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.
Inspired by the formulas used by Daniel Shiffman to draw phyllotactic patterns, Simon decided to get back to his old favourite. In this rather long video Simon tries to use … Continue reading
Where Botany meets Math and What is Cartesian vs Polar?
Simon did another coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman today, this time a short one called Phyllotaxis. You might be thinking, what in heaven’s name is Phyllotaxis? As it turned out, … Continue reading Where Botany meets Math and What is Cartesian vs Polar?
Simon’s monthly Astronomy class
The monthly Astronomy class at the Urania observatory today was about telescopes and the history of observing the nightly skies:
Borders in CSS
Simon compiled a table of borders used in CSS:
Video Photobooth
Simon loves Daniel Shiffman. Today he programmed a Video Photobooth on his laptop, following Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial number 10.2. The tutorial teaches saving a history of images from live camera … Continue reading Video Photobooth
Applying the sassy skills
Having completed Code Academy’s Learn SASS course last night (see previous blog post), Simon independently downloaded SASS on his new laptop this morning and built a website in his text … Continue reading Applying the sassy skills
Sassy! And sassy English, too!
Simon completed Code Academy’s Learn SASS course in just one evening last night! SASS is part of CSS. This morning he applied the skills he acquired in the course to … Continue reading Sassy! And sassy English, too!
Graphing Perlin Noise
Simon had a lot fun following Daniel Shiffman’s Graphing Perlin Noise tutorial. In the video’s below he explains some of the basic concepts he learned. :
JavaScript can change HTML attributes
This weekend Simon experimented with how JavaScript can change HTML attributes (something he earned from w3schools):
First website
Simon followed a couple of LearnWebCode tutuorials to complete his first website last week. It took him several hours to finish:
CSS
Simon loves CSS and has been spending much of his time practicing it. According to him, HTML looks ugly without the CSS: CSS drop-downs
Geeks out of the box 