a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
In the short video below, Simon explains MathVizz, an equation visualization tool he has just made together with his friends Abhay and Sarvagya. Simon was responsible for the functionality and … Continue reading MathVizz, an equation visualization tool
Our summer vacation in Southern France is over but our daily life continues to radiate freedom to learn and explore at our own pace. Swimming was one of those things … Continue reading Free to Swim
Simon and Abhay have just produced their second mobile app, this time a game of Connect 4! Simon: So I called with my friend Abhay and didn’t know what to … Continue reading Simon and Abhay’s Second App
Processing.org is the to-go place for all autodidacts to learn creative coding and this weekend it is celebrating its 20th birthday Simon and his friends Abhay and Sarvagya have made … Continue reading Celebrating Processing
It was Simon’s birthday yesterday and as this year is all about cubing, yesterday was no exception. It has sort of become a tradition to celebrate his birthday at our … Continue reading I want a Rubik’s Cube Cake for my birthday!
They worked on this together for a week and voila, here is their first real app, a calculator with beautiful color design, which they called “Colorful Calculator”. They also came … Continue reading The kids made their first app: Colorful Calculator
Simon was so desperate to get his new set of speed cubes that he made another cube simulation in JavaScript, this time the funny cube called Square-1 that can shape-shift. … Continue reading Square-1 Simulation and New Cubes
My learning to make multiplayer games consists of decreasingly failed attempts which eventually become successful attempts! One more obsession these days is the Paper.io game, a strategic game aiming at … Continue reading Entering the Multiplayer Game Dev Zone
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! 🍿
It never seizes to mesmerize me how Simon sees math. So many times has he solved math problems or proved theorems relying on visual, geometric illustrations instead of bluntly applying … Continue reading Simon Shares his Derivatives Tricks: Visualizing Calculus
Simon and his wonderful friend Abhay built a text to speech bot, who now joins their almost daily meetups: Earlier in March, Simon and Abhay also built a different bot … Continue reading More bots
After a good friend from Amsterdam invited us to take part in his self-made quiz show, this got Simon really excited about Kahoot.com and all the possibilities it has to … Continue reading Quiz Jazz
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