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Simon built another project of his own design. His program allows to draw intricate patterns that resemble Islamic tiling, the building block being a polygon of your choice. First, you … Continue reading Connections Project in Java (Simon’s own code)
Simon made this beautiful interactive Islamic star pattern from Daniel Shiffman’s one hour long coding challenge he devoted to the refugees. The coding challenge is based on this paper about … Continue reading Islamic Star Pattern
In this video Simon explains how a server works with multiple clients: He also used this knowledge on practice as he came back to the Shared Drawing Canvas Coding Challenge, a … Continue reading Node and Broadcasting messages between clients. Shared Canvas.
Simon loved Daniel Shiffman’s simulation of the Plinko game and added some extra features to Daniel’s code, like a button to make new chips appear. He also saw a … Continue reading Simon’s Plinko
“Just recycling some building blocks here”, I heard Simon say Monday. This is a screenshot of Simon’s Bubble Project – an animation he built by translating a Java code from … Continue reading Translating from Java to JavaScript. The Bubble Project
Simon continued translating from JavaScript to Java as he followed Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial on creating a mirror based on the brightness values of the pixels from a live video feed. The … Continue reading Translating from JavaScript to Java (Continued)
– Simon, where did you learn translating from JavaScript to Java? – From Dan, of course! I’ve compared the two formulas for converting from 2D to 1D. (The width stands for … Continue reading Translating from JavaScript to Java (Simon wrote this post)
Also among the interests of the past couple of days: the Breadth-first Search and the Depth-first Search: Both are algorithms for searching tree or graph data structures (think: mazes). The Breadth-first Search … Continue reading Recent fascinations
Simon has built this fun Atari game where a spaceship shoots at asteroids with laser and breaks them down into pieces. It was actually another coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman … Continue reading Asteroids Coding Challenge
What does Simon do when he is sick and free from having any lessons? Follow a course on probability theory and logarithms (which he watched four times), writing equations and … Continue reading Probabilities and Logarithms
Since he wrote his first own code last week, Simon has attempted to write a couple more. This morning he came up with a code for a calculator in the … Continue reading Simon’s next own code: Calculator
This particle system code Simon has written in Cloud9 originally comes from p5.js and makes a beautiful simulation of a waterfall:
Geeks out of the box 