A young student attends an online Thunkable Inc. coding class at her home in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Shivank Patel has been learning to write software code for a year, and he’s already built a handful of apps, including one for donating food to street children. He’s working on a platform to help doctors track preterm babies. Patel, who lives near New Delhi, is 9 years old.