Nine-Year Old Whiz-Kid Writes iPhone Application

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While most children his age sketch on paper with crayons, nine-year old Lim Ding Wen from Singapore, has a very different canvas -- his iPhone.

Lim, who is in fourth grade, writes applications for Apple's popular iPhone. His latest, a painting program called Doodle Kids, has been downloaded over 4,000 times from Apple's iTunes store in two weeks, the New Paper reported on Thursday.

The program lets iPhone users draw with their fingers by touching the iPhone's touchscreen and then clear the screen by shaking the phone.

"I wrote the program for my younger sisters, who like to draw," Lim said. His sisters are aged 3 and 5. Lim, who is fluent in six programing languages, started using the computer at the age of 2. He has since completed about 20 programing projects.

Lim isn’t the only young entrepreneur making money online with iPhone applications, last month we reported on a bunch of 22-year olds who were earning $100,000s online selling their iPhone application online. Perhaps one day we will see one of these programmers join our Rich List through their success of programming iPhone applications!

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By charles On 2009-02-10

bloody hell that lim kid is well good he started using a computer at thje age of two the kid will be the best person on a computer ever when he gets older and good luck to him.

I am proud of my fellow Singaporean

By Charles Lau On 2009-02-21

I am really proud of him as a fellow Singaporean. Nice post! :)

By Laurence Flynn On 2009-03-08

Wow, that's insane! My daughter is 10 and I can't imagine her even playing games on a computer.

kewl

By fas On 2009-03-09

This is truly amazing.Foes to show how much weightage an iphone application keeps infront of a degree.

:~0

By Nic Merry On 2009-03-10

Although this is very impressive, i am 14 and i had the oppertunity to look at the SDK, iPhone developper programme, this is the programme used for creating applications, and it isn't as hard as the media is making you seem to believe. I am astonished that this Lim Ding managed to understand the basics of a pc and/or mac at the age of two, i think that is what the mdeia should be focusing on, however i am not surprised that he created a touch based canvas simulator on the iphone/ipod touch, but it goes without saying that he has a vast knowledge of electronics, compared to a 20 year old. Thanks Nic Merry

Star Children

By GLoLady On 2009-03-29

We seem to be in utter amazement these brilliant Star children being born today. Numerology there are Master numbers being born in enormous rates.

Gifted child

By wow gold On 2009-04-06

Wow! He's really a computer genius. I never heard a child who had this kind of talents but only until today. I heard so many talented and gifted child's. But this is the only day that i heard a 9 year old child who created an application for i phones and really fluent for six programming languages. I know this kid really have a great future in computer technology field.

Appreciation

By Vidit Kothari On 2009-04-10

He is my ideal. I am 17, started computer @ 14. Now am expert in following: HTML, CSS, Ajax, VB, JavaScript, XML, SQL, Perl, Python, etc. Am a good designer too.. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, GoLive, Fireworks, etc.

iPhone

By Alex On 2009-05-12

It always surprises me that people invest anything into applications for the iPhone. I always considered it to be such a lame device. But yeah, a 9 year old programmer? That makes me jealous... when I was 9 I barely knew what a computer was!

Youthful Creativity

By Marketing Man On 2009-05-19

I like it! If you've got talent, you can be a success in the internet realm, regardless of age. I like the shaking of the phone to clear the screen, that is quite a cool feature of this app. What engineer would have thought of this novel approach? Viva the creativity of youth!

By Paula from Affiliate Blog Online On 2009-10-18

Good on him! He'll be on his way to retiring at 21 if he keeps at it.

By Savings Account Girl On 2009-07-21

That's so funny - I didn't know that the program I was using was created by a 9 year old. :) Well I guess I know now.

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