a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has made his version of Daniel Shiffman’s Wikipedia Crawler, graphing the relatedness between Wikipedia articles. Play with it yourself online at: https://simon-tiger.github.io/wikipedia-crawler/wikipedia/ Code: https://github.com/simon-tiger/wikipedia-crawler/ Simon writes: How it Works … Continue reading Wikipedia Crawler
Last Friday Daniel Shiffman was finally back with his weekly livestreams! Simon was delirious with joy that he could be part of the team again and weeping and panicking every … Continue reading Simon’s Acrostic Machine
Simon set the timer for himself for 10 to 15 minutes, programming parts of the Rumikub game in Java (Processing):
A few more pics from the coding everywhere series: Here Simon made a game especially for his sister: Among the remaining favorites were reading (see an earlier post), swimming (and … Continue reading Coding everywhere, swimming and popping giant balloons
Homeschooling reversed. Every day during our vacation, Simon was pushing me through a crash course in JavaScript. He had lessons meticulously planned way ahead, with all the examples, and insisted … Continue reading Homeschooling reversed
Simon built a beautiful interactive circle intersection program in Processing, in which the circles detect intersection and change colors (according to Perlin Noise) once it occurs. The player can control … Continue reading Circle Intersection with Perlin Noise in Processing (Interactive)
Magformers (magnetic building sets involving maths) used to be Simon’s greatest passion when he was six (just a year ago!) and this week he has been travelling in time to … Continue reading Automatic Magformers Table
Simon has turned Daniel Shiffman’s Maze Generator Coding Challenge (generating a maze using the Depth-First Search Recursive algorithm) into a game in Processing (Java). It’s not fully operative yet, as the … Continue reading Maze Generator Game in Processing
Simon has created a great new game in Processing: The Hero Game! It is somewhat like the good old Mario, except that Simon has no idea what Mario is and … Continue reading Hero Game in Processing. Simon’s Own Code.
Simon has been studying various 2D collisions (via the p5.collide2D library and paulbourke.net), especially the Circle-Rectangle Intersection (Collision). He was so busy with this problem that he even put it down in chalk … Continue reading Circle-Rectangle Intersection (Collision)
We were caught up in the rain and had to wait at a restaurant. What do you do in a situation like this? Simon made a snake game on his … Continue reading Snake Game in Codea
Simon created his very first video game completely on his own. Everything in this game he came up with by himself – from the original idea and design to the … Continue reading The Sea Game. Simon’s First Own Game.
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