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Meet the 9-Year-Old iPhone App Designer

by Lee Bains on February 5, 2009 at 12:27 PM




At the age most of us began to play video games, nine-year-old Lim Ding Wen has begun to design them, reports the Daily Mail.

Since introducing his first iPhone application to the iTunes store two weeks ago, the Singaporean youngster has already sold over 4,000 downloads of his 'Doodle Kids' game. Inspired by his younger sisters' penchants for drawing, Lim set out to design the illustration app, which allows users to "draw" lines or adjust various geometric shapes with their fingers. Such a feat is not all that surprising for a child who began working with computers at two, started programming at seven, and presently works in six different programming languages.

Apparently, Lim's next project will be called 'Invader Wars.' Let's just hope that's the name of another iPhone app, and not the description of a space-age war that the world's genius-babies plan to wage on the rest of us. [From: Daily Mail]

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