Simon’s Chat Bots
Inspired by Daniel Shiffman’s recent live stream on chat bots, Simon made two chat bots himself. He seems to really enjoy the logic behind programming bot conversations. Daniel Shiffman even … Continue reading Simon’s Chat Bots
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.
The Towers of Hanoi
Simon is a fan of the 3Blue1Brown channel and absolutely loved their video on solving the Towers of Hanoi puzzle with binary and ternary numbers. He practiced a lot with … Continue reading The Towers of Hanoi
Lessons for Mom continued
It’s great that Simon continues to find the time to teach me some JavaScript. We’re now done with the Basic course he had prepared, below are some impressions. The video … Continue reading Lessons for Mom continued
Simon and Neva’s symbiosis
Simon is best friends with his little sis (who has just turned 6). He teaches her to make molecules and she teaches him to play hopscotch and to enjoy a … Continue reading Simon and Neva’s symbiosis
Graphic arithmetics
Simon is not only doing Precalculus en Calculus, but also enjoys maths at all levels (see previous post about The Secrets of Sums). For example, we do some Dutch elementary … Continue reading Graphic arithmetics
Chienese and pancakes
From the wonderful set “Chineasy”. Simon says he knows about 100 characters, not sure that’s true.
Magformers Pythagoras set
Simon pulled out his old Magformers Pythagoras set and this time around, he really nailed all the tasks independently. The set offers a variety of puzzles to “prove” the Pythagorean … Continue reading Magformers Pythagoras set
The Secrets of Sums
The new favourite (Murderous) Math book is The Secrets of Sums by Kjartan Poskitt. It deals with simple arithmetic and Simon found it too easy when he first opened it, but then … Continue reading The Secrets of Sums
Processing on RaspberryPi
Simon installed Processing on his RaspberryPi recently (using the terminal, which looked terribly sophisticated and scary as on Linux you’re forced to do everything through the terminal) and started preparing … Continue reading Processing on RaspberryPi
Recursion example in Code
Simon built this #recursion example/ pattern (a Sierpinski triangle) in Codea (using the language Lua) while we a had a coffee at a cafe:
Simon contributed his own cloud for the Processing Community Day
In the video below, Simon is showing the cloud design he contributed to the community project collecting cloud designs for the Processing Community Day coming up on October 21, 2017. … Continue reading Simon contributed his own cloud for the Processing Community Day
Simon Proposes a Community Project in Procedural Design
Inspired by the Processing Community Day projects, Simon came up with an idea to launch his own community project – in procedural design. He used the Coding Train Community Cloud … Continue reading Simon Proposes a Community Project in Procedural Design
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