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.
Author: Geeks out of the Box
This is a blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. We write this blog together, share their projects and thoughts on their journey towards self-dicovery. They’re growing up in a supportive non-coercive learning environment. We deeply believe in interest-based, self-paced education and have had to move countries to make this possible as a family.
Visit Simon’s website at https://simontiger.com/
We are a family from Amsterdam who moved to Antwerp because homeschooling is illegal in The Netherlands.
This blog started as https://antwerpenhomeschooling.wordpress.com in March 2016. Over the years, most of our entries have gravitated towards exploring together with Simon as he has developed an insatiable passion for programming, math and science. His sister Neva is treading on his heals. We changed or name to Geeks of the Box in May 2021.
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:
Home sports
The rules are as follows: the one jumping on the trampoline throws the ball and has scored every time the other player hasn’t managed to catch it. The trampoline is … Continue reading Home sports
Simon’s new multimeter
Simon had been dreaming of owning a multimeter and learning more about measuring resistance, voltage and current. He has spent hours playing with his new multimeter since he got it … Continue reading Simon’s new multimeter
Golden Infinity
Simon came up with this “golden infinity” concept on Monday evening and had to wait until Tuesday morning to draw it for me. He started out with an equilateral triangle … Continue reading Golden Infinity
These are a few illustrations from everyday life on how Simon’s brain works
Simon (casual question in the elevator): If A is smaller than B, and B is smaller than C, and C is smaller than D, and D is smaller E, does … Continue reading These are a few illustrations from everyday life on how Simon’s brain works
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