a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
This is a project about pattern. “Some people look for patterns. We call those people mathematicians”, Matt Parker said in a Numberphile video. I think I have never heard a … Continue reading Patterns. Hilbert Curve in Processing.
Simon built this game inspired by a Numberphile video (he had never seen or played the actual puzzle before, but I have as a kid). The code is Simon’s own, … Continue reading 15s Puzzle in Processing
Simon has become a full-blown Numberphile fan over the past couple of days. He had already watched two Matt Parker videos before, but it’s this week that he got seriously … Continue reading The Square-Sum Problem
Simon’s latest live stream on Thursday, January 11 was a blast! For the first time in his programming career he actually had quite a few viewers – largely thanks to … Continue reading Live Stream #6. (Mostly) Chapter 2 of Living Code: Forces.
Studying directional light and texture in p5.js produced some fun results, especially when the webcam was involved. Based on tutorials by Daniel Shiffman.
Simon wrote this JavaScript code for Langton’s Ant (a type of Cellular Automaton) himself, inspired by Daniel Shiffman’s description/version in Processing (Java) during the Coding Train live stream on January … Continue reading Langton’s Ant in p5.js
Simon built this Tetris game in one day on Wednesday. He didn’t use any libraries. The code largely comes from a Meth Meth Method video tutorial, but Simon made it … Continue reading Tetris Game in JavaScript
This magical time of the year, Simon’s craziest, most daring dreams come true! First, his guru from the New York University Daniel Shiffman sends Simon his book and the words … Continue reading Magic around New Year’s Eve
Simon has authored a comprehensive post about For-Loops (in JavaScript ES5 and ES6) in the CodePen blog, nice for anyone learning about loops syntax: https://codepen.io/simontiger/post/for-loops Simon’s update: I now also … Continue reading Simon writes CodePen blog on for-loops
Simon came up with this Fibonacci function while taking a walk downtown: f(0) = 0 f(1) = 1 f(n) = f(n-1)+f(n-2) When we got home, he used the function to … Continue reading Simon’s Fibonacci function and Fibonacci counter in p5.js
The math behind this project comes from the amazing math channel 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYmyhnaaek
Inspired by a Meth Meth Method Tetris video, Simon has come back to his Tetris project in Processing, something he started a long while ago and never finished. At the … Continue reading Tetris in Processing continued
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