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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.

By Geeks out of the Box January 10, 2017

New Agario Project

This is the link to Simon’s new Agario game he programmed today on Openprocessing.org

By Geeks out of the Box January 9, 2017January 12, 2017

Perlin Noise Flow Field Coding Challenge

I think this is probably the most beautiful coding challenge Simon has completed so far. It’s based on a Perlin noise coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman where you’re asked to create a … Continue reading Perlin Noise Flow Field Coding Challenge

By Geeks out of the Box January 4, 2017

Solar System Generator Coding Challenge

Simon got quite far in the Solar System Generator Coding Challenge by Daniel Shiffman. He got stuck when he was supposed to make the Sun, the planets and their moons … Continue reading Solar System Generator Coding Challenge

By Geeks out of the Box January 2, 2017January 4, 2017

Regular expressions (post written by Simon)

A regular expression is a sequence of characters that defines a search pattern. I’ve made some videos about them:

By Geeks out of the Box January 2, 2017January 4, 2017

Vectors in Processing

Here is Simon in full glory on the first day of the new year: And here is what he does: study how vectors work in Processing (Java) and explain that … Continue reading Vectors in Processing

By Geeks out of the Box January 2, 2017January 4, 2017

A la Jan Wolkers

Simon’s “painting” in Processing that he named Output.png, resembling a painting by the Dutch writer and artist Jan Wolkers.

By Geeks out of the Box December 28, 2016

Bash

Simon’s first sketch in Bash.

By Geeks out of the Box December 28, 2016December 28, 2016

Simon on Christmas Eve

Simon explains how to correct errors in the JavaScript console (available in any modern web browser):

By Geeks out of the Box December 28, 2016December 28, 2016

Diffusion poster

By Geeks out of the Box December 28, 2016December 28, 2016

Mad Libs Generator Coding Challenge

Simon has completed Daniel Shiffman’s Mad Libs Generator Coding Challenge – a fun word game where one fills in a google form and the words filled in are then used … Continue reading Mad Libs Generator Coding Challenge

By Geeks out of the Box December 28, 2016January 4, 2017

Wolfram in RaspberryPi

Simon tried out a new language Wolfram on his RaspberryPi. Wolfram is a programming language that can be used to program 3D print sketches. “With different functions and constants you … Continue reading Wolfram in RaspberryPi

By Geeks out of the Box December 28, 2016December 28, 2016

Atom.io

Simon has found a new text editor he really likes: Atom.io He says he likes it because of its special searcher function, which can use regex (regular expressions). A regular … Continue reading Atom.io