As parents, we need to encourage our children to engage in more constructive plays and activities.
Here is an interview excerpt from IBM's 12-Year-Old Watson Programmer, Tanmay Bakshi who writes computer programs in his spare time.
Bakshi already has a couple of apps in the Apple app store. He is also the world's youngest IBM Watson programmer. IBM Watson is an intelligence engine which handles Artificial Intelligence (AI) as well as the Internet of Things (IoT). Bakshi has spoken at many conferences about programming. Additionally, he also has a YouTube channel where he shares videos on computing. He can code in swift, VB, Java, C# among many other languages.
When did you start programming?
I was 5 years old when I got curious. My dad used to do a lot of programming. So that intrigued me. Then I started creating my first programs, such as displaying "Hello World" in the Windows bash command line. Later, I picked up more languages in terms of programming.
What was the first app that you built and released?
I had built an app called tTables which helps you in learning multiplication tables. I released it in the app store when I was 9 years old. Funnily, it was accepted in the app store on Valentine's day of 2013.
Your thoughts about future technologies such as AI and VR (Virtual Reality)?
Artificial Intelligence is great. I watched a documentary a few months ago on YouTube and that is what attracted me to code on the IBM Watson platform. I also don't understand why people are afraid of AI. It is created by humans to help humans, we pull the plug when we want to. AI is already helping in medical science, social media, research, education and many more sectors.
excerpt from: Huffington Post
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