13-Year-old Programming teenager developer Dream: Preparing Studio

Trainee journalist Charle

Zheng, who was an obscure 13-year-old Shanghai Boy before yesterday, has been widely discussed on Weibo and labeled "Youngest http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/11677.html" >ios developer. , "Young Jobs" and other labels. Last night, Zheng and his father, interviewed by reporters, said that some of the argument, in fact, their own design is very simple. Zheng is currently preparing to develop more iOS apps and prepare its own studios.

13-Year-old iOS developer in the Hall

The appearance of a 13-year-old Shanghai Boy surprised the audience at the Baidu (micro-blogging) developer conference in Beijing yesterday morning. Zheng, dressed in a dark gray sports suit, went to the podium, and his opening remarks gave the audience a warm applause: "I am an iOS developer, 13 years old." ”

In his 15-minute speech, Zheng his admiration for jobs. "When I saw him, I had an idea," iwant! He cites the three elements that affect him during the development process, simple (concise), touch (touching) and green, which are expected to be the future trends of app development.

Zheng has now developed applications, there are I lottery, Kindle3 Chinese input method and so on. The former has been placed on the iOS platform for free download by users. The latter has solved the problem of Chinese input for many Kindle users.

Father's attitude of "herding sheep" towards entrepreneurship

In Zheng's microblog space, he has shown the ability to surprise many people, who have been called not only to program, but also to make words, and even to write long, articulate, mature comments.

In the eyes of Father Zhenggang, Zheng is a normal student. "His interest in US never interfered. "He felt the public opinion put his son too high," he now made a simple thing, his peers can do it. "As to whether to support him to go to the road of entrepreneurship, Zhenggang said will take" sheep "attitude.

"Although I draw the principle of simple, development is not complicated, but the hands of 13-year-old students, it is indeed surprising." The three elements of simple, touch and green he mentioned also made sense. "The area of Internet development has always been a young man's world, with the advent of talented teenagers," said one industry insider. However, as to whether it should be on the road to entrepreneurship is different to each person, after all, the technology is not necessarily a good businessman. ”

Zheng on how to balance study and programming

Finish your homework before school, and focus on programming.

Last night, the reporter connected to the Zheng in Beijing, he is currently the Pudong Middle and junior secondary school students.

Talking about programming:

Learn by reading and online

"My parents ' friend sent me a Kindle3 in October in 2010, and this e-reader quickly aroused my interest, but I was also worried about the lack of Chinese input to the Kindle's original system." Throughout the winter vacation in 2011, I modified the configuration of a special character to support the display of software, successfully released the first version of the Kinlde3 Chinese input method, has been hit. This has taken my first step as a developer. ”

Since last August, he has taught himself the development of iOS applications, mainly through reading and online public classes.

On entrepreneurship:

Preparing the Studio

"I am now preparing my own studio, including myself, with 2 members," he said. I am the founder and CEO and my friend is the CFO. The studio will focus on the development of iOS applications. ”

Although the studio has not yet any profit, but Zheng frankly do not rule out the future will try to apply fees and other options to explore the appropriate business model.

About School:

My grades are the top three in the class.

All development is done on the basis of the learning power. "My grades are generally in the top three of the class. All after-school work will be done before school, even in advance self-study courses. When you get home, focus on the development of applications, spend 1-2 hours a day, and spend more time on weekends. ”

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