These
secondary school students taught themselves to code and, with
encouragement from their parents and school, they’ve achieved something
extraordinary.
Anesi and Osine Ikhianosime, 13 and 15 years old respectively, are
students of Greensprings school, Anthony Campus, Lagos, and they
developed an Android based web browser called Crocodile Browser Lite
sometime last year.
As a matter of fact, these teenagers’ creation is actually on the Google
Play Store. Speaking to TechCabal.com, Osine, 13, said he writes the
code together with his brother, for their creations and his brother also
designs the user interface.
According to both brothers, they started developing an Android based web
browser, which they named Crocodile Browser Lite, about a year ago, out
of boredom. Their strong interest in technology, coupled with their
desire to learn, informed the decision to create a functional, fast
browser for low end feature phones because “We were fed up with Google Chrome”, according to them.
The brothers launched their browser on the Mobango app before taking it
onto the Google PlayStore so they could reach a wider audience. Their
browser currently has around 500 downloads, but no ads yet.
Their mother, Mrs. Ngozi Ikhianosime, a Math teacher, said,
also said that the school the boys attended also played a key role in
encouraging their love for coding. They had access to computers in
school and they both had personal laptops at home.
With regards to Anesi, who is in his final year of secondary school, his
mother says, “After Anesi is through with his secondary school
education, will attend A levels, after which he will go to MIT in Boston
for his first degree, because the university has the facilities he
needs to learn well.”
Their father agrees and attests to the fact that the school’s the boys’
attended were very instrumental in their coding aspirations and
continued interest.
As for Anesi, he would like to develop other apps with real-life problem solving applications.
The brothers plan to release a new version of their browser, Crocodile Browser Lite 3.0, this April.
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