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Anthony Holstein19

Montréal, QC, Canada

Hi! I am Anthony, a self-taught programmer and a future aerospace engineer. I’ve been programming since I’m 8, where my dad taught me HTML. During my early teenage years, I’ve been learning C++ and Swift. During the pandemic, I published my first app called Hit the Ball. I am among the 350 winners of Swift Student Challenge 2024. I made an app called Palette Vision which detects palettes of colours in real-time through a K-means++ algorithm.

Scholarships

Anthony has been awarded a WWDC scholarship in 2024. Here is the submission that got him there.

In 2024, applicants were tasked with creating an interactive app playground on the topic of their choice to showcase their passion for coding. New for 2024, 50 Distinguished Winners were recognized for their outstanding submissions and invited to Apple in Cupertino. Here’s how Anthony describes his winning submission.

I made PaletteVision, an app which detects palettes of colours in real-time from device’s camera or photos, through a K-means++ algorithm. My app was programmed entirely using SwiftUI, and I used Accelerate, Vision/Core ML as well as PhotoKit.