Moms Can Make iOS Apps, Too

Who says that development is limited to the young and fresh faced populous of college towns? In just a year, Silicon Valley-based Naomi Kokubo coded her own game and had it published in a multitude of mobile app stores. The mom of two grew tired of dealing with design engineers and jumping through hoops to get the design process going, so she took her business expertise with her and set out to study a programming language to get an app into the iTunes App Store on her very own.

"I didn't even know how APIs really worked," she wrote in an email. "I used to blank out when anyone talked tech to me. I'd worked in the game business, but I was never one to code."

A year ago, Kokubo stumbled upon the Corona SDK, a mobile development framework used to create apps for various mobile platforms. After perusing the documentation, she began fooling around with sample code until she could decide what kind of game she wanted to make. "I bought the book on LUA

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