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We have purchased something Simon wanted to have for months already: new software to construct the craziest 3D-supershapes! The software is pretty old, developed by Australian programmer Paul Bourke long before … Continue reading Crazy Supershapes
A superellipse This was the formula (Simon doesn’t fully understand it yet but loves playing with it):
Simon tried Firebase today, Google’s mobile platform assisting in app development. One of its features is the Realtime Database and Simon learned about it from his favourite online “teacher”, Daniel … Continue reading Saving p5.js Drawings to Firebase
“Mommy, I want to get my hands dirty now! Cause I’ve got power!” Simon told me (literally and in English) on Thursday evening after he downloaded Git on his laptop. … Continue reading Git and GitHub
Simon did another coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman today, this time a short one called Phyllotaxis. You might be thinking, what in heaven’s name is Phyllotaxis? As it turned out, … Continue reading Where Botany meets Math and What is Cartesian vs Polar?
Simon compiled a table of borders used in CSS:
Simon loves Daniel Shiffman. Today he programmed a Video Photobooth on his laptop, following Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial number 10.2. The tutorial teaches saving a history of images from live camera … Continue reading Video Photobooth
Having completed Code Academy’s Learn SASS course last night (see previous blog post), Simon independently downloaded SASS on his new laptop this morning and built a website in his text … Continue reading Applying the sassy skills
Simon completed Code Academy’s Learn SASS course in just one evening last night! SASS is part of CSS. This morning he applied the skills he acquired in the course to … Continue reading Sassy! And sassy English, too!
Simon had a lot fun following Daniel Shiffman’s Graphing Perlin Noise tutorial. In the video’s below he explains some of the basic concepts he learned. :
This weekend Simon experimented with how JavaScript can change HTML attributes (something he earned from w3schools):
Simon followed a couple of LearnWebCode tutuorials to complete his first website last week. It took him several hours to finish:
Geeks out of the box 