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Nokia reveals 12 year-old app developer

Nokia reveals 12 year-old app developer

Indonesian boy building maths and English apps for mobile firm

Nokia has been blogging about Fahma Waluya Rosmansyah, 12 year-old Indonesian boy who creates games and apps that help other kids learn English and maths.

His output is quite prodigious - the lad was encoding Flash in the fifth grade, before graduating that same year to create an app called BAHAMA for the Nokia E71, which taught the alphabet, counting and colours.

In the sixth grade Rosmansyah built five more apps with one, ENRICH (Indonesian to English translator), currently available as a free download from the Ovi Store.

His next app, MANTAP (for maths), will be made available on Nokia's app store 'in the coming weeks'.

The full story can be read at ME.

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Child Labour?

posted by Jack Ward FIncham Oct 15, 2010 at 3:17 pm
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Jack Ward FIncham

Sure, you get a 12 year old indonesian boy to make apps for free and it's all fine, ask him to stitch footballs for 10p an hour and it's cruelty...

(this post may have contained sarcasm)

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