a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
We continue stacking Rubik themed obsessions. Let’s start with Rubik’s Race, a cool puzzle somewhat resembling the 15 puzzle. The players get a random 3×3 pattern and compete in matching … Continue reading Cubing Craze Highlights
Cubing craze has reached a whole new level as Simon’s speed cube shop order is stuck at the customs in Brussels and his last old speed cube is broken. What … Continue reading Rubik’s Cube Simulator and More
Simon has been working on a hole load of projects together with his friend Abhay. Many remain unfinished as they both enjoy tinkering with the algorithms more than giving that … Continue reading New Colabs: Proximity Game, Uno and Chess
This year has been a year of revelations in terms of how we visually perceive the world and whether those new nuggets of knowledge can be reflected in digital art. … Continue reading Visual Perception Hacks
Simon’s new craze is esolangs (esoteric programming languages), programming languages designed to be “weird”. For example, there are esolangs designed to be minimalistic (like brainf*** (yes, that is an actual … Continue reading Esolangs
Simon has challenged himself to make a game in 1 hour. That worked. Then he made another game in just 45 minutes. He recorded this latest challenge so you can … Continue reading Making a Game in 45 Minutes. Code Along!
https://snack.expo.io/ is a website to make small fun apps (called “snacks”) with React Native. What is React Native, you may ask. It’s something Simon and Neva have been crazy about … Continue reading Snacks! 🍿
As someone said in the comments on Simon’s YouTube channel, “Damn, Simons got his big game dev pants on now jumping into Unity!! Have fun 😁” Below are just a … Continue reading Cube Mission and Crash Test in Unity. PICO-8.
I’ve always noticed how Simon learns in a spiral, touching an area of interest and then seemingly abandoning it only to circle back at a higher level. This month, Rubik’s … Continue reading Cubin’s in the Air
Simon has returned to his beloved Cellular Automata theme and created this nice sequence comprising all the 256 elementary rules. You can access his code at https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/gECh5tVwa Simon explains: Every … Continue reading All 256 Elementary Cellular Automata
Neva has recorded her first video explaining how she coded a project, a mini-tutorial. It’s an example of a visualization using classes and arrays in JS. You can also access … Continue reading Neva’s first coding tut
I come back from the hummus take-away and hear Neva say: Mom, we’ve discovered something! We’ve discovered what the first number above zero which is less than the sum of … Continue reading Gorgeous Numbers
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