Original title: 8-year-old Shanghai primary school student B station teaching programming startled Apple cook to send birthday greetings source: qubits
What kind of relationship can cook personally send birthday wishes? On December 16, the CEO of Apple sent birthday wishes to a Chinese friend on his microblog. This Chinese friend, only 8 years old, is a primary school student in Shanghai. In fact, he is not close to Kuk, nor is he the child of Apple's important shareholders or executives. He is just one of the children who use Apple products to learn programming.
But what's special is that this pupil is good at learning and good at teaching. He was already popular at station B & hellip& hellip; Microblogging also has the topic '8-year-old pupils teach you programming'.
Really 'startle Apple' and 'startle cook'.
The youngest programming teacher in station B, with a playback volume of more than one million
The story of this pupil starts from station B.
In August this year, he uploaded the first programming video on station B, entitled [primary school students teach you to learn programming] #01 command | swift playgrounds clearance tutorial, which has received 20W + playback.
Although there are many young users on station B, up masters who are only 8 years old are also very rare. It can be said that they are the youngest programming teachers in station B and even the whole network.
Most of his fans are children and adults older than him. Therefore, when the video is played, the barrage is usually 'uncle comes to watch' and 'I'm not even as good as children' & hellip& hellip;
In the teaching video, he will patiently explain the knowledge points, not simply according to the book. He also asks questions from time to time, such as' what is else if? '
In the teaching process, he sometimes makes mistakes deliberately to show how to avoid common mistakes.
"When I teach students, I'm learning new things myself," he said in an interview with foreign media Agence France Presse earlier Programming is not that easy, but it is not very difficult, at least not as difficult as you think. "
At present, he has uploaded 10 programming tutorials, played 1.17 million + and won more than 60000 fans.
With the popularity of the video, he also attracted a lot of attention, also attracted the attention of apple, and enthusiastically sent him an invitation. His eighth class was recorded in Apple's design and development accelerator in Shanghai.
At the same time, he also caused a lot of questions. Is this hype marketing? Is it pulling out seedlings to encourage? But we are more curious. What kind of family can cultivate such children?
In fact, he has remained 'mysterious' since he became popular.
The way of programming: at the age of 5 and a half, he began to write code and is impacting noi
The child who caused Apple CEO cook to send birthday wishes and made the post-90s and post-00s feel inferior on station B. who has his name and is specially protected? The Jianghu code Vita Jun, has just finished his 8th birthday and is in the second grade of primary school.
On the one hand, he has his own talent. His father 'Zhou huajuan' revealed that Vita had shown advanced mathematical and logical thinking when he was very young. But it is also inseparable from the guidance in the process of growing up.
He began to play some small games when he was about three and a half years old, such as Monument Valley, shadowmatic, ROP and so on. At the age of 4, he began to contact with more complex puzzle solving games such as hook, Sudoku, digital maze and mekorama mechanical maze.
In his father's opinion, these games require a lot of simulation and deduction in children's mind, which is very key to learning programming, that is, they cultivate his thinking habits and further excavate his logical thinking.
At the age of four and a half, Vita began to really contact with the knowledge related to programming, also starting from the game as a transition. Vita started writing code when she was about five and a half years old.
Dad 'Zhou huajuan' chose the swift playgrounds application developed by apple for him, not python.
In his opinion, it is also closer to C language (a compulsory language for participating in the Olympiad of Informatics and learning computer related majors).
There are already three modules of learning programming in swift playgrounds. Vita Jun has mastered the first module and recorded his learning project as a video and sent it to station B. He also completed most of the second module.
In the whole process, he not only wrote the handwritten code, but also developed some practical applications under the guidance of his father. For example, when I was about to graduate from kindergarten, I wrote a countdown app for leaving the kindergarten.
These learning processes have also laid a solid foundation for him. " Zhou Hua volume said, "playing Scratch will also make complaints about Scratch'which I don't use well, such as the function does not return value, for example, can not directly refer to objects, and so on. I say your request is quite numerous, …" hellip;'
Now Vita Jun has also launched an impact on noi (National Informatics Olympiad). In November this year, he participated in the youth algorithm competition (primary school group) sponsored by Shanghai Computer Society and became the only second grader shortlisted for the second round.
