9yr old had 4,000 downloads

[Logan's Lady]

Nine-year-old writes hit iPhone app

Programming for the under-tens

By Mike Smith

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".



http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/nine-year-old-writes-hit-iphone-app/1287368

 

[Erzengel]

Doesn't that make you feel inadequate.

 

[Logan's Lady]

I think that's friggin awesome...

I wonder if people who write Iphone apps get any money...... cha ching!

 

[Majic Walrus]

Is this old or is this another one?

 

[Tyrinus]

For his younger sisters? No one that young needs a cell phone.

 

[Downhere]

For his younger sisters? No one that young needs a cell phone.

True, especially an IPhone. I would say a regular cheap cell phone would suffice for emergencies though.