Singaporean whiz-kid develops application for iPhone

Published on Feb 6, 2009

A fourth grade student from Singapore develops iPhone application that saw 4000 downloads in two weeks time

Published on Mar 17, 2011

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A nine-year old kid from Singapore has developed an application for the Apple iPhone. Lim Ding Wen, who is in fourth grade wrote a painting program called Doodle Kids and it has been downloaded 4,000 times from Apple's iTunes store in two weeks,Reuters News agency reported.. The program lets iPhone users draw with their fingers by touching the iPhone's touchscreen and then clear the screen by shaking the phone. Intrestingly, Lim has created this program for his younger sisters aged 3 and 5. Lim, who is fluent in six programming languages, started using the computer at the age of 2. He has since completed about 20 programming projects. His father, Lim Thye Chean, a chief technology officer at a local technology firm, also writes iPhone applications. The boy, who enjoys reading books on programming, is in the process of writing another iPhone application -- a science fiction game called "Invader Wars". 

 

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