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We were also lucky to have friends with a telescope over at Simon’s grandma’s summer house in Friesland last weekend and saw the Moon a little closer than as shown … Continue reading Observing the Red Moon during the eclipse last Friday night
https://youtu.be/dYBZXFW4bsg Simon is working on a project that will involve constructing the Archimedean solids from paper pieces that he programs in Processing (Java) and prints out. In the previous video, … Continue reading Simon’s Archimedean Solids Project
Simon says: “In this live session, I am continuing Chapter 6 of my “Living Code” Course. This is the 4th live stream that I’m attempting to do this”. It was … Continue reading Live Stream #18. Living Code, Chapter 6: Particle Systems. 99 Balls Game.
On the way to London: Simon watching the Coding Train on the train… And giving his sis an English lesson On the way back: doing maths under the table
It’s my birthday today and Simon has calculated my age in bases 2-12, 16 and 20! In the video, he explains what my color is in hexadecimal (base 16), how … Continue reading Mom is 100111! And she is 33! And 124!
Simon’s live stream yesterday had several supportive viewers. Simon started making a game of Twins in Processing (Java) and went on with his JavaScript course Living Code, that is based … Continue reading Live Stream #16: Twins Game in Processing and Chapter 6 of Living Code.
Simon shows his Times Tables Visualization in Processing (Java) and talks about how it’s connected to Mandelbrot Set. See the code with the README on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/times_tables View the full animation … Continue reading Simon’s Times Tables Visualization
Simon’s latest Live Stream about Chapter 6 of his “Living Code” Course (particle systems!), loosely based on Daniel Shiffman’s Nature of Code. “I’m also going to live stream a surprise … Continue reading Live Stream #15. Chapter 6 of Living Code: Particle Systems
In this live session, Simon continue my 15s puzzle redo live session (“yet again, but I swear this is going to be the last time I do this!” Simon said). … Continue reading Live Stream #14. 15’s Puzzle Redo continued.
Simon has developed his version of the Magic Cards, this time in Base 3. He invented this system completely on his own and actually created a program in Processing … Continue reading Magic Cards in Base 3!
In this live session, Simon works a little on his 15s puzzle redo that he started in his previous live session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixkLFYcb0T0 and programs a math/logic puzzle, checking whether the … Continue reading Liva Stream #13. Math Puzzle: Logic.
Simon has crafted a nice game today, inspired by a video in which mathematician Katie Steckles shows several mathematical games. Simon wasn’t sure what the game was called so he … Continue reading Reds and Greens
Geeks out of the box 