Simon’s Got Lego!
This weekend, our dear guests from Amsterdam gave Simon his first Lego set. He didn’t use to get excited about Lego but everything has changed since so many electronics building … Continue reading Simon’s Got Lego!
Month: October 2016
Digisnacks
Yesterday at Simon’s first session by the Digisnacks, a course offered by the Antwerp University’s computer science faculty. The session was about computer history, what’s inside the computer and binary language.
All About Energy
Simon has been studying energy units such as C (coulombs), V (volts) and J (joules), and the relation between them. This is one of the best video tutorials he found … Continue reading All About Energy
Sometimes it just doesn’t work
Simon was trying to program his Arduino board to use a magnetic switch to turn an LED on and off, but the code didn’t work. The LED was burning no … Continue reading Sometimes it just doesn’t work
CodeFever
Simon has been attending this weekly Scratch club CodeFever since the end of September. At the beginning they suggested placing him in the oldest group, for 12 to 15 year olds, but after … Continue reading CodeFever
Code Academy Python Courses, Day 2.
Today we had a much busier day as we had to bike for two hours to get Simon to his Scratch programming class. That said, Code Academy still largely ruled … Continue reading Code Academy Python Courses, Day 2.
Code Academy Python Courses
Tuesday morning I briefly showed Code Academy’s website to Simon: “Look, you can learn to code in Python right here. And here’s a list of other coding languages”, – I … Continue reading Code Academy Python Courses
Differences
Simon has been busy unraveling the differences between Arduino, JavaScript and Python. Here I caught him trying to explain notions as qualified/unqualified and indenting instead of curly braces in Python. He … Continue reading Differences
Simon translates code from Python to Arduino
To write a Python project in Arduino Simon had to calculate how many milliseconds there are in one day, one month and one year. Here he explains how he did … Continue reading Simon translates code from Python to Arduino
Python
Simon is exercising in Python. He tried to replicate the Blink LED project from an online Raspberry Pi tutorial here:
Geeks out of the box 