a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has created a great new game in Processing: The Hero Game! It is somewhat like the good old Mario, except that Simon has no idea what Mario is and … Continue reading Hero Game in Processing. Simon’s Own Code.
Simon has been studying various 2D collisions (via the p5.collide2D library and paulbourke.net), especially the Circle-Rectangle Intersection (Collision). He was so busy with this problem that he even put it down in chalk … Continue reading Circle-Rectangle Intersection (Collision)
We were caught up in the rain and had to wait at a restaurant. What do you do in a situation like this? Simon made a snake game on his … Continue reading Snake Game in Codea
Simon was reading about math functions on Wikipedia and came up with an idea to create an interactive math functions editor in JavaScript that would visualize (i.e. show the graphs … Continue reading Interactive Math Functions
Simon created his very first video game completely on his own. Everything in this game he came up with by himself – from the original idea and design to the … Continue reading The Sea Game. Simon’s First Own Game.
Simon normally uses the old JavaScript syntax but has been looking into the new ES6. Below are Simon’s notes on the new syntax in JavaScript called ES6 for cleaner more … Continue reading ES6, the new syntax
Simon spent hours studying the D3 library on Sunday, it’s a very popular JavaScript library using SVG images he had never tried before. He also found it great how the … Continue reading Simon trying out the D3 library
This weekend Simon came back to his old fascination, Fractal Trees. This time he didn’t just follow along Daniel Shiffman’s coding challenges, but created customized versions of Daniel’s trees, adding … Continue reading Fractal Trees Customized
Simon built a program in Codea visualizing the absolute value of a vector:
Simon shows a project he built using the p5.collide.2D library – he combined two codes from GitHub to make a program looking for intersection points between two lines in JavaScript:
Simon’s own code, a color mixing program in C# that he wrote in Xamarin. Simon also explains why he chose C# for this project and not Processing:
Note: See the update at the bottom of this post! We’ve had quite a dramatic situation here for the past couple of days, after Simon turned Daniel Shiffman’s Evolutionary Steering … Continue reading Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Game
Geeks out of the box 