This story is bound to make all of us think about what we were doing at just 9 years of age. I personally can't recall much about being 9 years old but what I can tell you is that I wasn't writing programs for computers.
Lim Ding Wen is currently in fourth grade and he resides in Singapore. His father claims that he is the world's youngest Apple IIGS programmer but it doesn't matter much if he is the youngest or not because the boy simply loves programming. Ding Wen began using a computer at the age of 2 and started learning programming at just 7 years of age. He is now fluid in six programming languages.
Ding Wen's current claim to fame is an application he originally created for the Apple IIGS titled Doodle Kids. Doodle Kids is a drawing application that he created for his younger sisters. The application has since been ported to the iPhone and it is currently available at the App Store for free.
Ding Wen's father, Lim Thye Chean, is a CTO of an IT company and has been programming as well for many years. Ding Wen and his father now compete to see whose application is downloaded the most often. Doodle Kids has been downloaded over 4,000 times and after all of this publicity I am sure Ding Wen will win this round.
Lim Ding Wen is currently working on a new sci-fi game called Invader Wars. Keep an eye out for this little guy, he may just surprise us again someday.
[via Reuters]
