9 year old Singaporean Whiz Kid create popular iphone application

[Beefywork]

@erathtech The fact you cant tell the difference between a markup language 'HTML' and a programming language like 'Objective C' tells me your a liar... Go bullshit elsewhere.

[Shurupadi]

I guess might be talking about another story about a young very talented for that age child . I don't think if you added the video in 2009 it would be on the mews tonight in 2011 ?? Ha! But just the same Good Luck to you!!

[Shurupadi]

That's fantastic !! I watched the news clip of you tonight, made it all the way to Wisconsin . These are good times for a young man to enjoy computers Woohoo!! Keep having fun with this you will always have more things to learn and teach. Yes you can be a programer because you got SKILLS KID!! Thats amasing work (fun) hehe .Good Job!! Great Video.

[cedadet]

everybody go to xpforums.net its badass for programming and gaming.

and to the retard under me.... shut up. you didnt MASTER shit. im a software AND hardware engineering major. even if you were telling the truth you need to be inovative and i highly doubt your kid ass is. good luck in life idiot. and i would only consider one of the things you listed a real language lmao!!!!!!. and ohhh you have 5website??? ohhhh wowww you have multiple website

[erathtech]

Youngest programmer in the world?!? Yeah right.; I have 5 website and 1 iphone app.

I know CSS, Objective C, PHP, HTML, JQuery, and more. I started at age 7...

[DarkGhoul45]

@erathtech Chill chill the media just caught him. You're not the only one. Just keep doing what you're doing.

[KubleeIscool]

everytime a kid do something like that, it jux make me feel stupied.

[2kyekye]

I have created 5 mobile apps (7 different platforms) and im only 12

[hewsiewlan]

@2kyekye OH! Just Hello World right. yeah most of the 6years old kids can do that already.

[InsanEternelity]

I hate u >:( i can't even be a programmer when he is younger than me and is better than me :(

[utubegui1]

0:18 buy the kid a computer chair for god sakes!!!

[ricky6565]

lol i'd hazard a guess that his dad does most of the code and the child takes all the credit

[aznboynl]

uber nerd... =P

[koneki6787]

holy **** the girl digging his nose?!!!!

[LittlePokeDigi]

Pro Kid

[thunderbow9]

I think he's a gemini xP

[Ethan15811]

I can tell this kid is going to make some great stuff, and build his own very adavnced stuff.

[Player1070]

His name sounds like Ling Linge from the awesome night tv programm (i've forgetten name of it :S)

[helmet98]

He should be 12 by this year

[NOTBxGLITCHER]

im 13 and i have an app on the store, but he's 9 ? wtf

[Starrykid101]

@NOTBxGLITCHER Cool, what app is it? I'd like to check it out ^^

[GTAgamesfans]

This kid got potiential :) I think he's a bit like me :D

[pandaman0529]

You don't want to be a code monkey, kid. Aim for the higher stuff in comp sci.

[syazz963]

0:43 fail! haha

[dedikhasif]

lier

hes father helped him

[spartand001]

@dedikhasif lol,if this is from america you people would call him genius.example:justin bieber(hes from canada)where he can sing,but in asia and china got talent 2010 that pianist with no hands got criticism from some jealous american kids who support justin bieber.thats my point,dont be jealous.

and i find that annoying(no offence)

[MyMusicToday1]

do you really think that there would be this much speculation if it wasn't real?

[1macsucks1]

I am now 13, and am fluent in FreeBASIC, PHP, AS3, AutoIT, JavaScript, Perl, and a bit of C. Doubters can view some source code that I have written upon request via PM.

[Mattdude411]

He made a very simple iPhone app. Probably the people bought it because they wanted to see what the kid did.

[Mattdude411]

@Mattdude411 Don't get me wrong, he did a really good job, assuming his parents never tried to teach him. Of course, their parents can make the app and give him full credit, but it is unlikely.

[dedikhasif]

@Mattdude411 its true

[Fr0ntyardProductions]

im singaporean :D but i live in bc

[puffm098]

Oh yeah and for those saying get a life this kid is a cheat!!! No way he would of lernt that at school so he obvosly got the programing of a website and no I'm not jelous of a cheat!!!!!!

[willreynolds14]

@puffm098 how can you say that, he might have of taken an after school class or something and you would think that if he had of cheated his parents would know!!!

[puffm098]

@willreynolds14 Bull shit. if his parents knew they wouldnt care because he would of made them money!!

[dedikhasif]

@willreynolds14 no our school does not have any programming classes

[puffm098]

Bet u he looked it up on google and copied the scrips so little ling ding fuking dumbshit can go fuck him self and he should look out for clean up the world day cause I'm gonna throw him right in the trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Qiuxuan123]

I would never be able to do that on my life times! I am still now walking towards my adulthood!

