In today’s world of rapid information technology development, the first generation of children who grew up in the Internet era are at the age when Musk wrote Blastar, an air combat game, and Zuckerberg wrote ZuckNet.
But they are luckier than Musk and Zuckerberg were a decade ago. Not only do they have simpler programming tools, but they also have a direct portal to their 1.1 billion users: wechat miniprograms.
Guo Weiyi, a 12-year-old pupil, is about to graduate. The first graduation season that experiences life, Guo only has a little trouble, also a little sad, the good friend that plays together at ordinary times is about to enter different junior high school namely, the classmates of the class are holding thick classmate record to exchange each other, want to leave the good memories of elementary school time finally.
However, the classmate record is very troublesome, and it is not very convenient when you want to refer to it. What’s more, the time we get along is not a few lines of words can be written on the classmate record.
So, like all programmers who have ever changed the world, guo Weiwei, a primary school student, turned to programming to solve the problem at hand: he decided to make a small program that could upload photos and videos and let his classmates check them and leave messages for each other.
In the graduation season, Guo only prematurely experienced the programmer to catch the program on-line node pressure. He took out an hour to program every day, accept the user needs of the students, and finally rushed to the graduation before the online classmate record small program, directly changed the students’ graduation souvenir way.
His primary school life ended in July, but the small program he developed remained in the wechat of every student in his class as part of his primary school memory. This is the best graduation anniversary ever.
The enthusiasm of teenagers is often overabundant. Xiao Sheng Ho, a 17-year-old boy from Guangzhou, has also started to infuse this enthusiasm into small programs. In June 2017, Xiao Sheng Ho first got into touch with the small program which was recently launched. Before he became addicted to programming, xiao Sheng Ho was actually a young athlete. When he was in primary school, he was a member of the school’s “Dongfeng East Swimming Team”. After graduation, he continued to pay attention to the development of the school’s swimming team. However, xiao Sheng Ho found that the swimming team was inefficient and inconvenient in competition registration, score calculation and agenda notification, and it was also difficult to organize activities. Therefore, he decided to make some contributions to his Alma mater.
In two months, Xiaosheng Oyster developed a special small program named “Dongfeng East Swimming Team” for his Alma mater. In the small program, he can not only check the schedule of competitions held in various districts of Guangzhou, but also fill in the registration information online and download the competition schedule. Swimming team members encountered problems no longer need to turn to the coach, as long as open the small program, everything is under control.
Meanwhile, more mini-program inventions are sprouting around the corner. Freshman know-it-all small program, architectural encyclopedia small program, help grandpa read the newspaper magnifying glass small program, direct math math calculator small program… You never know what the kids will come up with next.
At a time when many parents still regard mobile phones as monsters, these “jump the gun” programmers are trying to tame tools rather than be controlled by them: solving life’s problems through small programs while diving into the world of programming.
“Harness technology instead of being swallowed by it” and “create value”. In order to let children’s whimsical ideas be seen, but also to let Internet programming education be popularized, wechat small program entered the K12 campus for the first time, and held the “National Youth wechat small program Creative Camp”.
On July 15, the small program creative camp officially opened in Guangzhou. Wechat selected more than 100 students from more than 700 junior high school students, with an average age of 13. The competition will last for one and a half months. Participants will undergo team training, proposal submission, work development, work evaluation and complete the whole process of small program development. Wechat has announced that it will offer a six-day customized training course, 180,000 yuan in cash and a 48-hour creative programming tour.
As early as 2017, when the Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the reform of the “new curriculum standards” for high schools, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data processing, algorithms, and open source hardware project design were officially included in the new curriculum standards.
Wechat itself has a low threshold, easy to develop make it become a high-quality tool for programming education. According to the Statistics of the China Academy of Information and Communication, nearly 50% of small programs can be completed within two weeks, which is far less difficult to develop and launch than App, but can achieve strong functions comparable to App.
At the same time, the group of small program developers also presents a younger trend. According to wechat, 5.5 percent of the 1.5 million mini program developers are under the age of 20.
This is the first collision between wechat and K12 campus, and it is also a pilot. The first pilot cooperation object is the high school affiliated to Guangzhou University. In the future, wechat will replicate this model in cities across the country, and small programs have the opportunity to make programming no longer the exclusive ability of professionals, but a tool for anyone, even a middle school student, to solve problems and express creativity.
As development becomes easier, the influence of applets continues to grow. At the fifth World Internet Conference, small program was selected as the world’s leading Internet technology achievement. “Small program is a real innovation in China’s IT industry that can affect ordinary programmers,” said Ma huateng.
Small programs are more capable of presentation, more likely to be clicked by users, and better forwarding experience. Relying on wechat, which has 1.1 billion users, miniprograms bridge the boundary between online and offline, creating an “unrestricted” development environment.
Today, even after 05 have awakened the soul of programming, into this “unlimited” development environment, it is conceivable that the future of small procedures can bring imagination space will be very broad.