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a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com

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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on January 11, 2017January 12, 2017

CSS

Simon loves CSS and has been spending much of his time practicing it. According to him, HTML looks ugly without the CSS: CSS drop-downs

Categories: Coding, CSS, html, UncategorizedTags: Coding, CSS, html, LearnWebCode, web development
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 28, 2016

Bash

Simon’s first sketch in Bash.

Categories: Coding, UncategorizedTags: Bash, Coding
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 28, 2016December 28, 2016

Diffusion poster

Categories: chemistry, Coding, Physics, UncategorizedTags: algorithms, Coding, diffusion
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 28, 2016December 28, 2016

Conversion table

Categories: Coding, UncategorizedTags: Coding, webpages
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 20, 2016December 20, 2016

Webcam

With this simple JavaScript code you can make a webcam!  

Categories: Coding, JavaScript, UncategorizedTags: Coding, JavaScript, P5
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 17, 2016

Progress Documented

I wouldn’t publish this video if it wasn’t for one observation: this electricity project would have taken two hours just a few months ago. Now Simon assembles things like this … Continue reading Progress Documented

Categories: Arduino, Electricity, Electronics, Milestones, motor skills, UncategorizedTags: Arduino, Electricity
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 17, 2016

Some pajama music

Every evening Simon practices a little piano, whatever he has been working on with his piano teacher whom he attends twice a week.    

Categories: Piano, UncategorizedTags: glinka, Music, Piano
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 17, 2016December 17, 2016

Focus on the process

In this video Simon explains the method of querySelectorAll in JavaScript. He used it for a SVG challenge from LearnWebCode. Unfortunately, after several hours of work, when he was nearly there, the … Continue reading Focus on the process

Categories: Coding, JavaScript, UncategorizedTags: Coding, JavaScript, LearnWebCode, svg
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 17, 2016

Animation with Khan Academy

Simon has been trying different courses in JacaScript on Khan Academy, making some fun animations as part of tasks:  

Categories: Coding, JavaScript, Khan Academy, UncategorizedTags: animation, Coding, Khan Academy, visual arts
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 13, 2016December 16, 2016

Chinese and French

Categories: French, Mandarin, UncategorizedTags: Chinese, French
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 10, 2016December 11, 2016

Don’t Shoot!

“Mom! A boy was playing shooting games on the computer!” – the children ran up to our table, red-faced and interrupting each other as my husband and I were preparing … Continue reading Don’t Shoot!

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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on December 1, 2016December 1, 2016

Equations with variables on both sides

Equations with variables on both sides remain a difficult subject to grasp. Well, all right, we only tried it twice so far. On Monday evening I saw Simon sit down … Continue reading Equations with variables on both sides

Categories: Khan Academy, Murderous Maths, UncategorizedTags: equations, Khan Academy, math

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