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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 28, 2016December 28, 2016

Atom.io

Simon has found a new text editor he really likes: Atom.io He says he likes it because of its special searcher function, which can use regex (regular expressions). A regular … Continue reading Atom.io

Categories: Coding, JavaScriptTags: Atom.io, Coding, JavaScript, logic gates, regex, regular expressions, text editor
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 28, 2016December 28, 2016

Word Interactor and Word Counter

The JavaScript Word Interactor changes word details (colour, background colour, text). The Word Counter counts how often a word appears in a text. Simon learned about Word Interactor and Word … Continue reading Word Interactor and Word Counter

Categories: Coding, JavaScriptTags: Coding, JavaScript, Sentiment Analysis, Word Counter, Word Interactor
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 28, 2016January 4, 2017

Trying MAMP and WordPress

It’s been really difficult to install WordPress and try to work with it in local host. Only on day three (several hours trying to get everything to work) we managed … Continue reading Trying MAMP and WordPress

Categories: CodingTags: local host, MAMP, PHP, web development, WordPress
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 28, 2016December 28, 2016

Learning Angular 

         

Categories: Coding, JavaScriptTags: Angular, Coding, JavaScript
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 28, 2016December 28, 2016

Conversion table

Categories: Coding, UncategorizedTags: Coding, webpages
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 23, 2016

Spacecraft

Simon didn’t finish this coding challenge. He went as far as building a spaceship and controlling it. He also made it reappear after it hit the edges. He got stuck with … Continue reading Spacecraft

Categories: Coding, JavaScript, SpaceTags: Coding, JavaScript, P5
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 23, 2016December 23, 2016

Sublime Text to Arduino

Simon wrote a sketch in Sublime Text (a text editor) and uploaded it on to his Arduino. It didn’t work at first but he found the bug.      

Categories: Arduino, Coding, ElectronicsTags: Arduino, Electronics, Sublime Text
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 22, 2016December 23, 2016

Sound Synthesis in JavaScript

Familiar synth noises at our home again! This time synthesized in JavaScript. Simon has been following Daniel Shiffman’s Sound Tutorials and studied the codes to create oscillators and ADSR Envelope. … Continue reading Sound Synthesis in JavaScript

Categories: Coding, JavaScript, Milestones, Music, PhysicsTags: ADSR, JavaScript, P5, soundwave, synth
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 22, 2016December 23, 2016

Spherical Geometry coding challenge

Today Simon tried the Spherical Geometry coding challenge from Daniel Shiffman’s awesome channel. It involved programming a globe in Processing (using Java), using trigonometrical equations with longitudes and latitudes. Here Simon … Continue reading Spherical Geometry coding challenge

Categories: Coding, Geometry JoysTags: Java, Processing, sin cos tan, trigonometry
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 21, 2016December 21, 2016

3D Primitives

A beautiful and simple coding project in JavaScript – 3D objects rotating in space. In P5.            

Categories: Coding, JavaScriptTags: 3D shapes, Coding, JavaScript, P5
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 20, 2016

New Text Editors

Simon has been studying very independently lately, experimenting with downloading new text editors and trying them out with various projects/ challenges. This is not always successful and there is frustration … Continue reading New Text Editors

Categories: Coding, MilestonesTags: shortcuts, Sublime Text, text editors
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 20, 2016December 20, 2016

PHP

Simon has yet a new craze: PHP. Here he explains what this language is about. This video is made yesterday, on the first day he started learning about PHP: The … Continue reading PHP

Categories: Coding, html, Milestones, PHPTags: browser, html, PHP, text editors, web development, webpages

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