apple CEO Tim Cook also congratulated Vita’s 8th birthday through his personal Weibo.​