9-year old writes iPhone applications

Proving that you can’t be too young to program, 9-year old Lim Deng Wen from Singapore writes software application for Apple’s iPhone.

His latest program, called Doodle Kids, lets iPhone users draw with their fingers by touching the iPhone’s touchscreen and then clear the screen by shaking the phone. It has already been dowloaded more than 4000 times in just two weeks form the iTunes store.

Lim, started using the computer at 2, is fluent in 6 different programming languages and have completed more than 20 projects.

Rossum Academy also believes in the value of teaching students from a young age to program and create digitally. MIT professor Mitchel Resnick refers to the importance of being ‘digitally fluent’, that is being able to not only work in a digital environment but being able to create new thins digitally.