Lessons for Mom continued
It’s great that Simon continues to find the time to teach me some JavaScript. We’re now done with the Basic course he had prepared, below are some impressions. The video … Continue reading Lessons for Mom continued
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Processing on RaspberryPi
Simon installed Processing on his RaspberryPi recently (using the terminal, which looked terribly sophisticated and scary as on Linux you’re forced to do everything through the terminal) and started preparing … Continue reading Processing on RaspberryPi
Recursion example in Code
Simon built this #recursion example/ pattern (a Sierpinski triangle) in Codea (using the language Lua) while we a had a coffee at a cafe:
Simon contributed his own cloud for the Processing Community Day
In the video below, Simon is showing the cloud design he contributed to the community project collecting cloud designs for the Processing Community Day coming up on October 21, 2017. … Continue reading Simon contributed his own cloud for the Processing Community Day
Simon Proposes a Community Project in Procedural Design
Inspired by the Processing Community Day projects, Simon came up with an idea to launch his own community project – in procedural design. He used the Coding Train Community Cloud … Continue reading Simon Proposes a Community Project in Procedural Design
10 PRINT in p5.js and Python. Emulating a text console.
A simple code creating a beautiful pattern using text: Based on a coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman, where he created a version of the classic one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program in … Continue reading 10 PRINT in p5.js and Python. Emulating a text console.
Simon’s Spellcheck API
Simon has continued with server side programming and made a spellcheck API! Here is the link, you can play with it yourself by adding new words to the corpus (dictionary): … Continue reading Simon’s Spellcheck API
Wikipedia Crawler
Simon has made his version of Daniel Shiffman’s Wikipedia Crawler, graphing the relatedness between Wikipedia articles. Play with it yourself online at: https://simon-tiger.github.io/wikipedia-crawler/wikipedia/ Code: https://github.com/simon-tiger/wikipedia-crawler/ Simon writes: How it Works … Continue reading Wikipedia Crawler
Set, Stack, Queue and Array in Computer Science
In this small lecture Simon talks about Set, Stack, Queue and Array in Computer Science. Simon says he made a mistake in the Addendum: you can add and remove … Continue reading Set, Stack, Queue and Array in Computer Science
Text Generating Machine that Posts to Twitter
A milestone in server side programming here, as Simon has built a text generating machine that posts to Simon’s Twitter account! Essentially, it’s website where anyone can enter his own … Continue reading Text Generating Machine that Posts to Twitter
The Magformers saga continued
Oops, the Magformers are back in our life. I thought that Simon was over Magformers (which he built with excessively when he was six), but he has picked them up … Continue reading The Magformers saga continued
Simon’s Acrostic Machine
Last Friday Daniel Shiffman was finally back with his weekly livestreams! Simon was delirious with joy that he could be part of the team again and weeping and panicking every … Continue reading Simon’s Acrostic Machine
Geeks out of the box 