Comments on: Meet the 12-year-old who’s pitching his app at SXSW http://gigaom.com/2013/03/11/meet-the-12-year-old-whos-pitching-his-app-at-sxsw/ Fri, 24 May 2013 09:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ganesh Baloo http://gigaom.com/2013/03/11/meet-the-12-year-old-whos-pitching-his-app-at-sxsw/#comment-1320935 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:10:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619324#comment-1320935 if some one can tell me what were the tools Ethan used to build his Lazy Husband app, I’d be grateful. Mail me at lambodara@rediffmail.com.
Thanks,
Looking forward to hearing from you,
With best regards,
Ganesh

]]> By: Gary Dauphin http://gigaom.com/2013/03/11/meet-the-12-year-old-whos-pitching-his-app-at-sxsw/#comment-1319621 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:31:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619324#comment-1319621 hardly worthy of a story…

]]> By: A. I. Sajib http://gigaom.com/2013/03/11/meet-the-12-year-old-whos-pitching-his-app-at-sxsw/#comment-1319456 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:16:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619324#comment-1319456 Not sure what to say. But one thing is for sure, he’s got an opportunity.

]]> By: Lelala http://gigaom.com/2013/03/11/meet-the-12-year-old-whos-pitching-his-app-at-sxsw/#comment-1319345 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:23:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619324#comment-1319345 Good luck for the young guy, great success! A finished & shipped product at the age of 12 – great :-)
Regards

]]> By: canderson18 http://gigaom.com/2013/03/11/meet-the-12-year-old-whos-pitching-his-app-at-sxsw/#comment-1319260 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:05:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619324#comment-1319260 Well done to the kid, good luck for future apps too!

]]> By: Paul Martin http://gigaom.com/2013/03/11/meet-the-12-year-old-whos-pitching-his-app-at-sxsw/#comment-1319247 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:19:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619324#comment-1319247 A1. Not everyone’s Dad works at Zappos
A2. I don’t deny that kids should acquire useable skills for work but hey let’s here it for geometry; I think you will find that an understanding of such helps an understanding of life … Margaret Thatcher was convinced of the merits of the Higgs Boson in one side of paper see http://vixra.org/abs/1209.0081
A3 (reprise on A1) Such stories as these raise expectations amongst the governing classes that programming et al is simple enough for a 12 yr old (the young man’s head start will be omitted downstream). I am not sure if it was the input of Eric Schmidt that has led to the collapse in the UK Comp Sci teacher uptake (http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6320900) but to agree with you a lot of “mentors .. stuff” is required; otherwise many teachers would have come forward for retraining.

So in summary I was waving the flag for let’s not get too excited as this, unless education improves beyond all recognition, will not be the norm despite the best efforts of all concerned.

]]> By: John Kiser http://gigaom.com/2013/03/11/meet-the-12-year-old-whos-pitching-his-app-at-sxsw/#comment-1319196 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:47:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619324#comment-1319196 Paul what exactly is preventing this from being some sort of norm? Kids should learn actual usable skills they can use in a job during their schooling once they hit a certain age. Mentors in those fields helping out, teaching courses on stuff like this etc would go a lot further than learning geometry and creative writing.

]]> By: Victor Nad http://gigaom.com/2013/03/11/meet-the-12-year-old-whos-pitching-his-app-at-sxsw/#comment-1319190 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:22:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619324#comment-1319190 Very smart kid! Good luck him with future apps too!
I wonder if you saw ibuildapp.com? They offer to built mobile customized apps. I also tried to pick up some coding and watched few courses of HTML and Python-tutorials so my coding skills were very basic. They also have huge online community with tons of design and templates. I mean nowadays coding is a commodity in some sense, so if you need something simple and fast there are tons of tools like ibuilapp.

]]> By: Paul Martin http://gigaom.com/2013/03/11/meet-the-12-year-old-whos-pitching-his-app-at-sxsw/#comment-1319188 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:19:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619324#comment-1319188 While I am pleased for the young man I worry that there are politicians out there who will thing that this can be some sort of norm.

]]> By: phil http://gigaom.com/2013/03/11/meet-the-12-year-old-whos-pitching-his-app-at-sxsw/#comment-1319186 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:17:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=619324#comment-1319186 That is really…really dumb.

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