More than 80-year-old self-taught programming development hand Tour attended the Apple Developer Conference

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Yes, you are right, a more than 80-year-old Japanese grandmother-Shozo Masako Wakamiya from more than 60 years old to the computer, to participate in the Apple Developers Conference, and then to develop a suitable for the elderly game. Imagine that these things are very exciting for a Gen Y, not to mention the oldest program.

Born in 1936, Shozo witnessed the Japanese surrender and the difficult postwar reconstruction after the most turbulent times of World War Ii. After graduating from high school, Shozo into a bank--most Japanese women would leave work after marriage, but if Kazoko said: "I've never been a housewife." "She worked at the bank for 43 years, until she was 60 years old. According to the Japanese media, Shozo is for the female genius, 1954 after graduating from high school into the Mitsubishi Bank (now the Bank of Mitsubishi UFJ) work, until the retirement did not touch the computer.

After retiring, Shozo felt very lonely, she liked to communicate with people, like the new things, but her mother was 90 years old, need to take care of people at home. One day in 1996, Shozo saw an advertisement in a magazine: "Have a computer of your own, connect to the Internet, chat with friends on the Internet." "(Is Shozo and her mother)

In order to learn to use the computer, she registered and joined a computer club, similar to BBS, is a group of beginners to learn from each other to Exchange computer technology places. Club website Welcome interface, only a word: life from the age of 60 to really start.

She self-taught Excel, but also ingenuity to the Japanese traditional weaving art with Excel forms, the creation of Excel art.
In Excel, in each square unit, add different colors of the bar box, the formation of different patterns of patterns, very design sense. She also designed a lot of special textures for fans, notebook covers and tote bags.

In 2015, tedxtokyo,79-year-old Shozo held up his arms and shouted at the people under the table, "I have wings!" (I got my wing). "In front of you, is definitely not a twilight old man, life energy is so abundant." (The video below is Shozo Ted speech)

The 2017 Apple Developers Conference WWDC17 opened on June 5, Apple CEO Donnald Cook introduced the meeting's oldest developer Shozo, Shozo with his work to the Apple Developers Conference. is a game app called Hinadan. This is the first game she has designed for the elderly, the "daughter's Day Altar" (Hinadan), the game is now popular in the Japanese market, has been downloaded 4. 20,000 times.

See here, is there any feeling that please accept my knees? A retired grandmother, according to our conventional thinking that she should be enjoying the happiness of the people, in coax grandson's grandmother, but such a hobby computer into the internet-loving grandmother, she did a lot of people dream of things. Of course, we do not have to study the grandmother's code style, there is no bug in the code, this spirit is really worth every programmer to learn, this spirit, it is worth us to think about ourselves, the way of our own struggle, in the end exhausted the full? Can you do it better?

See here, we still have any reason not to struggle, not to work hard! Come on!

More than 80-year-old self-taught programming development hand Tour attended the Apple Developer Conference