Apple Invites a Turkish Student to Its Headquarters for the First Time

Emirhan Erdoğan... Only 20 years old and a software engineering student at Bahçeşehir University. Since high school, he has been pursuing his passion for software and coding. Developing applications especially for Apple's iOS platform, Erdoğan developed his first iOS app, a calculator app called Calc Fun, during his high school years.

Let's hear the rest from Erdoğan: "When I reached my senior year of high school, I had started my biggest project up to that day. In the app, which I set out to build as a platform where people could ask and answer each other's questions during YGS and LYS exam periods, I had put the YGS aside and focused all my energy on it. After a long effort, 3 more friends joined me, but it was left unfinished due to some problems arising from our inability to work in a coordinated way."

Stating that he opened an iOS app development club at the high school he graduated from and already has three students, Erdoğan participated with 2 projects in a competition organized in the Netherlands by a major bank, on behalf of that bank. In the competition, which had more than 1,800 project entries, his project Virtual Market Place made it to the top 30 and his project Capture&Buy made it to the top 8, becoming a finalist.

Later, Erdoğan applied to WWDC, held annually by Apple and known as the world's largest developer conference, and became one of the 350 students selected from among 4,000 applicants. He says his biggest goal is to work at Apple one day.

Erdoğan also has advice for young people who will set out on this path: "People need to be in jobs that make them happy. To achieve this, you need different friendships, schools, circles, training programs and more. I measure my success by my happiness. If the world I am in does not excite me about tomorrow, whatever it is, I leave it immediately. I think software is the easiest tool to learn and apply. Playing games is good; making them is perfect!"