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An 81-Year-Old Woman Just Created Her Own iPhone App (cnn.com)
After 43 years working in one of Japan's leading banks, 81-year-old Masako Wakamiya has launched an iPhone app called "Hinadan" that shows users how to stage traditional dolls for the Hinamatsuri festival. From a report on CNN Money: She says she felt compelled to do something after noticing a shortage of fun apps aimed at people her age. "We easily lose games when playing against young people, since our finger movements can't match their speed," Wakamiya told CNN. The retired banker asked a bunch of people to create games for seniors, but no one was interested. So she took matters into her own hands and achieved something many people half her age haven't done. "I wanted to create a fun app to get elderly people interested in smartphones," she said. "It took about half a year to develop." Wakamiya started using computers at age 60 when she was caring for her elderly mother and finding it difficult to get out and socialize with friends.
Being motivated is half the battle in most endeavors.
I am so surprised to see the similarities between the Golu I grew up with in South India and this Japanese doll festival Hinamatsuri. Images of Golu, arrangement of dolls celebrated for the Navrathri ( nine nights ) festival Images of Hinamatsuri
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
...Or she could just use facebook, like everybody else's grandma! /ducks
I'm glad to see more diversity here, even if it's a simple app. That's one badass baa-chan.
Which was more important to the slashdot editors here? That she was a woman or that she was old?
No, it was because this was the first iPhone app written in Fortran.
So did she really create the app, or did she just have the idea for someone else to do it? I seriously doubt she sat down and learned how to do this like the SJWs would have us believe.
Why not? At 81 she is retired and has plenty of time. Anyone who can think logically, understand abstractions, and is willing the to put in the time can learn how to program. Article said she was a banker, so she was a professional and would have at least basic math and logic skills. Article also said "She calls herself a technology evangelist and even wrote her own PC textbooks", so she has at least a basic computer understanding. Given determination it wouldn't be that hard to go find a sample application (and associated build process) and keep tweaking it until it does what you want.
If Objective-C ; did she use ARC or she went old school manual reference counting...... If she didn't use arc, she's a hardcore granny. Respect.
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No cookies. This was an app not a website.
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