Class 6 girl of LMGC is one of the youngest coders

LUCKNOW:Oriana Aniket, a Class 6 student of La Martiniere Girls’ College is one of the youngest coders. The 11-year-old girl started coding back in 2019 and is now an official registered app developer.

She used this three months lockdown period to further develop her skills in coding and excelled. “With school shut due to pandemic COVID-19, it gave me ample time to do online course on coding from different web portals and allowed me to hone my skills,” Oriana said.

“My mother Dr Shweta Srivastava, a medical practitioner, showed me a video of German children (much younger than me) coding. I thought if children younger to me can code, why can’t me?” she said.

That’s how she developed an interest in coding. “I started with watching beginner code tutorials with python. Then I discovered code.org which was teaching me coding absolutely free, so I started coding with blockly language (it is a JavaScript language disguised in blocks for much easier coding, under the hood we are still creating codes),” said Oriana, a techie who aspires to become IAS officer. Oriana also started learning from the Artificial intelligence (AI) robot on that website.

“Soon my parents saw the code I was creating and took it seriously and enrolled me at whitehatjunior, a web app for coding. They let me real code, code beyond blocks on code.org’s applab, gamelab and weblab to create my own apps,” she said.

“She gradually learnt concepts such as events, loops, variables, syntax and much more in real JavaScript and is now is one of the youngest game developer’s in the world,” said her father Aniket Ani, who is also from engineering background.

Her school principal, Aashrita Dass said, “It’s a proud moment for the college. We wish her all the very best as she continues to code.”