[Vincent Ferrari]

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/macworld...ulariphoneapp_1

"Lim’s creation is a pretty nifty little iPhone app, called Doodle Kids. According to Reuters, the program “lets iPhone users draw with their fingers by touching the iPhone’s touchscreen and then clear the screen by shaking the phone.” (It’s also compatible with the iPod touch, incidentally.) Lim told Reuters that he “wrote the program for my younger sisters [3 and 5], who like to draw,” Lim said."

That's more than I've coded for the iPhone!  Not to sound like a crotchety old man or anything, but that's way more than nine year olds were doing when I was a kid.

[Vincent Ferrari]

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/macworld...ulariphoneapp_1

"Lim’s creation is a pretty nifty little iPhone app, called Doodle Kids. According to Reuters, the program “lets iPhone users draw with their fingers by touching the iPhone’s touchscreen and then clear the screen by shaking the phone.” (It’s also compatible with the iPod touch, incidentally.) Lim told Reuters that he “wrote the program for my younger sisters [3 and 5], who like to draw,” Lim said."

That's more than I've coded for the iPhone!  Not to sound like a crotchety old man or anything, but that's way more than nine year olds were doing when I was a kid.

[ptyork]

I remember one of the very first things I did with my Atari 800 as a 10 or 11 year old was to create a little drawing program that moved a cursor using the joystick and drew when you pressed the joystick button. I added keyboard commands for plopping in a filled in square or circle (SLOW since I was using a crazy pi-r-squared vector drawing algorithm to create the circle). Essentially a clone of a turtle graphics application than I had downloaded from some bulletin board service at 300 baud (though I remember being frustrated at how much faster their circles appeared). Version 0.0.0.0.0.0.1 of Draw or Paint, I suppose, but at "high-res," it only supported a blue background with a white foreground as I recall. Anyway, glad to see the geeks getting younger and spanning sexes.