天才少年

在美國曼哈顿开幕的 “TED Talks” 大会上，12岁天才少年托马斯·苏亚雷斯对台下观众分享他的创作经验与技术，自信且毫不怯场的神态简直就是年轻版的“乔布斯”。

苏亚雷斯不是最年轻的开发人员，也不是这个年龄段中最出色的，但他的自信和演讲水平令人钦佩，他经常给好友和老师讲解技术问题。

受史蒂夫·乔布斯以及父母的影响，苏亚雷斯开始学习编程，学习Python、Java和C语言。苏亚雷斯开发了知名的iPhone应用《Bustin Jieber》。如果认为这些还微不足道，那么他去年还创建了自己的公司“CarrotCorp”。

在演讲中，苏亚雷斯讨论了学生们如何成为了有价值的科技信息的来源，尤其是老师，应该被允许帮助学校开发技术课程。

In a recent TEDx Manhattan Beach talk， 6th grade student Thomas Suarez discussed his long interest in technology， how he first found it difficult to create apps and how the support of his parents， friends and Apple Store employees helped him to develop iOS apps for his company， CarrotCorp. Thomas has created several apps using the Software Development Kit from Apple， including a fortune telling one titled Earth Fortune， an AntiJustin Bieber “Whac A Mole” style game called Bustin Jieber and more. He now shares his programming knowledge with other students at a school club.

Hello everyone， my name is Thomas Suarez. Ive always had a fascination for computers and technology and Ive made a few apps for the iPhone， iPod Touch and iPad. Id like to share a couple with you today.

My first step was a unique Fortune Teller called Earth Fortune that will display different colors of the Earth depending on what your fortune was.

My favorite and most successful app is Bustin Jieber [laughs]， which is the Justin Bieber WhacAMole， I created it because a lot of people at school dislike Justin Bieber a little bit， so I decided to make the app. So I went to work programming it and released it just before the holidays in 2010.

A lot of people asked me how did I make these， a lot of time its because the person who asked the question wants to make an app also. A lot of kids these days like to play games， but now they want to make them. And its difficult because not many kids know where to go to find out how to make a program. I mean， for soccer you can go to a soccer team， for violin you can get lessons for a violin， but what if you want to make an app and their parents—kids parents might have done some of these things when they are young， but not many parents have written apps！

Where do you go to find out how to make an app？ Well this is how I approached it， this is what I did. First of all， Ive been programming in multiple—in other programming which is to get the basics down， such as the Python， C， Java， etc. And then Apple released the iPhone and with it the iPhone software development kitsoftware development kit：SDK. And the software development kit is a suite of tools for creating and programming an iPhone app. This opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me， and after playing with the software development kit a little bit， I made a couple of apps and made some test apps， one of them happen to be Earth Fortune. And I was ready to put Earth Fortune on the App StoreApp Store， and so I persuaded my parents to pay the 99dollarfee to be able to put my app on the App Store. They agreed and now my app is on the App Store.

I got a lot of interest and encouragement from my family， friends， teachers and even people at the Apple Store and thats been a huge help to me. I got a lot of inspiration from Steve Jobs， and I started an app club at school and a teacher at my school is kindly sponsoring my app club， any students on my school can come and design—learn how to design an app. This is so I can share my experiences with others.

Theres these programs called the iPad Pilot Program and some districts have them and Im fortunate enough to be part of one. A big challenge is how should the iPads be used and what apps should we put on the iPads？ So were getting feedback from teachers at the school to see what kind of apps they like， when we design the app and we sell it， it will be free to local districts and other districts that we sell to， all the money from that will go to the local ED foundations.

These days students know—usually know a little bit more than teachers with the technology. So， sorry， this is a resource to teachers and educators should recognize this resource and make good use of it.

Id like to finish up by saying what Id like to do in the future. First of all Id like to create more apps， more games. Im working with a third party company to make an app. Id like to get into Android programming and development and Id like to continue my app club and find other ways for students to share knowledge with others. Thank you.

大家好，我叫托馬斯·苏亚雷斯。一直以来我就为计算机和科技而着迷。我曾给iPhone、iPod Touch和iPad编写过一些应用程序。今天我就来给大家展示几个，我编写的第一个应用叫做地球运势，它会根据你的运势改变地球的颜色。

我最满意、最成功的应用程序是比斯汀·贾伯，它是一个恶搞贾斯汀·比伯的打地鼠游戏。我之所以编写这个游戏应用是因为在我的学校里，许多人不是那么喜欢贾斯汀·比伯，于是我就决定开发这个应用，开始编程，并在2010年暑假到来之前发布了我的作品。

许多人问过我，我是怎么做出这些应用的？而大多数情况下，问我这个问题的人也想做一个应用程序试试。现在许多孩子喜欢玩游戏，但是他们已经开始想要自己创作游戏了。这很难，因为大多数孩子不知道去哪里学习编程。我是说，如果你想学踢足球，你可以加入一个足球队；如果想学拉小提琴，你可以去兴趣班；但是如果想做应用程序，你该怎么办呢？父母们在年轻的时候可能踢过足球，拉过小提琴……但是有多少父母会编程呢？！

去哪里可以学习编程呢？我是这样做到的，我做了以下这些事。首先，我先学会了像Python、C语言、Java编程这些非iOS程序语言，打下了编写程序的基础。之后不久苹果公司推出了iPhone手机和iPhone软件开发工具包。iPhone软件开发工具包是一个创建、编写iPhone 应用的工具，而这把我带进了一个充满无限可能的世界。我小玩了一下iPhone软件开发工具包后，做了几个应用和测试应用，其中之一就是地球运势。我当时已经很有把握把地球运势放在苹果的应用商店出售，于是我说服我的父母支付进入苹果应用商店所需的99美元。他们同意了，然后我的应用就上线了。

我得到了来自家庭、朋友、老师，甚至是苹果应用商店工作人员的鼓励，他们对我的帮助很大。我从乔布斯身上获得了许多灵感，在学校里，我组建了一个应用程序俱乐部。学校里的一位老师对我的俱乐部做出了积极地响应。在我的学校里，每个人都可以来俱乐部学习如何编写应用程序。于是现在我可以与他人分享我的经历。

有一种叫iPad Pilot Program的社团组织，一些地区有这类组织，我有幸成为他们当中的一员。现在最大的挑战是如何利用iPad，应该给iPad安装什么样的程序。为此我们在学校里向老师做了反馈信息调查，看看他们喜欢什么样的应用程序。设计好之后，我们会出售那些应用。本地区的用户可以免费获得，别的地区的用户收费，之中的利润会投入到当地教育基金会。

现在，学生在技术方面通常会比老师们懂得略多一点。如此看来……对不起。这其实是老师们的资源，教育工作者应该好好认识然后加以利用。

最后我想说一下我对未来的打算。第一点，我会做更多的应用程序，更多的游戏，目前我正与一家第三方公司合作开发一款应用，我还打算运用安卓平台开发软件，继续把我的苹果俱乐部开办下去，探索与同学们分享知识的新途径。谢谢！