Nine-Year-Old Writes iPhone App

Software companies big and small should live in fear of Lim Ding Wen — a nine-year-old in Singapore who’s already authored an iPhone application.

His painting app Doodle Kids, free in the iPhone App Store, doesn’t do much besides scatter colorful triangles, squares and plus signs on a virtual canvas, but he’s way ahead of his time. Doodle Kids has been downloaded 4,000 times over the past two weeks.
“I wrote the program for my younger sisters, who like to draw,” Lim told Reuters.

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