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– 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
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
“Mommy! Genetic algorithm is AI, ML and DL all at the same time! Scary information. It’s scary information for me,” Simon stares at me, a brand new Daniel Shiffman tutorial … Continue reading Genetic Algorithm
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 is so exciting! Simon has written his first Java code completely on his own! It’s an animation of the Archimedean spiral (well, we only found out later that it’s actually called … Continue reading Simon’s first own code: Archimedean spiral in Processing (Java).
On Friday Simon finished another beautiful Daniel Shiffman coding challenge called Mapping Earthquake Data. The purpose of this coding challenge was to visualize earthquake data from the USGS website (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/) by mapping … Continue reading Mapping Earthquake Data Coding Challenge
Simon completed the Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge by Daniel Shiffman! In this challenge, he created a sphere in Processing (Java) using spherical coordinates and triangle strips. Simon had already tried doing this … Continue reading Spherical Geometry Coding Challenge
Simon got seriously hooked on Matter.js, a a 2D JavaScript physics library that supports rigid body collisions and constraints. He started with Daniel Shiffman intro to Matter.js, downloaded it using GitBash … Continue reading Matter.js (Physics Library)
On Tuesday, Simon was following another tutorial by Derek Banas, this time on UML Class Diagrams, and thought it would be fun to draw the diagrams in a new app … Continue reading UML Class Diagrams
Simon has nearly completed the basic equations and inequalities course on Khan Academy. Every time his math teacher comes they solve a couple of inequalities from the course and what … Continue reading Inequalities Machine 2.0
Today it has been exactly one year since we chose homeschooling and moved to Antwerp from Amsterdam, where homeschooling was not a legal option. It feels good to see Simon … Continue reading It’s been a year
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