[eldiablo9604]

i made the telephone when i was 6....beat that ling ding fucking wing!

[FantageStar]

I built my own cables and made my own pc from scratch when I was 12

[CoffeeShopser]

zZz... I start programming when i was 10.

[matashiki]

wow.... so young and he's into programming, pretty awesome if you ask me, i only learn how to program at the age of 13... pretty lucky too, with the father giving him everything...

don't complain about the working life when it comes to you! just to say, enjoy your childhood while it lasts~

[snachip]

when do we see him fight like a ninja?.... i'm waiting...

[adelinegomez]

LOOK AT 0:49 LMAO !

[snachip]

urphunny

[DBZmage]

Programah becuz i want to be a programah!

[pigprodoctions]

my brother is 10 and made an iphone and an html website

[omoshitanoshi]

but people did it when they are ONLY 9.. so drop those comparisons.. i

[deansilverz]

write in so that your brother can also get famous!

[Daxter609]

Pretty amazing for his age most people aorund my age know how to program like him and I'm 13. I guess teenagers in America feel pretty stupid cause most kids in my middle school can't find the volume control on a Windows.

[switskye]

the kid is so talented. (period)

someday he might invent something that you bashers might get involved in, so stop criticizing. get a life!

hey kiddo i wish you well!

[kawlabodo]

lol

[XSiaoUploaderX]

Rich mah, sort of azn

[SterSpear]

Seriously, if you think all of this is fake then what you all are playing right now(HIS game) then you are supporting his early career. Who knows when he grows up he might just take control of Apple, and what are you? The people who thinks this boy is a fake, would be rusting in a corner of Orchard Road or NYC(If youre an American) asking for money.

[278300zzz]

He's inordinately brilliant. There was this colleague of my Mum's who has this tenant, that has not since completed even his O-levels. However, he told his boss " I might not have a degree but I have not worked under anyone.". Also, he designed a programme and managed to clinch the deal and eventually, he got the job.

[HesseKun]

I think everything he has achieved is amazing for his age. Let's not be immature... thats even possible for some of you...

[fritz578]

this kid actually has a future.

[jeremy1294]

I bet all the negative comments aren't from an Asian society. Just because a 9 year-old kid is able to programe stuff doesn't give you the merit to diss their work.

If you guys think that the media is lying, why are even you guys watching television programmes and using the internet? Because from your logic, they are fake. So apparantly, you guys are essentially living in a virtual world.

Hey, try and make some new friends and maybe, just maybe, you understand the meaning of life.

[omoshitanoshi]

I agree with you. If this news came from an Western society, people would go hoo haa over it saying he is a genius. But when it comes to Asia, these people are just full of doubts, jealousy and envious.

[jubjubguy]

@jeremy1294 Personally, I believe there is no meaning of life, and that the entire "meaning of life" is a load of bullshit which some guy started brainstorming about, and now the world has gotten it mixed up in their heads.

[HesseKun]

It's not lies.... People stop knocking other people hard work... Let us grow up some, okay?

[DarkMnMChocolate]

I'm not saying anything but, there is a Chance... a CHANCE it was all a fake. Judging from what we know, there is no evidence that he made the application but there are several hints that suggest he doesn't have the capabilities for such an application. Shown in another video, the boy does simple algebra such as 7x10=70 (just an example) when basic programming requires precalc. If he was so smart as to be able to program, he should have been able to skip a few grades.

[DJscratchtcher]

precalc could help, but you really don't need it. most of the time, the only calculations are happening are simple increments, such as adding 1 to a value, like for a score or something.

it depends on what your coding of course though. a program that calculates gas millage would take some simple algebra, where who knows what you would be making if it required precalc.

i took precalc but had no idea what it was used for.

[kmr4096]

Ah, but in Singapore you don't skip grades, no matter how smart you are.

[kc0793]

I'm 8, and I was the one who first came up with the idea of internet. Please believe me!!!!

[N00bPwnsAll]

Why aren't you on the internet? Freaking idiot.  Ray Tomlinson, Lyndon Johnson, but multiple people created it. All were adults. Not little kids.

[kc0793]

Are you retarded or something? You would not recognize a joke if it came and hit you in the face!!

[N00bPwnsAll]

Lol. I wud. "please believe me" please please please :'( hahahaaha

[h5e5l5l5o5]

wow

[aznfire923]

What's up with all these kids trying to act like Mr. toughguy on the internet? It's pathetic. Most of you are teenagers, so you should be more mature than that. Stop trying to act cool - anyone can make a CLAIM on the internet. I can easily say that I'm Donald Trump and nobody would be able to prove me wrong.

Just grow up.

[N00bPwnsAll]

Amen.

[Joecrack253]

this news is all made up!

