Still wondering whether you can learn to program? An 81-year-old grandmother has already written an APP

In daily life, we always hear voices like this: I am xx this year, can I still learn programming? If you also have such questions, you might as well take a look at the story shared today!

Today I want to share with you the story of an 81-year-old Japanese grandmother named Masako Wakamiya. Recently, the app Hinadan she wrote has become popular——

hinadan is a very simple game that aims to teach you how to arrange traditional Japanese dolls. In the game, as long as you place the 12 dolls in the correct position, you will win and enter the next level. When your doll is placed in the right position, you will hear a 'Pon' sound, and if it is placed in the wrong position, you will hear a 'Boo' sound.

The old lady also recorded a teaching video

This game is to commemorate Japan's Girls' Day held on March 3 every year, also called the "Hina Matsuri" (one of the five major folk festivals in Japan). Families with daughters need to place small dolls at home and offer diamond-shaped sticky cakes and peach blossoms on that day to congratulate and pray for their daughters’ happiness.

Grandma Masako worked in a well-known bank in Japan for 43 years after graduating from high school until she retired. When she retired at the age of 60, she accidentally opened a magazine and it said: "If you have a computer, you can communicate with others." chat''. Although computers were very expensive at that time (1996), Masako decided to buy his first computer in order to keep in touch with his friends. The grandmother gave a speech at Ted x Tokyo when she was 79 years old. She said that her ruthless decision to buy a computer brought about earth-shaking changes in the rest of her life.

Because she didn’t know how to use it, every day after she got the computer was a struggle. Grandma Masako spent three months exploring it, setting up the computer bit by bit and connecting it to the Internet. One Sunday afternoon, when she saw "Welcome Masako" on the screen, she screamed with excitement and cried with excitement. From then on, she was truly connected to the world.

The old lady said that since she learned how to use the Internet, she felt like she had a pair of magical wings, which took her to a wider world.

Later, Grandma Masako came into contact with the Excel software. Although it is generally believed that Excel is only used for data statistics and analysis, and is a rather boring and boring software, Grandma Masako used Excel to create her own art exhibition!

What's going on?

The old lady said: ‘‘Because many old ladies like me like to knit sweaters and do handicrafts, I thought of using cells in Excel to design patterns.

In her Ted speech, the grandma also showed off her printed designs on fans, notebooks, and bags.

Grandma Masako also has a special blog to teach you how to create Excel art step by step. The tutorials inside are very detailed, even people who have never used Excel can understand it and create their own patterns. (Can be recommended to family members who like to do handicrafts!)

(When browsing the website, I always feel very warm. The old lady is so cute.)

In an interview after the release of the app, the grandmother said that the Apple Swift programming language used to write the game was taught to her by a young man living in Sendai, Tokyo, through Skype and Facebook Messenger. (I have to sigh: Grandma Masako is really amazing...)

In addition to developing apps and making Excel art, this energetic grandmother also established a club for the elderly, where she worked hard to promote technological life and help the elderly become more integrated into the online world by learning new technologies.

The club has also set up nursing home professors in each district to teach local elderly people how to use computers. Members also try their best to use the most advanced information technology when organizing activities. There are currently 450 members in the club, with an average age of 66, and 24 active members are over 80 years old.

(Club website)

"Youth, like a lark, has its morning song; old age, like a nightingale, should have its nocturne."

At 81 years old, what would you do? Do you entertain your grandchildren, buy groceries and cook at home, or bask in the sun every day to take care of yourself? And this amiable and respectable grandma Program Yuan used her own experience to explain to us the secret of the "ageless goddess" to stay young forever:

programming!

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