a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
You can turn the card around by using the mouse if you open it in p5.js: Simon made this card during Daniel Shiffman’s Processing Telethon last night, joining other programmers … Continue reading Merry Xmas! Simon’s Xmas Card.
An update to Simon’s new project: a series of video tutorials on sorting algorithms! See the full playlist here. Finally, parts 6 and 7 of Simon’s exciting series of video … Continue reading More Sorting Algorithms!
Simon has started a huge new project: a series of video tutorials about sorting algorithms. In the videos, he codes on his RaspberryPi, but here is the link to the … Continue reading Simon creates a playlist with Sorting Algorithms tutorials in Python
Simon installed Processing on his RaspberryPi recently (using the terminal, which looked terribly sophisticated and scary as on Linux you’re forced to do everything through the terminal) and started preparing … Continue reading Processing on RaspberryPi
Yesterday Simon spent the whole day studying the concept of Cellular Automaton (CA), a discrete model of a system of “cell” objects used in physics, math and theoretical biology. He … Continue reading Cellular Automata in Arduino
Simon tried out a new language Wolfram on his RaspberryPi. Wolfram is a programming language that can be used to program 3D print sketches. “With different functions and constants you … Continue reading Wolfram in RaspberryPi
This was one of the LearnWebCode challenges Simon did this week. It involved using Handlebars (a tool for JavaScript) to create a webpage about pets. Simon programmed the webpage on his RaspberryPi. … Continue reading Making a webpage
Simon carried out a project on his new RaspberryPi today that allows to see his programming and problem solving level quite well. Luckily I was there on time with my … Continue reading What is Simon’s level in coding and problem solving?
When Simon got a new RaspberryPi 3 from Sinterklaas on Sunday joy quickly turned into drama as he discovered the old (and only) keyboard we had at home was outdated … Continue reading RaspberryPi work station
It was Simon’s idea to reimage the corrupted SD-card, he tried doing it himself the morning after the crash. He downloaded Noobs and Raspbian from RaspberryPi’s website but couldn’t go … Continue reading We fixed the PiTop! Can’t believe it worked!
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