a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
A simple code creating a beautiful pattern using text: Based on a coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman, where he created a version of the classic one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program in … Continue reading 10 PRINT in p5.js and Python. Emulating a text console.
Simon has continued with server side programming and made a spellcheck API! Here is the link, you can play with it yourself by adding new words to the corpus (dictionary): … Continue reading Simon’s Spellcheck API
Simon has made his version of Daniel Shiffman’s Wikipedia Crawler, graphing the relatedness between Wikipedia articles. Play with it yourself online at: https://simon-tiger.github.io/wikipedia-crawler/wikipedia/ Code: https://github.com/simon-tiger/wikipedia-crawler/ Simon writes: How it Works … Continue reading Wikipedia Crawler
Simon enjoys the Matrices section of the Precalculus on Khan Academy, scoring 100 percent in the quizzes: And watching the 3 Blue 1 Brown channel:
There’s been a lot of drawing going on here lately. And jokes, like in the video above. Yesterday, after he got distracted while trying to draw the exact tangent … Continue reading Where are my compasses?
Simon created this animation in Codea during his Chinese lesson, to congratulate Dad on his 40th birthday. And this was a task he came with after the vacation:
In this small lecture Simon talks about Set, Stack, Queue and Array in Computer Science. Simon says he made a mistake in the Addendum: you can add and remove … Continue reading Set, Stack, Queue and Array in Computer Science
A milestone in server side programming here, as Simon has built a text generating machine that posts to Simon’s Twitter account! Essentially, it’s website where anyone can enter his own … Continue reading Text Generating Machine that Posts to Twitter
Oops, the Magformers are back in our life. I thought that Simon was over Magformers (which he built with excessively when he was six), but he has picked them up … Continue reading The Magformers saga continued
Last Friday Daniel Shiffman was finally back with his weekly livestreams! Simon was delirious with joy that he could be part of the team again and weeping and panicking every … Continue reading Simon’s Acrostic Machine
Simon has created a beautiful little website with a tutorial (that he wrote completely on his own, from scratch) on how to build a superellipse in JavaScript. Here is the link: https://thimbleprojects.org/simontiger/315031/ … Continue reading Simon’s Superellipse tutorial on Thimble
In this video, Simon gives an introduction to the basics of programming languages (what languages there are, which ones are front end and which ones are back end and what … Continue reading Simon’s Lecture on Programming Languages
Geeks out of the box 