Lim Ding Wen
Dubbed as “the world’s youngest Apple IIGS programmer and iPhone developer”, at age 9, he has the ability to program an iPhone App while most children his age sketch on paper with crayons. Born in Malaysia but currently living in Singapore, he is fluent in 6 programming languages (Javascript, Actionscript, Applesoft BASIC, GSoft BASIC, Complete Pascal, Orca/Pascal and a little Objective-C) and his first iPhone app is Doodle Kids – a drawing program. This app enables users to paint on the iPhone by using of shapes like triangles, circles, squares made up of random colors and sizes. It was approved by the folks at Apple and surprisingly, it has managed to attract over 4,000 downloads in just two weeks! What an amazing feat!
Source: TechXav
Marko Calasan
At the age of 8, Marko Calasan from Skopje, Macedonia, became the world’s youngest IT professional when he passed the Microsoft Certified System Administrator exam. Unlike his peers who skim through their comics in the break between classes, Marko takes out his copy of Implementing and Administering Security in a Microsoft Windows Server Network for a light read.
The tech giant presented him with games and DVDs after he’d passed the exams, and although he considered it a nice gesture, he said he wasn’t “really interested in those things.” “I’d like to be a computer scientist when I grow up and create a new operational system.”
Marko learnt to read and write at the age of 2 and started working on computers immediately. The news of his extraordinary achievement turned him into a local celebrity and he has even had an audience with the Macedonian Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, who presented him with an IT lab with 15 computers to practise on.
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Source: Times