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9 year old writes iPhone App.
+ Show Spoiler +You might think you're pretty hot stuff because you've figured out how to change your Facebook status from your iPhone, but you've got nothing on nine-year-old Lim Ding Wen.
This young prodigy from Singapore is fluent in six programming languages, according to a BBC report this week, and his newest creation, an iPhone drawing game called Doodle Kids, has racked up over 4,000 downloads in just two weeks. He wrote it for his younger sisters, who love to draw.
Doodle Kids, which lets players sketch with their fingers on the iPhone's screen and shake it, Etch-A-Sketch-style, to clear, has already racked up a healthy three-and-a-half star rating on the App Store. One reviewer commented: "Awesome app!...Amazing that something like this was made by a 9 year old".
The title says it all. Seriously a kid at nine years old writing apps for iphone and making it a hit is aactually pretty cool. Not only that, he knows SIX programming languages >.> His father must be really smart to start teaching a kid the languages. Since you know the whole thing you learn things a lot faster at a young age.
If you want to try it out. You have to have itunes installed. It's free by the way! And it's actually really cool and fun to use. The only thing that sucks is that since you will use it on your computer you can't shake your moniter to erase it 
Doodle Kids.
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Yeah I too remember when my dad used to do 90% of the projects for me and my teacher thought I was a prodigy...
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On February 11 2009 02:05 EsX_Raptor wrote:
Yeah I too remember when my dad used to do 90% of the projects for me and my teacher thought I was a prodigy...
Those were the days...
I hated when teachers came up and congratulated me on something I didn't do though... made me feel empty inside.
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Holy shit. 9 years old?
Big Bang Theory anyone? Edit: Only this guy is CS instead of physics (my joke fails T_T)
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There are so many prodigies nowadays I feel like an idiot...
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one day, my friend, the word "nerd" would be used to address high-class people in the society
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In a couple CS classes I took, one of the graduate student instructors was a 10-11 year old French kid. Kid certainly knew his stuff, but was in no way mature enough to teach.
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I thought he was gosu at Counter Strike, I wanted vids ):
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what's a 9 yr old doing with an iPhone
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I was under the impression this was talking about a kid who was incredible at cs 1.6, and i was all hyped up.
Then its some kid who writes programs.
zzz.
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Vatican City State491 Posts
I thought that he was a counter strike genius, not computer science genius.
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//**********************************************************************************************************
// program designed to make you look like a kid that is better than every other mother's sons
// retarded. upon the release of this program, many children inferior to you will suffer as they
// will be compared to you. program is an aunto-download thus instant profit as mothers will
// be downloading it to force their children to look at it and see how successful you are and
// how retarded they are.
//***********************************************************************************************************
finger.put = line;
shake.erase = true;
end
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On February 11 2009 02:36 closed wrote:
I thought that he was a counter strike genius, not computer science genius.
I know, that's why I did it like that. To get more attention to this thread ;]
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United States17042 Posts
On February 11 2009 02:08 o3.power91 wrote:Holy shit. 9 years old? Big Bang Theory anyone? Edit: Only this guy is CS instead of physics (my joke fails T_T)
That show is pretty amazing ^_^ I love it.
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United States17042 Posts
His parents didn't think that it was that big of accomplishment as well, if I remember correctly. Super asian parents.
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On February 11 2009 02:50 GHOSTCLAW wrote:
His parents didn't think that it was that big of accomplishment as well, if I remember correctly. Super asian parents.
By saying that, I just imagined a parent beating his kid saying "THAT'S ALL YOU GOT?"
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When I read the thread title I thought you meant Counter Strike.
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Kentor
United States5784 Posts
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Programming languages are all much alike. Not that big a deal that it's six. That he does it at all is awesome though.
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???? lol
I only knew 4 programming languages when I was 9. I'm so jealous.
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