Arham Om Talsania, a 6-year-old boy from Ahmedabad in Gujarat has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records after becoming the world’s youngest programmer. This Class 2 student has cleared the Microsoft certification exam at Pearson VUE test centre.
“My father taught me coding. I started using tablets when I was 2 years old. At the age of 3, I bought gadgets with iOS and Windows. Later, I got to know that my father was working on Python,” Talsania told ANI. “When I got my certificate from Python, I was creating small games. After some time, they asked me to send some proof of work. A few months later, they approved me and I got the Guinness World Record certificate,” he said.
His father Om Talsania, who is a software engineer, had taught him how to program after observing that his son had been very much into tablets and such from a very young age. “Since he was very young he was very much interested in gadgets. He used to play games on tablet devices. He also used to solve puzzles. When he developed an interest in playing video games, he thought to create it. He used to see me doing coding,” he said.
Arham went on to tell ANI that he aspired to become a business entrepreneur one day and help the needy. He said that his aim was to create apps that benefitted the needy, as well as games.