Junior high app developer is a pre-teen tycoon in training

[vienna]

I'm feeling very, very, very old....

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/junior-high-app-developer-pre-teen-tycoon-training-002455041.html

[JU_88]

Bloody hell!
All i can say is ....Good for him! :salute:

[Sledgehammer427]

What we are seeing is the reincarnation of Steve Jobs.

[antikristuseke]

Is he also stealing other peoples ideas and selling them as his own?

[JU_88]

I suppose its possible his dad is doing for him in secret.

[steve_the_slim]

All I get is "page not found".

[Sailor Steve]

I don't like your screen name. It makes me feel like Steve-The-Fat. :stare: :O:

Hey, the truth hurts. I used to be slim, many many many years ago. Just kidding of course. :D

Did I ever welcome you aboard? :sunny:

[steve_the_slim]

I don't think so. I've been lurking for a while but only started posting when I needed to ask a question about a mod.

"Steve the slim" is a joke from a former workplace. My real name is John, but there was another John and the boss decided one of us needed a nickname, so since I'm pretty skinny I became "Slim". There was another guy that apparently thought my name was "Steve", so the other John decided to call me "Steve the Slim". This ended up becoming my standard handle on a bunch of forums because I couldn't think of anything better.

[Sailor Steve]

I don't think so. I've been lurking for a while but only started posting when I needed to ask a question about a mod.
Well then WELCOME ABOARD! :sunny:

"Steve the slim" is a joke from a former workplace. My real name is John, but there was another John and the boss decided one of us needed a nickname, so since I'm pretty skinny I became "Slim". There was another guy that apparently thought my name was "Steve", so the other John decided to call me "Steve the Slim". This ended up becoming my standard handle on a bunch of forums because I couldn't think of anything better.
That is an absolutely great story! :rock:

[magic452]

Steve the Fat. :hmmm: Has a nice ring to it me thinks. :know:
Welcome aboard mate. :salute: :O: :D

Magic

[joea]

Welcome aboard Steve! :salute:

BTW the link works for me.

As to the story really cool and come on naysayers why wouldn't a kid be able to write software!

[vienna]

I've seen some kids who are positively scary on computers. The kids don't have any real fear of the machines. When PCs first came on the market, I was tasked with teaching fellow employees, fully grown adults, how to use the PCs. We had (and this goes back a while) for spreadsheets VisiCalc, then Mutiplan, then Lotus 1-2-3 [v1.0]; for databases DBase 1.0, then Paradox; for word processing Wordstar, later the word processing component of Lotus Symphony. I had to move heaven and earth to get those employees to even touch the computers, much less use them. I attribute this in part to the really primitive (by today's standards) nature of the operating system (MS-DOS) and the available software. Now, everything related to PCs is much more intuitive, "user-friendly", and more on a human rather than technical level. Kids seemingly just "feel" the aspects of cumputers and software more than the previous generations. I have taught a few kids how to properly use computers and software and am constantly amazed at the ease with which they "connect the dots" when using PCs. The ability to make comparisons to already learned information and the information and concepts they are currently learning is key to their success. This combined with kids' natural curiosity and affinity for puzzles and riddles makes them more than capable to use hardware software and even to create programs...

[steve_the_slim]

Check this one out:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390671,00.asp