Simon’s side notes
Just a few pics I took over the past week of Simon studying:
Tag: 7 year old programmer
Binary Tree Coding Challenge, Simon’s version
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
Tetris (Simon’s own code)
Simon wrote a Tetris program in Processing (Java) on Thursday afternoon. He has never played Tetris. He learned about the game from a Russian educative cartoon series Fixiki episode, where it … Continue reading Tetris (Simon’s own code)
Geometry Free Collision Detection. Attractors.
Simon returned to his “old” code (something he wrote about a month ago) and fixed the collision detection in it. He called this “geometry free”collision detection because he doesn’t use any … Continue reading Geometry Free Collision Detection. Attractors.
Perlin Noise Terrain Coding Challenge
Simon wanted to pretend like he is flying over an endless terrain ad completed this Terrain Generation with Perlin Noise in Processing Coding Challenge by Daniel Shiffman yesterday.
Spring Animation Tool (Simon’s own code)
The next exciting step in writing his own code about spring force: Simon actually created an interface to allow anyone to build his own shape made of springs and particles! Simon … Continue reading Spring Animation Tool (Simon’s own code)
Soft Springs (Simon’s own code)
Simon used Chapter 3 (Oscillation) of Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code as the theoretical basis for creating his own code. First, he played around with what he calls “soft springs” – … Continue reading Soft Springs (Simon’s own code)
Oscillation and Drag Force: Spring Project.
Today Simon was watching Daniel Shiffman’s tutorials to learn 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.
Microsoft Kinect (v2) in Processing using the Open Kinect for Processing library
Our Kinect adapter has finally arrived! Simon had been waiting for about one and a half months and was extremely hyper to try out the code he had already written … Continue reading Microsoft Kinect (v2) in Processing using the Open Kinect for Processing library
Path Following (Simon’s own code). Applying restitution.
On Thursday Simon was busy with writing his own code in Java. He called it “Path Following”. The project basically involved simulating different phenomena with a physics particle (having it … Continue reading Path Following (Simon’s own code). Applying restitution.
Looping through an array lecture
In these videos Simon explains looping through an array and adding while simultaneously removing things from that array. He recorded this presentation while working on an evolution simulation (Evolutionary Steering Behaviors, see … Continue reading Looping through an array lecture
Simulating Evolution: Evolutionary Steering Behaviors
On Wednesday Simon went on with playing god (evolution simulation) and translated Daniel Shiffman’s Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Coding Challenge from JavaScript to Java. The goal of the challenge is to … Continue reading Simulating Evolution: Evolutionary Steering Behaviors
Geeks out of the box 