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This weekend Simon came back to his old fascination, Fractal Trees. This time he didn’t just follow along Daniel Shiffman’s coding challenges, but created customized versions of Daniel’s trees, adding … Continue reading Fractal Trees Customized
Simon’s favorite piece for the moment – Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony:
Simon also worked on a Markov Chains projects this weekend, trying to introduce a slider into his text generating code. “A Markov ChainĀ can be described as a sequence of random … Continue reading Markov Chains. Simon added a slider.
Today Simon was watching Daniel Shiffman’s tutorials to learnĀ about drag force and how to apply it when building a spring simulation in p5.js. Simon wrote the formula for drag force … Continue reading Oscillation and Drag Force: Spring Project.
Simon has nearly completed the basic equations and inequalities course on Khan Academy. Every time his math teacher comes they solve a couple of inequalities from the course and what … Continue reading Inequalities Machine 2.0
Simon talking about the most dangerous place in the world:
Simon practicing Markdown with GitHub:
Simon has been following Flexbox Essentials tutorial with DevTips and built a website:
Simon says he has invented a way to center text vertically without Flexbox:
Another attempt with the Word Interactor Coding Challenge: Word Counter: Here the results are placed in alphabetical order:
A superellipse This was the formula (Simon doesn’t fully understand it yet but loves playing with it):
“Mommy, I want to get my hands dirty now! Cause I’ve got power!” Simon told me (literally and in English) on Thursday evening after he downloaded Git on his laptop. … Continue reading Git and GitHub
Geeks out of the box 