13-year-old boy learns 17 programming languages ​​and breaks record

India is certainly a country that draws a lot of attention due to its potential for creation and development in technology. For this reason, large companies are increasingly investing in young talent in the country, and it motivates many students to focus on this area. As a result, there are a lot of prodigies that appear, even in basic education.

An example is Arnav Sivram, a teenager who learned 17 programming languages. This case happened in the city of Coimbatore, which is in the state of Tamil Nadu, in southern India.

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Arnav enters the Guinness Book

The boy's feat managed to attract a lot of attention, even in the international news, as it is something unprecedented. Until then, there is no other record of someone so young able to understand and interpret this amount of programming languages. In testimony, Arnav guarantees that he started to study languages ​​like Python and Java very early, when he was still in the fourth grade, and with only nine years old.

Over time, he managed to become familiar with the systems and was already developing studies in these areas, even without them being programmed content at his school. In addition to the two languages ​​mentioned, he has also mastered C++ and Dart. These are rarer programs with a low number of specialists around the world. Apparently, the Indian teenager will have his feat recorded in the Guinness Book, the book that marks achievements and world records.

A future in programming

Although he is very young, Arnav already plans to continue in the world of programming, but with an emphasis on the development of autonomous systems for cars in India. This may seem like a very ambitious plan, but with a career start like this, the teenager has everything to go far. In an interview, he showed interest in using an artificial intelligence capable of generating autopilot with low investment.