Dutch grammar
Simon’s passion is coding, but he does other things, too. Things like Dutch, because – in case you haven’t noticed – his native language is Dutch. I usually don’t film … Continue reading Dutch grammar
Category: Milestones
Math vs Math
Yesterday Simon and I were doing some primary school math (Dutch 6th grade, Belgian 4th grade, on average two grades above Simon’s biological age). It’s something we regularly do to … Continue reading Math vs Math
Simon talking to me in English
Simon: You can use https if you want to get fancy. I: Do you want to get fancy, Simon? Simon: OBVIOUSLY NOT! *** Simon, in the car: Mommy, there is … Continue reading Simon talking to me in English
The Most Dangerous Place
Simon talking about the most dangerous place in the world:
Calculator in C#
Simon has been into learning about C# the last couple of days. Yesterday he built a calculator. He didn’t actually compose the code himself as one might think after watching … Continue reading Calculator in C#
Smart Rockets
Smart Rockets, a coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman. It involved creating a genetic algorithm from scratch and makingĀ “smart rockets” (based on a simulation by Jer Thorp). The rockets evolve the … Continue reading Smart Rockets
Snow
Back home from an adventurous trip to the Tirol Alps. Simon is excited to tell everyone about how our car got stuck deep in the snowy forest on the night … Continue reading Snow
Simon is on GitHub!
Yesterday Simon created an account on GitHub! He had followed a number of tutorials by both Daniel Shiffman and LearnWebCode to learn how to upload his projects on GitHub using … Continue reading Simon is on GitHub!
Arguments Array
Yesterday Simon spent his evening playing with arguments array as taught in Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial. He reenacted the tutorial from memory and explained it to me in detail. My phone’s … Continue reading Arguments Array
Sentiment Analysis Coding Challenge
This was a very interesting coding challenge to do: imagining we were AI’s unable to grasp the sentiment of the contentĀ we tried to analyse several simple texts with a Sentiment … Continue reading Sentiment Analysis Coding Challenge
I think I’m writing in a fixed width font
Simon wasĀ doing sentence analysis (something that he quite likes), but this time it involved writing (and he hates physical writing). Even though he has been writing since age 3 and … Continue reading I think I’m writing in a fixed width font
Simon’s first Android app
Simon built his first Android app (in Java) this weekend. Now every time I turn my phone on I see this: The code comes from Processing for Android > Getting … Continue reading Simon’s first Android app
Geeks out of the box 