a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
We continue stacking Rubik themed obsessions. Let’s start with Rubik’s Race, a cool puzzle somewhat resembling the 15 puzzle. The players get a random 3×3 pattern and compete in matching … Continue reading Cubing Craze Highlights
Cubing craze has reached a whole new level as Simon’s speed cube shop order is stuck at the customs in Brussels and his last old speed cube is broken. What … Continue reading Rubik’s Cube Simulator and More
This year has been a year of revelations in terms of how we visually perceive the world and whether those new nuggets of knowledge can be reflected in digital art. … Continue reading Visual Perception Hacks
https://snack.expo.io/ is a website to make small fun apps (called “snacks”) with React Native. What is React Native, you may ask. It’s something Simon and Neva have been crazy about … Continue reading Snacks! 🍿
A couple of months ago, Neva pointed to a narrow slit in the facade of the building across the street and said she observed birds go in and out. They … Continue reading In the Middle of our Street
We write this blog together, share their projects and thoughts on their journey towards self-dicovery. They’re growing up in a supportive non-coercive learning environment. We deeply believe in interest-based, self-paced … Continue reading This is a blog about Simon, a young mathematical mind into coding and cubing, and his little sister Neva
Neva has recorded her first video explaining how she coded a project, a mini-tutorial. It’s an example of a visualization using classes and arrays in JS. You can also access … Continue reading Neva’s first coding tut
I come back from the hummus take-away and hear Neva say: Mom, we’ve discovered something! We’ve discovered what the first number above zero which is less than the sum of … Continue reading Gorgeous Numbers
Simon has been spending most of his time practicing Unity with the wonderful set of game dev tutorials by Sebastian Lague. The short compilation below highlights three initial projects he … Continue reading Two more steps forward in Unity land
Everyone at our household have always had aversion to violent computer games. When we speak of games, we mainly speak of immersive environments, educational games and, since Simon took his … Continue reading First Steps in Unity 🎱
Simon has been hiding so-called “easter eggs” on his Discord server, i.e. hidden surprises that can be anything ranging from a character code to a math puzzle, for his friends … Continue reading What Geeks Do for Easter Egg Hunt 🥚
CodinGame is a fun and social way to learn to code. Neva has been practicing in both speed solving other people’s coding challenges and authoring her own math-based puzzles for … Continue reading Neva has started creating her own puzzles on CodinGame
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