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Saturday, March 16, 2019

2 Mar 2019 - Will Alipay give Javier an offer?

Today I watched a Variety Show produced by China Zhejiang TV Channel called "智造将来", which translates to "Intelligent Future".  This programme showcases many innovative projects and technologies created by individual or companies that will benefit our daily life.  Through the most advanced TV narrative language and stage presentation technology, "Intelligent Future" fully demonstrates the power of science and technology to achieve dreams in a new and innovative way.

In the show, there was a 12 years old girl who showcased a simple game that she had created using a platform called CodeMao (编程猫).  It is actually a Chinese version of the Scratch platform that Javier has been using to code his games.  The girl claimed that she had created 45 games so far.  During a coding competition organized by Alipay, she won 2nd place but because she's the youngest participant, Alipay actually gave her an offer.   Following is the video of the above mentioned TV programme.
When I showed Javier the game that the girl had created, he immediately went to his workstation and started coding.  In about an hour's time, he completed the programming and requested me to test it out.  It actually works quite well.  He even added extra challenges to make the game more exciting.  Below is a video showing my first attempt of the game.
After watching the TV programme and trying out Javier's game, I am really proud of him.  Firstly the girl in the show is 12 years old and Javier is only 9.  Secondly, the girl had created 45 games while Javier had already created more than a hundred projects.  Finally, I'm not sure if the girl had gone through any formal training to pick up the programming skills but Javier had picked it up all through self-learning.  Now it makes me wonder if Alipay is willing to give Javier an offer as well?  :-P
Anyway, if you are interested to try out his game, click here.

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