[browndoglover12345]

i thought u werent allowed to sign up at the application maker thinger website until the age of 18. i wanna sign up but im 12

[comneard2]

BULLSHIT im 12 and i have a app on the app store SO uh YER oh and i also helped make fake a call

[CreativeCritisizm]

i'm 9 dude & i can already advance to icon 3 systems of the new globular sector 10 systems of the new Apples, what can you do that is better, remember i am only 9 & probably lightyears ahead of you !

[rywola]

yeah but your balls havent dropped, cocky munchkin

[CreativeCritisizm]

,,my balls dropped on the floor, can you pick them up for me my caring friend ?

[rywola]

dude, your 9. stop being cocky. your 9.

[PupuTheClown]

,,he's trying to tell you that he is lightyears ahead of you & when he's your age he will amount to so much more success.

[rywola]

nice 2nd account douche. he can think he's all advanced, but no one cares until he has a good concept. doubt got a social life either.

[rywola]

fake a calls for people who cant get real people to call them, plus it is probably the easiest concept i can think of to develop

[N00bPwnsAll]

Lies.

[AnApex1]

Only a lie because of your own ignorance and jealousy...grow up jackass

[Rockflier]

Lol, nice. But I'm ten; I learned to code iPhone apps two days after it came out. XD

[gblasco63]

would you like a cookie?

[Rockflier]

lolwut

[famouzalcala]

DONT BE JEALOUS DAT UR PROBABLY LIKE 30 AND WORTHLsS

[CarMoves]

That's a lie

[Smeniac]

u are not on the news....

[haloded]

awesome!!! we Humans r crazy!!! in a good way :D

[Uhrvamo]

look... i started programming when I was 10, but u got to understant, it's not all in programing, u got to know all about computers.. from basic thing, to structure, u also got to know dos if u are working on windows, u got to know linux.. hacking.. then u can programm as prof!

[himuiie]

oh god....i'm a singaporean and it is soo...oh god! even the father can't pronounce or speak 'proper' sentences....it can be understood...but it is a perfect example of how singlish has ingrained in the dna of ppl born n bred in sg...its so sad =.= its times like these that i feel embarrassed to be a singaporean...is this post offending? but it is kinda true =.=

[sgpangya]

wat a smart kid

[juapo2]

Wow!

This is amazing, i've wondered how to code apps for iphones..

I am the youngest PHP programmer xD

Young ppl ftw

[royceanne]

whoa. that kid is cool!

[chris24sj]

This is why Asia owns the future...as american kids sit and play video games eating bergers, Asian kids take advantage of their time and youth and learn.

[otismilton]

burgers

[MandD64]

wow, u really think thats what american kids do? how sterotypical... i'm an american 14 year old, i can probably code better than this kid, and i do great in school. American kids dont just sit around playing video games and eat burgers, some of them do yes, but lots more acctualy choose to stay healthy. if that is what you think all american kids do, you are sadly misstaken.

[EnglishNowTV]

Unfortunately chris is right. Asia will lead the next two decades as far as technology and money will be concerned. Read more about it in 'The Next Great Depression' by Harry S. Dent

[phatb0yproductions]

I'm American, I'm 12 and I'm a Flash programmer.

[sh4zbot]

OH MY GOD. You are so wrong. All you do is sitting around, eating burgers. Stop it. STOP FATTY.

Americas goin down, so hard. EVERYBODY hates america. America is totally in the past, Asia is the future. Bwahahhaa u suck.

[MandD64]

dude, your calling me wrong when you are the one being racist? american kids dont sit around eating hamburgers, some do, but most dont. stop watching telivision and come to america sometime, and if you live here, open your eyes, america isent all fat people like they say on television... i dont know a singal obese person in my school let alone my city. everyone doesent hate america, i know people from all around the world that dont hate america, so shut up about it.

[MandD64]

and, i never said aisa wont lead the future, im sure they probably will.

[sh4zbot]

sorry man, I just had to. It was an ironic (and pretty dumb) post.

But truthfully - a lot of people thinks of americans as fat lazy people. But hey, it's just a dumb stereotype. Same goes for chinese people - they are ping-pong masters, and when they dont play table tennis they study, study, study. And only eat rice (and dogs). Germans lives on beer. All Italians are gay, with hairy chests. All russians are vodka-addicts.

Even though it's somewhat true, it certainly doesn't cover everyone.

[MandD64]

well said

[linkfan22]

I'm 12 and a Java Programmer. Why so stereotypical sh4zbot?

[kitkatt84]

o u r im 12 also and im a computer tech

[Fr0ntyardProductions]

@chris24sj thx dude im asian!

[DORC101]

@chris24sj Exactly! I blame the media!

[caonimazibai]

@chris24sj

Asian ?

You should specifically say "CHINESE" only

[Kevdrag77]

@chris24sj ASAIN PRIDE!

[EnglishWhitePride]

@Kevdrag77 MONKEY PRIDE !