a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon wrote a nice short program in Processing (Java) to make snapshots. To make sure the files are not overwritten when the program runs again I need to … Continue reading Photo Booth Project (Simon’s own code)
During math lesson today, Simon’s teacher Sven pointed out that Simon seems to be looking at math problems with programmer’s eyes. Once he is presented with a new problem (in … Continue reading Digging deep
Another fun chemistry workshop today with John Maas: solubility of salts, metal dissolving in acid and burning like a star, and other interesting lab tests and the theory behind them. The … Continue reading Salts and Metals
In today’s project (partly based upon Daniel Shiffman’s Diffusion-Limited Aggregation Coding Challenge), Simon attempted to combine the generative algorithm “Diffusion-Limited Aggregation” (DLA) and an IQ Puzzler game. As DLA visual pattern is … Continue reading Random Walker Puzzler. Diffusion-Limited Aggregation (Simon’s own code)
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Simon ventured upon a serious quest – he translated Daniel Shiffman’s multi-part Traveling Salesperson Coding Challenge from JavaScript into Processing (Java). The travelling salesman problem (TSP) asks … Continue reading Simon translated Travelling Salesperson Coding Challenge from JavaScript into Processing (Java)
Teaching his little sis to read has become a regular thing
Just a few pics I took over the past week of Simon studying:
Simon disliked the lessons he followed at the tennis club, mainly because they started way too early in the morning, so we switched to family “lessons” instead – all the … Continue reading Tennis season is open!
Simon’s progress in Chinese over the last couple of weeks. It’s funny how he writes neat cursive English words alongside the characters during the Mandarin lessons but hates writing cursive … Continue reading Chinese
Math on Friday:
This is currently Simon’s favourite piece – an adapted take on Saint-Saens’ Samson and Dalila:
Simon followed up on Daniel Shiffman’s Binary Tree Coding Challenge and made his own version: he flipped the tree so that it grows from the bottom (and not from the … Continue reading Binary Tree Coding Challenge, Simon’s version
Geeks out of the box 