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

Tag: 7 year old programmer

By Geeks out of the Box Posted on March 2, 2017

XML in Eclipse

Many tears today around Eclipse IDE and trying to build a webpage in XML. Several times the Eclipse version Simon downloaded was incorrect and he started anew. It was like … Continue reading XML in Eclipse

Categories: CodingTags: 7 year old programmer, Derek Banas, Eclipse, web development, XML, XSL
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on March 2, 2017

Console Application in Java

Simon was training to build console applications with Derek Banas’ tutorialĀ on design patterns. At the end of the third video, Simon says yes to my question if the console app … Continue reading Console Application in Java

Categories: CodingTags: 7 year old programmer, Coding, Console Applications, Derek Banas, Design patterns, Eclipse, Java
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 27, 2017

Dutch grammar

Simon’s passion is coding, but he does other things, too. Things like Dutch, because – in case you haven’t noticed – his native language is Dutch. I usually don’t film … Continue reading Dutch grammar

Categories: Dutch, Electronics, MilestonesTags: 7 year old programmer, Dutch, logic gates, morphology, NOR, syntax
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 27, 2017February 27, 2017

Coffee?

Simon is giving a short tutorial about Coffeescript, a JavaScript preprocessor, and explaining why it’s so popular:

Categories: Coding, JavaScriptTags: 7 year old programmer, Coding, Coffeescript, Derek Banas, JavaScript
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 27, 2017March 2, 2017

AngularJS in Espresso

Simon downloaded Espresso coding editor yesterday and used it to write AngularJS (a JavaScript framework about which Simon said that it was “a lot of fun” and “not intimidating”). Here … Continue reading AngularJS in Espresso

Categories: Coding, JavaScriptTags: 7 year old programmer, Angular, Derek Banas, Espresso, JavaScript
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 27, 2017

Back to circuits

Yesterday Simon asked me to buy new electronics software he found on the internet. It’s a realtime circuit simulator and editor called iCircuit. Simon has already built several circuits in … Continue reading Back to circuits

Categories: Coding, Electricity, Electronics, PhysicsTags: 7 year old programmer, Derek Banas, electric circuits, Electricity, Electronics, iCircuit, resistors
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 27, 2017

jQuery as an alternative to CSS

Simon has tried using jQuery instead of CSS to style a couple of webpages. The code comes from a Derek Banas tutorial.   These buttons have quite amusing effects:

Categories: Coding, CSS, JavaScriptTags: 7 year old programmer, Coding, CSS, Derek Banas, JavaScript, web development
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 25, 2017

Sound Visialization

Simon has followed another batch of wonderfully enriching tutorials by Daniel Shiffman on p5.js, this time all about sound, and made these sound visualisations. The first one is based on … Continue reading Sound Visialization

Categories: Coding, JavaScript, PhysicsTags: 7 year old programmer, amplitude, Coding, Daniel Shiffman, equalizer, frequency, P5, Physics, sound effects, sound visialization, soundwave
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 24, 2017February 27, 2017

Math vs Math

Yesterday Simon and I were doing some primary school math (Dutch 6th grade, Belgian 4th grade, on average two grades above Simon’s biological age). It’s something we regularly do to … Continue reading Math vs Math

Categories: Coding, Milestones, Notes on everyday lifeTags: 7 year old programmer, math, math sequences, notes, VisialStudio, Visual Basic
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 24, 2017

C# in VisualStudio

Simon downloaded VisialStudio, one of the ide’s in which you can write in C# on a pc, and has played with it writing a programme for a calculator in C#.

Categories: Coding, Murderous MathsTags: 7 year old programmer, c++, calculator, Coding, math, VisualStudio
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 22, 2017

Simon talking to me in English

Simon: You can use https if you want to get fancy. I: Do you want to get fancy, Simon? Simon: OBVIOUSLY NOT! *** Simon, in the car: Mommy, there is … Continue reading Simon talking to me in English

Categories: Coding, Milestones, Notes on everyday lifeTags: 7 year old programmer, English, notes
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 21, 2017

The Most Dangerous Place

Simon talking about the most dangerous place in the world:

Categories: Coding, Milestones, Python, UncategorizedTags: 7 year old programmer, Bash, Coding, Python, Python consoles, sudo python, terminal

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