a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has created a beautiful little website with a tutorial (that he wrote completely on his own, from scratch) on how to build a superellipse in JavaScript. Here is the link: https://thimbleprojects.org/simontiger/315031/ … Continue reading Simon’s Superellipse tutorial on Thimble
In this video, Simon gives an introduction to the basics of programming languages (what languages there are, which ones are front end and which ones are back end and what … Continue reading Simon’s Lecture on Programming Languages
Simon made an interactive version of Daniel Shiffman’s Attraction and Repulsion Project:
Simon set the timer for himself for 10 to 15 minutes, programming parts of the Rumikub game in Java (Processing):
Among other projects during the vacation were also computer vision projects: color sensor, color tracker, motion sensor and motion/ face detection in Java (in Processing), partially Simon’s own code: … Continue reading Computer Vision Projects in Java (Processing)
During the vacation, Simon worked on several programming projects playing with language and grammar, from Daniel Shiffman’s Programming from A to Z course at New York University. Those included creating a new … Continue reading Analysis and generation of text-based data. What else to do on vacation?
A few more pics from the coding everywhere series: Here Simon made a game especially for his sister: Among the remaining favorites were reading (see an earlier post), swimming (and … Continue reading Coding everywhere, swimming and popping giant balloons
Homeschooling reversed. Every day during our vacation, Simon was pushing me through a crash course in JavaScript. He had lessons meticulously planned way ahead, with all the examples, and insisted … Continue reading Homeschooling reversed
For his 8th birthday, Simon made a present for himself in Node.js and spoke about his new year’s resolutions that mainly involve live streaming: Today, two days later, we actually … Continue reading Simon turned 8!
Geeks out of the box 