a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
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
Two diplomas lie in front of me, both issued in Simon’s name last week. The first diploma is in Dutch, called Getuigschrift van basisonderwijs (Elementary Education Certificate) from the Flemish … Continue reading It’s time to face the truth: There is no book
Cubing craze has reached a whole new level as Simon’s speed cube shop order is stuck at the customs in Brussels and his last old speed cube is broken. What … Continue reading Rubik’s Cube Simulator and More
Simon’s new craze is esolangs (esoteric programming languages), programming languages designed to be “weird”. For example, there are esolangs designed to be minimalistic (like brainf*** (yes, that is an actual … Continue reading Esolangs
Simon has challenged himself to make a game in 1 hour. That worked. Then he made another game in just 45 minutes. He recorded this latest challenge so you can … Continue reading Making a Game in 45 Minutes. Code Along!
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! 🍿
Neva has recorded her first video explaining how she coded a project, a mini-tutorial. It’s an example of a visualization using classes and arrays in JS. You can also access … Continue reading Neva’s first coding tut
Simon has been spending most of his time practicing Unity with the wonderful set of game dev tutorials by Sebastian Lague. The short compilation below highlights three initial projects he … Continue reading Two more steps forward in Unity land
Everyone at our household have always had aversion to violent computer games. When we speak of games, we mainly speak of immersive environments, educational games and, since Simon took his … Continue reading First Steps in Unity 🎱
Simon has been hiding so-called “easter eggs” on his Discord server, i.e. hidden surprises that can be anything ranging from a character code to a math puzzle, for his friends … Continue reading What Geeks Do for Easter Egg Hunt 🥚
Geeks out of the box 