The youngest programmer of the iPhone

While classmates paint with crayons, Lim Ding Wen, 9 years old, can paint on an iPhone with software he writes himself.

Living in Singapore, Lim is in 4th grade. He can write applications for the famous iPhone iPhone.

His latest product is a graphic program called Doodle Kids, which has been downloaded more than 4,000 times from Apple's iTunes store within two weeks.

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Lim Ding Wen on the iPhone and other technology products of Apple.


This program allows users to draw with their finger on the iPhone's touch screen and delete the drawing by shaking the device.

'I write this program for my two younger sisters, they love drawing , ' Lim said. Two sisters of Lim are 5 and 3 years old.

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Software for drawing on iPhone written by Lim.


Lim started using computers from the age of 2, and so far he has mastered 6 programming languages ​​and completed 20 application software.

Father Lim, Thye Chean, a technology specialist with a software company who also wrote applications for Apple, said: 'Every day, father and son check email, read the statistics. send to see who has downloaded more programs ".

Lim has a hobby of reading programming books and plans to write more applications for the iPhone. In the meantime, is a fantasy game called 'Invader Wars'.