a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has been scrutinizing yet another platform, Particle (producing the Electron, Photon and Core microcomputers https://docs.particle.io/guide/getting-started/intro/photon/ ) and wrote this code online at https://build.particle.io/build/new Unfortunately, he doesn’t have any of their devices to … Continue reading Today’s self written code
On Thursday and Friday Simon started a new course on Code Academy, this time in Java Script! The first tasks have been quite interesting. I especially likes the one about moon … Continue reading Code Academy JavaScript Courses
Over the past week Simon has made some more progress in his Python courses. By now he has completed 5 courses. The level of the last few lessons is quite … Continue reading Code Academy Python Courses (Continued)
Yesterday at Simon’s first session by the Digisnacks, a course offered by the Antwerp University’s computer science faculty. The session was about computer history, what’s inside the computer and binary language.
Simon was trying to program his Arduino board to use a magnetic switch to turn an LED on and off, but the code didn’t work. The LED was burning no … Continue reading Sometimes it just doesn’t work
Simon has been attending this weekly Scratch club CodeFever since the end of September. At the beginning they suggested placing him in the oldest group, for 12 to 15 year olds, but after … Continue reading CodeFever
Today we had a much busier day as we had to bike for two hours to get Simon to his Scratch programming class. That said, Code Academy still largely ruled … Continue reading Code Academy Python Courses, Day 2.
Tuesday morning I briefly showed Code Academy’s website to Simon: “Look, you can learn to code in Python right here. And here’s a list of other coding languages”, – I … Continue reading Code Academy Python Courses
To write a Python project in Arduino Simon had to calculate how many milliseconds there are in one day, one month and one year. Here he explains how he did … Continue reading Simon translates code from Python to Arduino
Simon is exercising in Python. He tried to replicate the Blink LED project from an online Raspberry Pi tutorial here:
Simon has discovered yet another awesome resource: SparkFun, comprising a variety of projects electronics and coding based on Arduino, Intel Edison, Raspberry Pi and more. https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials In this video Simon explains … Continue reading Physics with SparkFun
Geeks out of the box 