How to develop a young geek?
From Vita's programming path, his growth is inseparable from family education, and Zhou huajuan did not avoid his influence on children.
In response to the question of "letting children learn programming too early", he usually responds with his own example.
He is from Tianjin. He is a post-80s generation. He graduated from Shanghai Foreign Studies University. Now he is a full-time father. He is also a popular science writer and translator.
When he was 7 or 8 years old, he began to learn basic language programming with 'Chinese learning machine'. When I was in junior high school, I won the championship of the regional informatics Olympics. I taught myself advanced mathematics, but I grew up to be a liberal arts student.
So in his opinion, it is normal for Vita to learn programming at this age, and the key lies in the guidance and training methods. He said, 'learning programming is not about writing code. For children, you can play some puzzle games first and cultivate the habit of thinking.'
He also provides Vita with an environment for learning programming - there are often discussions between father and son beyond the age range, such as exploring the counting rules of Roman numerals to explore the importance of logical system.
At the same time, Zhou huajuan is not taboo to let children get attention. He believes that teaching others is the best way to help yourself learn knowledge. In the process of teaching, you can find the weak links of your knowledge and find better solutions.
So in August this year, he opened an account on station B in the name of Vita Jun and uploaded programming teaching videos. He is responsible for daily work such as recording, editing and operation.
On station B, he is often accused of 'primary school students teach you programming' as the title party.
Zhou huajuan responded that this is a normal way of content operation. It can get more attention and praise, which is also very helpful for children's learning enthusiasm.
In his opinion, whether learning programming or anything else, cultivating interest is always the first. With interest, you have the most powerful internal drive. The next step is to constantly provide resources and opportunities to encourage children to constantly challenge a higher realm.
In terms of family education and interest cultivation, Zhou huajuan said that parents' own interest in this matter is the most powerful fire:
'the so-called 'family origin' often does not lie in the parents' high attainments in a certain field, but in the parents' enthusiasm in a certain field -- believe that when you think something is cool, this feeling can be conveyed to your children. '
Cause hot discussion and lead more parents to think
Vita's popularity also makes more Chinese parents pay attention to the importance of children's programming education.
In particular, global influential CEOs such as cook personally support and increase their influence.
In fact, cook has always been very concerned about the promotion of Apple products and culture on education. In many public occasions, programming education and the popularity of Apple products on programming education are one of his favorite topics.
Earlier, apple founder Steve Jobs also made it clear that programming can teach people how to think.
The emergence of Vita children makes more parents know that it is not necessary to write complex code for children to learn programming, but can cultivate their thinking ability, logic ability, and ability to analyze and solve problems.
Of course, Vita's father's guidance and education methods also make many Chinese children and parents sigh.
One comment that resonates is:
'his iPad is not locked.'
Perhaps in China, most parents still have a complex attitude towards electronic products, and in extreme cases, they directly 'abandon their saints and wisdom'.
Therefore, in the external sharing, Vita's father Zhou huajuan called for more tolerance for electronic devices than using the parental control function to control the use time and content of children's electronic devices.
"This is just a new interactive learning tool, not a scourge. Rather than controlling the use time of electronic devices, we should pay more attention to the screening and guidance of content and encourage children to ensure enough outdoor activities."
One more thing…& hellip;
Finally, let's say a little thing. Many people think that Mr. Vita is wearing glasses. Is he myopia due to excessive use of electronic equipment.
Zhou huajuan also gave a response. In fact, heredity is greater than the day after tomorrow. Vita's father said that from the middle class of kindergarten, Vita's refraction is bad and mydriasis is ineffective (true myopia). If from a scientific point of view, the refractive problem of preschool children is greatly affected by genetic factors.
It can be regarded as further dispelling the concerns of more parents.
Finally, qubit also wants to wish Vita a happy birthday and happy growth.
Thanks to children like vita and his parents, they provide an example to learn from.
Especially at present, with the continuous influence of AI, knowing and learning programming may better face the new era.
what you think?