a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Thanks to the lock-down, Simon’s got new friends. For a little over a month now, he has been part of exciting daily discussions, challenging coding sessions and just playing together … Continue reading New Friends. New Horizons.
Simon created a string simulation or a simulation of a traveling wave, something he used to experiment with using a slinky. Pressing the F key flattens the wave, the T … Continue reading Sound Wave Simulation
Simon has completed the course A New Kind of Science with Stephen Wolfram and the World Science Scholars program. Which doesn’t mean he is done with digging deep into Wolfram’s … Continue reading Live Session with Stephen Wolfram and the Wolfram Demo Project, World Science Scholars.
Simon loves the Maths Is Fun website and has borrowed a couple of ideas for cool games from there. He wrote the code completely on his own, from scratch. Below … Continue reading Simon’s Math Games in p5.js
This one’s back from mid-October, forgot to post here. Simon created a random number generator that generates a frequency, and then picks it back up. Then, it calculates the error … Continue reading Simon’s Random Number Generator
While in Southern France, Simon really enjoyed solving this puzzle (he originally saw in a Brilliant.org vid). He was so happy with his solution he kept drawing it out on … Continue reading Simon having fun solving math puzzles on Twitter.
This is Simon’s introductory video for the World Science Scholars program (initiative of The World Science Festival). In May this year, Simon has been chosen as one of the 30 … Continue reading Simon introducing himself for the World Science Scholars program
Here we are, on the day of my 40th birthday, while recording a lesson of drawing with turtle in Python. It was meant to be my birthday present, a beginner-friendly … Continue reading Drawing with Turtle
Simon writes: I’ve built a giant project; a website / community project / platform for making algorithms! I’ve built in this video Bubble Sort, Selection Sort, Insertion Sort, Mergesort, Quicksort, … Continue reading Simon’s new “giant project”: Sorting Visualizations
Just a funny piece from a member-only Coding Train session 😉
This is Simon’s version of Daniel Shiffman’s 2D Casting code, made on Wednesday last week right after the live session. Link to the live session including the coding challenge. Code … Continue reading Simon’s Community Contribution: Variation of 2D Casting Coding Challenge in p5.js
Simon is always extremely active in the discussions about the current projects made by/ lectures given by NYU’s Asdociate Professor Daniel Shiffman during his live sessions on the Coding Train … Continue reading More examples of Simon’s chat contributions on math and coding
Geeks out of the box 