It’s no secret that India has one of the largest and most talented pool of working software engineers. What most people don’t know, is that India is also home to some of the largest communities of enthusiast software engineers, people who don’t necessarily code for work, but do it because they are passionate about it. Apple’s iOS, MacOS and iPadOS communities in particular, have many people working on things that one cannot even imagine.
Take Jaagrav Seal & Aayush Singh, two student enthusiasts who recently won the Apple WWDC24 Swift Student Challenge. Apple’s Swift Student Challenge is a programme that the tech giant runs to nurture emerging software talents. Over the years, several students have come up with real-life solutions in the form of apps and software to some very real and tangible problems.
In an exclusive chat with Firstpost, Jaagrav and Aayush reveal how programmes like Apple’s Swift Student Challenge encourage more and more students to take up coding, and how Apple’s hardware and software ecosystem makes it the platform of choice for software engineers and coders.
Seal, for his project, created GraphIt, an app that makes complex graphs and flowcharts along with the necessary documentation to go with it, based on text inputs as the form of code. Singh, on the other hand, made a drone simulation app based on augmented reality and has gamified the process of learning to fly drones. Both, are real-life problems that have been solved in a rather unique way. Edited excerpts:
Firstpost: Aayush, how did your fascination with drones come about? Instead of flying drones, what made you decide that you wanted to code and create apps for drones?
Aayush Singh: I’ve always loved drones and finally got one this year. I enjoy exploring different places…
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