Coding Train
Yesterday Simon got a parcel from the US: Simon’s hero, NYU professor Daniel Shiffman sent him a beautiful gift – a Coding Train shirt! Coding Train is Daniel Shiffman’s channel … Continue reading Coding Train
Category: Notes on everyday life
At MuHKA
Visited the reopened museum of contemporary art in Antwerpen MuHKA this afternoon. Simon enjoyed a few graphical pieces, especially when allowed to take photos of them with my mobile. Three … Continue reading At MuHKA
Old men from the 19th century
Almost every evening, before going to bed, we are reading books and Simon mostly prefers math adventures. Russian author Vladimir Levshin (1904-1984) published several books about geometry, algebra and math history, … Continue reading Old men from the 19th century
Looking for math everywhere
Funny how, even when training some pretty straightforward (and boring) arithmetic or Dutch reading, Simon tries to introduce more complex notions like here, the floor, ceiling and round functions while … Continue reading Looking for math everywhere
For Mom’s birthday
For my birthday, Simon made me some Fireworks: He made them look even better the following day, by adding trails: The code is Simon’s translation into Lua (the language of … Continue reading For Mom’s birthday
Spacious living
At an open air swimming pool: And just pondering about today’s projects in the morning:
On Social Development
Last night Simon had this social experience like never before: for the first time in his life, he followed a long (nearly 3 hrs) live programming session and actively participated … Continue reading On Social Development
2048
We had a great Sunday visiting friends in The Netherlands whose kids resemble Simon in many ways. Simon made his signature bubble solution: and learned about ray tracing in Java: … Continue reading 2048
Nearest Neighbour Coding Challenge. Euclidean Distance.
The notes above are from a couple days ago when Simon was trying to explain to me, where the formula for calculating similarity s = 1/1+c comes from. He linked it … Continue reading Nearest Neighbour Coding Challenge. Euclidean Distance.
Digging deep
During math lesson today, Simon’s teacher Sven pointed out that Simon seems to be looking at math problems with programmer’s eyes. Once he is presented with a new problem (in … Continue reading Digging deep
Geeks out of the box 