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During the vacation, Simon worked on several programming projects playing with language and grammar, from Daniel Shiffman’s Programming from A to Z course at New York University. Those included creating a new … Continue reading Analysis and generation of text-based data. What else to do on vacation?
A few more pics from the coding everywhere series: Here Simon made a game especially for his sister: Among the remaining favorites were reading (see an earlier post), swimming (and … Continue reading Coding everywhere, swimming and popping giant balloons
Homeschooling reversed. Every day during our vacation, Simon was pushing me through a crash course in JavaScript. He had lessons meticulously planned way ahead, with all the examples, and insisted … Continue reading Homeschooling reversed
For his 8th birthday, Simon made a present for himself in Node.js and spoke about his new year’s resolutions that mainly involve live streaming: Today, two days later, we actually … Continue reading Simon turned 8!
Simon hadn’t been writing in Python for months but seems to be quite fluent still, here using the Python space in Processing for the first time:
Simon comparing possibilities to create 4D noise in different computer languages:
This project got strangled somewhere along the way, but Simon got quite far with the interface. Hopefully, he will continue some day. he was thinking of calling the editor something … Continue reading Simon making his own text editor with Ace.js and Firebase
This is one Simon’s most beautiful projects recently! Simon saw the idea to link the webcam image to the boids of a flocking system in a video by Daniel Shiffman, … Continue reading Flocking System Painting with Pixels
Simon has created animations visualizing sound waves (Triangle, Sawtooth, Square and Sine waves) in Processing (Java), using wave functions. These are the functions he used for the Sawtooth, Square and … Continue reading Sound Wave Maths in Processing
Simon built a beautiful interactive circle intersection program in Processing, in which the circles detect intersection and change colors (according to Perlin Noise) once it occurs. The player can control … Continue reading Circle Intersection with Perlin Noise in Processing (Interactive)
Magformers (magnetic building sets involving maths) used to be Simon’s greatest passion when he was six (just a year ago!) and this week he has been travelling in time to … Continue reading Automatic Magformers Table
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