9-year old writes iPhone app

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7874291.stm

This is…seriously. A nine year old kid who knows 6 programming languages and writes apps for the iPhone?

Quite an achievement, in my opinion. When I was nine adults told me to be careful whenever I were to use a computer.

"When I was nine adults told me to be careful whenever I were to use a computer."

I still am! >.<

I still deny responsibility for my mates pc bluescreening after i used it… <.<

Seriously though, that kid is gonna be epic when he is older.

And no points for guessing his skin color… ^^

K3174N 420 wrote: "When I was nine adults told me to be careful whenever I were to use a computer."

I still am! >.<

Nine? That explains a lot..

I think the kid is one of those freaky kids that kind multiply six digits at three years old.

And if his dad was lying, clearly someone would have realized it by now, and this story is almost 2 weeks old.

moshbat wrote: Two years old and using a computer?

I was 3 when I started into computing…My daughter owned (and used with help) her first computer. Now that is no problem at all. I was disassembling old telephones at 18 months…

Anyways, I think it could be true, but what is the app? depends on the kid TBH. But hey, who knows.

The kid wrote a drawing program called Doodle Kids where you can draw anything using your fingers, using the the iPhone's touch screen.

From what I heard, one of the most impressive features is that you can shake the iPhone to clear the screen. How cool is that? Even more professional devs would just implement a clear function to clear the screen, but what he wrote, is well, cool.

I'd like to see some source. What programming style could a 9-year old possibly have? It's probably very hectic and whatnot.

It is not necessary that this kid started his projects from the scratch… But the fact that he might have assembled some source codes and information is quite interesting at this age…

Very impressive (if true), and one should never underestimate the wonders of the brain. Could be that his brain is way more developed now than others are when full grown.

There are prodigy's in every field bill gates was programming some nice things when he was 7 and on a tv show once i saw a 5 year old kid play next to Steve Vai and keep up note for notes even during the crazy insane speed of light two hand tapping pieces even though I can play lots of Steve Vai I doubt i could have done it that good at 5 year's old