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.
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Translating Bit Invader from Codea into JavaScript

Simon tried to reconstruct Bit Invader game (from Codea.io) in JavaScript, but got stuck at a certain point when he was programming the enemy to recognize the hero and the … Continue reading Translating Bit Invader from Codea into JavaScript

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Old men from the 19th century

Almost every evening, before going to bed, we are reading books and Simon mostly prefers math adventures. Russian author Vladimir Levshin (1904-1984) published several books about geometry, algebra and math history, … Continue reading Old men from the 19th century

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Infinite Line in Processing. Simon’s own code.

A beautiful project in Processing (Java), Simon’s own code, resembling  an El Lissitzky painting that you can control and change with the mouse (without Simon knowing El Lissitzky). Resulted from … Continue reading Infinite Line in Processing. Simon’s own code.

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Diffusion-Limited Aggregation translated into Codea

Simon translated Daniel Shiffman’s Diffusion-limited Aggregation Coding Challenge into Codea. The coding challenge explores the generative algorithm “Diffusion-Limited Aggregation”, whose visual pattern is generated from random walkers clustering around a … Continue reading Diffusion-Limited Aggregation translated into Codea

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Error with Genetic Algorithm. What is wrong?

Simon was almost done translating Smart Rockets example no. 2 (Smart Rockets Superbasic) from Daniel Shiffman’s The Nature of Code, from Processing (Java) into JavaScript in Cloud9, when he got … Continue reading Error with Genetic Algorithm. What is wrong?