Pesaing Mark Zuckerberg?

Siapa yang tak kenal dengan Mark Zuckerber iaitu seorang programmer yang telah mencipta dan memperluaskan jaringan sosial Facebook dgn bantuan teman-temannya ketika di U Harvard. Dia juga kini telah menjadi CEO Facebook dan menjadi antara orang yg terkaya di awal usia (muda).

Disini sy ingin kongsikan sedikit cerita mengenai 2 orang kanak-kanak yang mempunyai kelebihan luar biasa yang dijangka bisa menjadi pesaing Mark Zuckerberg kelak!

Ding Wen (Singapore's) is just 11 years old, and he is one of the world’s youngest iPhone developers.

While most kids their age are busy with cartoons and computer games, these bright, young tech prodigies are busy writing complex codes and developing computer and smartphone applications.

Singapore’s very own Lim Ding Wen, 11, is one of the world’s youngest Apple IIGS programmers and iPhone developers. The Lian Hua Primary 5 pupil is fluent in six programming languages, and started using the computer at the age of 2. He has since completed about 20 programming projects.

His first iPhone application, Doodle Kids, has been downloaded over 700,000 times on Apple’s App Store. It was submitted to the Android Market too, and has garnered over 180,000 downloads.

The drawing program, which was created when he was just nine, enables users to draw shapes in random colors and then clear their work with a shake of the phone. Not bad for someone who has yet to take his PSLE.

The young programmer is now working on his latest iPad application called Invader War 2. The original Invader War version was implemented by Ding Wen on an 1986 computer Apple IIGS, but later ported to the iPhone.

Mr Lim Thye Chean, 41, quit his well-paying job as a chief technology officer at an Internet Protocol TV company in April this year to set up Virtual GS, an e-portfolio that publishes his and his son’s works.

In an interview with Yahoo! Singapore, the proud father does not think his son is a child prodigy.

“He is just a normal kid like everybody else. I think Ding Wen developed an interest in programming because his dad is a programmer. Right now, I’m happy because we can discuss programming-related stuff together, and write software to ‘compete’ with each other. It’s a father-and-son thing,” he claimed.

Ding Wen plans to become a software engineer when he grows up.

10-year-old Marko Calasan holds multiple Microsoft certificates and is the world’s youngest certified computer system administrator.

Not to be outdone but thousands of kilometres away, another tech prodigy is making waves in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

At the age of 8, Macedonian child prodigy Marko Calasan passed the Microsoft Certified System Administrator exam and became the world’s youngest certified computer system administrator. In theory, he (yes, he’s a boy) could easily snap up a job maintaining complex office computer networks even though he is still studying at his Blaze Koneski public school.

And now, at age 10, he holds four Microsoft certificates, speaks three languages, and has written a 312-page book on Windows 7. Microsoft presented Marko with games and DVDs after he had passed the exams but he said he was not “really interested in those things.”

Marko is currently working on his fifth certificate, and prefers Bing.

Deemed as the Mozart of Computers by the local press, Marko has coded an Internet Protocol television system for his school that streams high quality video throughout Macedonia. The young Microsoft genius learnt to read and write at the age of 2 and started working on computers immediately.

“I’d like to be a computer scientist when I grow up and create a new operating system,” he said.

Saksikan telatah kanak-kanak ini:

Sungguh menakjubkan ciptaan yang maha Esa, tetapi ingat sebijak mana pun manusia pasti ada kelemahan dan kekurangannya kerana tiada manusia yang sempurna di dunia ini.Allah menciptakan kita sama sahaja bezanya adalah usaha kita untuk mencari pengetahuan dan mencapai kejayaan.
p/s:  Marko Calasan ialah seorang lelaki :P


Source: http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/12/16/singapores-answer-to-mark-zuckerberg/