A nine-year-old Indian-origin girl has became the youngest app developer at Apple's annual developer conference. Now, she dreams of meeting the tech giant's CEO Tim Cook.  

Anvitha Vijay from Australia is the youngest developer to attend the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2016 in San Francisco.
According to a report in Fortune, she has already built several apps for iPhone and iPad.

"It's my dream to go to WWDC and meet Tim Cook," said Vijay. She had applied for a Apple's scholarship program, and Apple selected her to visit San Francisco's Moscone Center for WWDC.

Vijay learned coding through watching free coding tutorials on YouTube and the web for a year. "Coding was so challenging. But I'm so glad I stuck with it," she said.

Her apps were inspired by her toddler sister, who was learning how to talk and identify animals. Vijay developed the Smartkins Animals app, which uses sounds, and flashcards to help teach children 100 different animals' names and sounds.

"Turning an idea for an app involves a lot of hard work," Vijay said. "There are so many components to building an app, including prototyping, design and wirreframing, user interface design and then coding and testing."

A report revealed that, winners of Apple's scholarships to attend WWDC were mostly under the age of 18. "Out of 350 recipients, 120 of the lucky winners are students. Submissions increased by 215% and more than doubled from organizations focused on science, technology, engineering, and math," the report said.

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