Chinese homework
Simon doing his Chinese homework: And here’s the same homework corrected by the tutor:
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.
Java Design Patterns
Simon has been studying Java Design Patterns with Derek Banas. Some he tries to build (videos below), some he gets stuck with, but the topic has kept him excited for … Continue reading Java Design Patterns
It’s been a year
Today it has been exactly one year since we chose homeschooling and moved to Antwerp from Amsterdam, where homeschooling was not a legal option. It feels good to see Simon … Continue reading It’s been a year
AngularJS Filters
I thought we could limit ourselves to just two or three filters but Simon wanted to make videos about all the filters he learned, so here you go. The upper … Continue reading AngularJS Filters
XML in Eclipse
Many tears today around Eclipse IDE and trying to build a webpage in XML. Several times the Eclipse version Simon downloaded was incorrect and he started anew. It was like … Continue reading XML in Eclipse
Console Application in Java
Simon was training to build console applications with Derek Banas’ tutorial on design patterns. At the end of the third video, Simon says yes to my question if the console app … Continue reading Console Application in Java
Dutch grammar
Simon’s passion is coding, but he does other things, too. Things like Dutch, because – in case you haven’t noticed – his native language is Dutch. I usually don’t film … Continue reading Dutch grammar
Coffee?
Simon is giving a short tutorial about Coffeescript, a JavaScript preprocessor, and explaining why it’s so popular:
AngularJS in Espresso
Simon downloaded Espresso coding editor yesterday and used it to write AngularJS (a JavaScript framework about which Simon said that it was “a lot of fun” and “not intimidating”). Here … Continue reading AngularJS in Espresso
Back to circuits
Yesterday Simon asked me to buy new electronics software he found on the internet. It’s a realtime circuit simulator and editor called iCircuit. Simon has already built several circuits in … Continue reading Back to circuits
jQuery as an alternative to CSS
Simon has tried using jQuery instead of CSS to style a couple of webpages. The code comes from a Derek Banas tutorial. These buttons have quite amusing effects:
Sound Visialization
Simon has followed another batch of wonderfully enriching tutorials by Daniel Shiffman on p5.js, this time all about sound, and made these sound visualisations. The first one is based on … Continue reading Sound Visialization
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