Nine-year-old Lim Ding Wen seems like every other normal kid. He enjoys working on his computer and he wants an iPhone.
Oh yeah. And he’s also written a new application for the iPhone that is proving to be one of the most popular downloads for the popular device. Called Doodle Kids, it’s a drawing game for young children and the child in all of us, based on the old Etch-a-Sketch toys.  Â
Players sketch with their fingers on the iPhone’s screen and shake it to clear their work when they want to start over. The software has been available for download for two weeks now and has already racked up 4,000 downloads.Â
The creator is a nine-year-old boy from Singapore who fluent in six programming languages.
If you want to try the new program, you’ll need iTunes installed and you can find it here.
Nine years old and knows six programming languages. Hard to wrap the mind around that one. I thought I was king of the world by learning how to ride a bike at nine.
I am not really surprised. When I was that age and had my old *cough* C64 I was insanely interested in how it worked and how I could make my own games since shareware and game programing was really big big back in the late 80s. Almost more interested in that than playing the games themselves. With the internet as a resource interest like that could go a lot further these days. I’d be more surprised if we didn’t see kids that young using their resources to the extent they obviously can be taken.