Yeah, if a 16 year old makes an app like this it's certainly a good thing, but I'd be hesitant to say it makes them a prodigy. Kids are not stupid, and a smart,

Yeah, if a 16 year old makes an app like this it's certainly a good thing, but I'd be hesitant to say it makes them a prodigy. Kids are not stupid, and a smart, determined kid or teen can often outdo an adult or team of adults when it comes to programming, especially if it's something they're personally interested. Look at the golden age of games over here in the UK if you need proof of that. You've got many stories of famous game designers and developers starting as kids with a ZX Spectrum or Amiga and learning to code extremely impressive games in the teens or younger (and sometimes ending up employed in the field before they've even left school). There's also the fan game, ROM hack and game mod fields, where quite a few notable users are between 12 and 15 years old, yet have learnt enough about the hobby to learn how to write assembly code and build tools to help reverse engineer a game made by a team of hundreds. Add to this the no doubt thousands of great website and app developers in the same age range as the subject of the article, and well, while writing an app at 16 is impressive, it's certainly not some impossible task that couldn't have been done without outside help.