Teenage coding wizard develops own apps


Genius at work: A file photo of Wern Jie showing his mother Jacqueline Tan one of his self-developed apps.

PETALING JAYA: Those proficient in computational thinking could one day turn into coding wizards like 14-year-old Lim Wern Jie.

Despite his young age, Wern Jie has already developed more than 50 apps which have a total of 600,000 downloads from Britain and the United States.

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