PHP
Simon has yet a new craze: PHP. Here he explains what this language is about. This video is made yesterday, on the first day he started learning about PHP: The … Continue reading PHP
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.
Webcam
With this simple JavaScript code you can make a webcam!
Sums of consecutive integers
It’s been great watching Simon turn a word problem into an equation today. He was busy with “Sums of consecutive integers” (Practice finding the nth number in a sequence of … Continue reading Sums of consecutive integers
Doesn’t Work
Written a lot of code today. Unfortunately, a project from LearnWebCode didn’t work out with the new text editor, Sublime Text: I The info about the animals didn’t appear on the … Continue reading Doesn’t Work
Progress Documented
I wouldn’t publish this video if it wasn’t for one observation: this electricity project would have taken two hours just a few months ago. Now Simon assembles things like this … Continue reading Progress Documented
Some pajama music
Every evening Simon practices a little piano, whatever he has been working on with his piano teacher whom he attends twice a week.
Focus on the process
In this video Simon explains the method of querySelectorAll in JavaScript. He used it for a SVG challenge from LearnWebCode. Unfortunately, after several hours of work, when he was nearly there, the … Continue reading Focus on the process
Animation with Khan Academy
Simon has been trying different courses in JacaScript on Khan Academy, making some fun animations as part of tasks:
You also need the sin and the cos for crazy multiple sliders
Some other things Simon programmed this week were: A programming webpage in html Crazy multiple cursors in JavaScript Even crazier multiple sliders in JavaScript Here the multiple sliders are programmed … Continue reading You also need the sin and the cos for crazy multiple sliders
Making a webpage
This was one of the LearnWebCode challenges Simon did this week. It involved using Handlebars (a tool for JavaScript) to create a webpage about pets. Simon programmed the webpage on his RaspberryPi. … Continue reading Making a webpage
Favorite coding tutorials
In this video (filmed last week) Simon gives a brief overview of his currently favorite coding tutorials: He tried to make several of the projects/ challenges from these tutorials in … Continue reading Favorite coding tutorials
Algebra Visualization
Equations have definitely become our friends now. Simon got really creative during his math lesson and came up with an “Algebra Visualization Kit” – creating an abstract representation of an … Continue reading Algebra Visualization
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