a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has been greatly inspired by Sebastian Lague’s new video on how computers work, it seems to have sparked a whole new wave of enthusiasm about logic gates and logic … Continue reading Logic Gates. Simon has programmed his own Digital Logic Simulator.
Also in October, Simon built a game bot that can play math games with him. At the moment, the bot only plays the higher-lower game, but will learn to play … Continue reading Simon’s Game Bot
As a suggestion on a Coding Train thread on GitHub in which Daniel Sghiffman was asking for ideas on how to keep poll votes after restarting the server, Simon has … Continue reading A super-simple database
One more project from back in July. Inspired by one of his favorite resources Coolors.co, Simon created a beautiful color palette generator in p5.JS that builds off of a theme … Continue reading A Color Palette Generator in p5.JS
Something else I forgot to post from back in July: Simon explaining linear smoothing and exponential smoothing. You can play with Simon’s smoothing sketch at https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/ABdeWZVvs The white circle is … Continue reading Smoothing
After months is self-isolation, we spent the whole month of August away from home, first at our old home in Amsterdam, where we had some urgent personal matters to arrange, … Continue reading Amsterdam Friends and Color Jump
In July, Simon truly dove into server side programming, creating several more bots we’ve forgotten to blog about. He is now managing a whole bot playground on Discord where his … Continue reading Some more bots
Simon has set his first steps towards creating a 3D renderer. What’s a 3D renderer? 3D rendering is a process of converting 3D models into 2D images on a computer. … Continue reading Ray Marching
Simon has created this sound monitor to help him keep track of the sounds around him if he has his headset on. You can hear the surrounding sounds much better … Continue reading A Sound Monitor
Simon has had hours of fun with Test Tube Games, a science games portal featuring interactive explanations and dynamic puzzles on Chemistry and Physics. He has created two simulations based … Continue reading Test Tube Games
Simon is working on a clone of Tchisla, an absorbing number puzzle app from the (Russian!!) creators of Euclidea. The aim is to represent numbers as arithmetical expressions using only … Continue reading Tchisla Clone
Simon has built a question bot that will collect questions on The Coding Train Discord so that Daniel Shiffman can answer them during the following live session. This is something … Continue reading Question Bot
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