Lim’s a real Jie-nius with apps


Self-taught: Wern Jie started developing apps after watching tutorials on YouTube.

GEORGE TOWN: While most boys his age are just learning about computers, 13-year-old Lim Wern Jie has already developed over 50 apps.

What more, the self-taught coding wizard has received a total of 600,000 downloads, mainly from the United States and Britain, of 14 of his applications that were successfully created and published on the Apple App Store.

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