Child prodigy
Child prodigy programmer Lim Ding Wen makes Doodle Kids iPhone application
WHILST most children sketch on paper with crayons,9 year old Lim Ding Wen, has a very different plan - his iPhone.
Lim, who is in grade 4 in Singapore, writes applications for Apple’s popular iPhone.
His latest, a painting program called Doodle Kids, has been downloaded over 4000 times from Apple’s iTunes store in two weeks, the New Paper reports.
The program lets iPhone users draw with their fingers on the touchscreen and then clear the screen by shaking the phone.
“I wrote the program for my younger sisters, who like to draw,” Lim said. His sisters are 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.
“Every evening we check the statistics emailed to us (by iTunes) to see who has more downloads,” the older Lim said.