Why the Granny Coder decided to make her first iPhone game aged 77

Re:Why the Granny Coder decided to make her first iPhone gam... by alex_c on Saturday September 19, 2009 @02:33PM (#832201)

The inevitability of growing old scares me like few other things. My biggest consolation is that I should be able to keep creating no matter how old I get - and unlike other passions, this passion of ours only requires a sound mind, not necessarily a sound body.

I want to be like Marie when I grow up.

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Re:Why the Granny Coder decided to make her first iPhone gam... by rubentopo on Saturday September 19, 2009 @03:28PM (#832252)

It's such a relief for those of us who share that fear. I stumbled upon this letter yesterday, it's a complaint that a 98 year old lady wrote to her bank's CEO. (http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art42630.asp)

These two ladies are an excellent example that age is not an impediment for doing things (or doing something about things...in the latter case).

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Re:Why the Granny Coder decided to make her first iPhone gam... by cubicle67 on Saturday September 19, 2009 @07:56PM (#832483)

Hmmm... the Internet seems to have helped develop in me a very strong level of cynicism such that I'd put the chances of this being genuine at < 5%, and the Granny Coder at about 40%

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Re:Why the Granny Coder decided to make her first iPhone gam... by ciupicri on Saturday September 19, 2009 @08:01PM (#832491)

Unfortunately in some cases the mind deteriorates too, not just the body. I knew a 90+ year old women who was pretty sane, but after two years she became retarded. She was asking me something, I was answering and after 5-10 minutes she was asking the same question again.

Btw, I think that Grace Murray Hopper can be considered a model, too.

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