Computer coding captured Neth Dharmasiri’s 11-year-old imagination when his father handed him a beginner’s guide to Python — one of the world’s most popular coding languages.
“Here I am, six years later still coding,” the now-17-year-old said.
“It is difficult … [but] that appeals to me because I have a curiosity within myself to fix problems.”
A year ago Neth took on his biggest challenge yet.
Taking a leaf from Microsoft founder Bill Gates’ playbook, he set himself the task of building his own basic programming language.
“I’ve been developing it for the past year and doing a lot of user interface changes on it but it’s a fully functioning programming language,” Neth said.