Boy Genius Creates iPhone App
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Mar 2 2010, 8:03 AM
As 10-year-old Lim Ding Wei blasts alien space ships
on a computer screen in his living room, his father Lim Thye Chean looks
over his shoulder proudly.
From being the teacher, Thye Chean, 40, a chief technology officer at
a local firm, has now become the student of his son, whom local media
reports fete as Singapore's youngest programmer of mobile applications.
The game is the latest in Ding Wei's repertoire of mobile
applications, which include the hit Invader Wars 1 as well as art
scrawler Doodle Kids that has registered more than half a million
downloads since it was posted on the iPhone App Store last year.
I can only imagine what it would feel like to have your own son surpass your intelligence before he's even got a learner's permit. What the hell was his dad feeding him? And where can I get some?
At ten years old I couldn't even pass Dr. Wily's fortress let alone create entire applications for a smart phone - or any phone for that matter. But how good is he at Nintendo? That's the real question. Because I've seen a youngster that would be all over him like a Koopa kid on a spiked mushroom. No bullshit.
As 10-year-old Lim Ding Wei blasts alien space ships on a computer screen in his living room, his father Lim Thye Chean looks over his shoulder proudly.From being the teacher, Thye Chean, 40, a chief technology officer at a local firm, has now become the student of his son, whom local media reports fete as Singapore's youngest programmer of mobile applications.
The game is the latest in Ding Wei's repertoire of mobile applications, which include the hit Invader Wars 1 as well as art scrawler Doodle Kids that has registered more than half a million downloads since it was posted on the iPhone App Store last year.
I can only imagine what it would feel like to have your own son surpass your intelligence before he's even got a learner's permit. What the hell was his dad feeding him? And where can I get some?
At ten years old I couldn't even pass Dr. Wily's fortress let alone create entire applications for a smart phone - or any phone for that matter. But how good is he at Nintendo? That's the real question. Because I've seen a youngster that would be all over him like a Koopa kid on a spiked mushroom. No bullshit.
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