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I wish I wasn't the one to play the skeptic, but I'm naturally skeptical about stories like this. Kids are often used as fronts for adults looking for a promoti

by ergo98 16y ago

I wish I wasn't the one to play the skeptic, but I'm naturally skeptical about stories like this. Kids are often used as fronts for adults looking for a promotion vehicle.

ArabGeek 16y ago
the story was picked up from Kuwaiti blog i do not think his father is the developer using his kid's age!
- ArabGeek 16y ago
  go to the app profile on iTunes it got his name
kranner 16y ago
If you're interested in this theme (adults using kids as promotional vehicles), I can recommend a sharp satire I'm reading at the moment: http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Men-Novel-Manu-Joseph/dp/0393338592/ http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Men-Novel-Manu-Joseph/dp/03933... Blurb from that page: "... a subtly wicked satire of subterfuge and ambition that bounces between the Mumbai tenement where low-caste Ayyan Mani lives, and the esteemed research institute where he labors as the assistant of top researcher Arvind Acharya. Forever spiteful toward his privileged superiors, Ayyan is deviously mischievous and pulls off a stunt that ends with his half-deaf (but otherwise ordinary) son being proclaimed in the local news as a boy genius. Meanwhile, Arvind is obsessed with proving his theory that extraterrestrial microbes are raining down on Earth from the upper atmosphere. "
- ArabGeek 16y ago
  so u r saying that kids at 14 can not code? he is not the first one to be an entrepreneur at his age in the world
  - csomar 16y ago
    The game doesn't seem to involve so much coding. Actually, it's not about the game, it's about how it got around 1 million download. If you want to show us a 14 kid coding, then get it to do some coding stuff. Example, solve a math. equation or write an algorithm or hack Windows kernel... If you show us 800K downloads, it's just the app success that happens either by good planing and marketing or a sheer luck.
    - orangecat 16y ago
      If he did his own physics engine, that's pretty impressive.
      - raquo 16y ago
        Why would he bother writing his own physics engine if there are free and easy solutions already? People who invent their bicycles don't end up shipping stuff in two weeks with no prior programming experience. http://cocos2d-iphone.org http://cocos2d-iphone.org (which uses:) * http://code.google.com/p/chipmunk-physics/ http://code.google.com/p/chipmunk-physics/ * http://www.box2d.org/ http://www.box2d.org/
    - ArabGeek 16y ago
      yes i agree it is how he got around 1 million downloads
    - ergo98 16y ago
      >The game doesn't seem to involve so much coding. There are layers of complexity that you simply can't avoid. Add that even the simplest physics algorithms are non-trivial. Many of us were programming before we hit the grand double digits, however in ways modern development is more difficult in some ways because you're building on layers and layers of existing code (Motorola assembly was easy compared to developing for the iphone or Android), which is where experience comes into play. Nonetheless, the way this story was delivered, the fact that this kid has purportedly made 10 apps...I dunno it seems like a really clumsy marketing tactic.
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PaulGram 16y ago
cough hater cough...

by ergo98 16y ago

I wish I wasn't the one to play the skeptic, but I'm naturally skeptical about stories like this. Kids are often used as fronts for adults looking for a promotion vehicle.

ArabGeek 16y ago

the story was picked up from Kuwaiti blog i do not think his father is the developer using his kid's age!

ArabGeek 16y ago
go to the app profile on iTunes it got his name

kranner 16y ago

If you're interested in this theme (adults using kids as promotional vehicles), I can recommend a sharp satire I'm reading at the moment: http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Men-Novel-Manu-Joseph/dp/0393338592/ http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Men-Novel-Manu-Joseph/dp/03933... Blurb from that page: "... a subtly wicked satire of subterfuge and ambition that bounces between the Mumbai tenement where low-caste Ayyan Mani lives, and the esteemed research institute where he labors as the assistant of top researcher Arvind Acharya. Forever spiteful toward his privileged superiors, Ayyan is deviously mischievous and pulls off a stunt that ends with his half-deaf (but otherwise ordinary) son being proclaimed in the local news as a boy genius. Meanwhile, Arvind is obsessed with proving his theory that extraterrestrial microbes are raining down on Earth from the upper atmosphere. "

ArabGeek 16y ago
so u r saying that kids at 14 can not code? he is not the first one to be an entrepreneur at his age in the world
- csomar 16y ago
  The game doesn't seem to involve so much coding. Actually, it's not about the game, it's about how it got around 1 million download. If you want to show us a 14 kid coding, then get it to do some coding stuff. Example, solve a math. equation or write an algorithm or hack Windows kernel... If you show us 800K downloads, it's just the app success that happens either by good planing and marketing or a sheer luck.
  - orangecat 16y ago
    If he did his own physics engine, that's pretty impressive.
    - raquo 16y ago
      Why would he bother writing his own physics engine if there are free and easy solutions already? People who invent their bicycles don't end up shipping stuff in two weeks with no prior programming experience. http://cocos2d-iphone.org http://cocos2d-iphone.org (which uses:) * http://code.google.com/p/chipmunk-physics/ http://code.google.com/p/chipmunk-physics/ * http://www.box2d.org/ http://www.box2d.org/
  - ArabGeek 16y ago
    yes i agree it is how he got around 1 million downloads
  - ergo98 16y ago
    >The game doesn't seem to involve so much coding. There are layers of complexity that you simply can't avoid. Add that even the simplest physics algorithms are non-trivial. Many of us were programming before we hit the grand double digits, however in ways modern development is more difficult in some ways because you're building on layers and layers of existing code (Motorola assembly was easy compared to developing for the iphone or Android), which is where experience comes into play. Nonetheless, the way this story was delivered, the fact that this kid has purportedly made 10 apps...I dunno it seems like a really clumsy marketing tactic.
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PaulGram 16y ago

cough hater cough...