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And more training web development with SASS via LearnWebCode: Simon downloaded Prepros, a free tool that can compile almost all preprocessing languages like Sass, Less, Stylus, Cssnext, Jade/Pug, Markdown, Slim, Coffeescript … Continue reading Web development with SASS
Another web development exercise with LearnWebCode:
We’ve got a whiteboard now! And that means more lectures by Simon! Here he sketched something about random and noise functions, exciting stuff:
When an error with XML HTTP Request occurred Simon spontaneously drafted an explanation in Microsoft Word. This video captured how quickly and easily he operates in Microsoft Office:
Simon came back to Daniel Shiffman’s Snake game Coding Challenge last week, a project he already made a while ago but on a lower level (he made it on a Mac … Continue reading The Snake Game
Simon feels much better doing math in a scratch pad or typing the equations on the screen as opposed to writing things down on paper.
We have purchased something Simon wanted to have for months already: new software to construct the craziest 3D-supershapes! The software is pretty old, developed by Australian programmer Paul Bourke long before … Continue reading Crazy Supershapes
A superellipse This was the formula (Simon doesn’t fully understand it yet but loves playing with it):
Simon tried Firebase today, Google’s mobile platform assisting in app development. One of its features is the Realtime Database and Simon learned about it from his favourite online “teacher”, Daniel … Continue reading Saving p5.js Drawings to Firebase
“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 