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During the vacation, Simon worked on several programming projects playing with language and grammar, from Daniel Shiffman’s Programming from A to Z course at New York University. Those included creating a new … Continue reading Analysis and generation of text-based data. What else to do on vacation?
Homeschooling reversed. Every day during our vacation, Simon was pushing me through a crash course in JavaScript. He had lessons meticulously planned way ahead, with all the examples, and insisted … Continue reading Homeschooling reversed
Simon comparing possibilities to create 4D noise in different computer languages:
This project got strangled somewhere along the way, but Simon got quite far with the interface. Hopefully, he will continue some day. he was thinking of calling the editor something … Continue reading Simon making his own text editor with Ace.js and Firebase
Magformers (magnetic building sets involving maths) used to be Simon’s greatest passion when he was six (just a year ago!) and this week he has been travelling in time to … Continue reading Automatic Magformers Table
Simon’s new series of web development tutorials: two new playlists How to make a Calendar and How to make Buttons:
Simon has been studying various 2D collisions (via the p5.collide2D library and paulbourke.net), especially the Circle-Rectangle Intersection (Collision). He was so busy with this problem that he even put it down in chalk … Continue reading Circle-Rectangle Intersection (Collision)
Simon was reading about math functions on Wikipedia and came up with an idea to create an interactive math functions editor in JavaScript that would visualize (i.e. show the graphs … Continue reading Interactive Math Functions
Simon has recorded his first set of web development tutorials, about how to create a slideshow. The original code comes from the w3schools.com website. Simon got stuck … Continue reading Simon’s first set of Web Development How To’s: How to make a slideshow
Simon normally uses the old JavaScript syntax but has been looking into the new ES6. Below are Simon’s notes on the new syntax in JavaScript called ES6 for cleaner more … Continue reading ES6, the new syntax
Simon spent hours studying the D3 library on Sunday, it’s a very popular JavaScript library using SVG images he had never tried before. He also found it great how the … Continue reading Simon trying out the D3 library
Simon shows a project he built using the p5.collide.2D library – he combined two codes from GitHub to make a program looking for intersection points between two lines in JavaScript:
Geeks out of the box 