Arguments Array
Yesterday Simon spent his evening playing with arguments array as taught in Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial. He reenacted the tutorial from memory and explained it to me in detail. My phone’s … Continue reading Arguments Array
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.
jQuery Mobile Website
Simon made a mobile website using jQuery Mobile (a pack of CSS and JavaScript) with w3schools.com The website included a home page, e-mail, a phonebook and a calendar (a bit … Continue reading jQuery Mobile Website
Dissolving
Simon dissolving salts and watching ions form during his monthly chemistry workshop with John Maas
Sentiment Analysis Coding Challenge
This was a very interesting coding challenge to do: imagining we were AI’s unable to grasp the sentiment of the content we tried to analyse several simple texts with a Sentiment … Continue reading Sentiment Analysis Coding Challenge
Susy, a SASS framework
Simon has spent nearly the whole day trying to build a website following a Derek Banas tutorial on Susy, a SASS framework. He first built the website in Windows 10, … Continue reading Susy, a SASS framework
CSS Selectors
A little journey into the world of CSS selectrors using the Specificity Calculator, a visual way to understand CSS specificity.
I think I’m writing in a fixed width font
Simon was doing sentence analysis (something that he quite likes), but this time it involved writing (and he hates physical writing). Even though he has been writing since age 3 and … Continue reading I think I’m writing in a fixed width font
The Threejs Library
Simon keeps finding awesome libraries online, this weekend he came up with this gem of 3D JavaScript: https://threejs.org There are masses of examples, this one was our favourite. Can’t wait until … Continue reading The Threejs Library
Pathfinding Algorithm
Simon completed Daniel Shiffman’s Pathfinding Algorithm Coding Challenge (parts 1-3) in two days and was so mesmerised by the result that he just couldn’t stop refreshing his localhost preview:
Random Walker Coding Challenge
Simon completed this coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman fairly quickly: Simon also learned about the term Lévy flight, in math essentially the same as a “random walk” within continuous space or … Continue reading Random Walker Coding Challenge
Simon’s first Android app
Simon built his first Android app (in Java) this weekend. Now every time I turn my phone on I see this: The code comes from Processing for Android > Getting … Continue reading Simon’s first Android app
Simon thinking aloud
“Mommy, it’s amazing how many styling CSS buttons there are!!” When Simon walks outside, often running along as I bike, you’ll most probably hear him talk passionately, about programming.
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