While most children his age sketch on paper with crayons, nine-year-old Lim Ding Wen from Singapore, has a completely different canvas - his iPhone. Lim, who is in fourth grade, writing applications for Apple's popular iPhone. His latest, a painting program called Doodle Kids, has been downloaded over 4000 times from the Apple iTunes Store in two weeks, New Paper reported on Thursday.
The application lets iPhone users make with their fingers, press the iPhone has a touchscreen, and then clear the screen by shaking the phone. "I wrote this program for my younger sisters who like to paint," Lim said. His sisters are between 3 and 5 Lim, who is fluent in six programing language, began to use the computer at the age of 2 He has since completed about 20 programing projects.
His father, Lim thye cheann, senior technology at a local technology company also write iPhone applications. "Every night we see the statistics on e-mail to us (from iTunes) to see who has more downloads," the older Lim said. The boy who likes to read books on programing, is preparing to write a new iPhone application - a science fiction game called "intruder Wars."
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