Coding Train – Geeks out of the box

By Geeks out of the Box October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

A super-simple database

As a suggestion on a Coding Train thread on GitHub in which Daniel Sghiffman was asking for ideas on how to keep poll votes after restarting the server, Simon has … Continue reading A super-simple database

By Geeks out of the Box June 24, 2020

Question Bot

Simon has built a question bot that will collect questions on The Coding Train Discord so that Daniel Shiffman can answer them during the following live session. This is something … Continue reading Question Bot

By Geeks out of the Box May 11, 2020May 27, 2020

New Friends. New Horizons.

Thanks to the lock-down, Simon’s got new friends. For a little over a month now, he has been part of exciting daily discussions, challenging coding sessions and just playing together … Continue reading New Friends. New Horizons.

By Geeks out of the Box February 17, 2020

Space-filling Curves in p5.js.

Simon prepared this project as a community contribution for The Coding Train (Simon came up with his own way to draw the Hilbert Curve and added interactive elements to enable … Continue reading Space-filling Curves in p5.js.

By Geeks out of the Box January 19, 2020

How Simon takes part in the Coding train live sessions

Every live session Daniel Shiffman mentions Simon several times, usually because Simon gives good feedback/ advice. On the other end, Simon is invigorated and jumping about the room. Sometimes resulting … Continue reading How Simon takes part in the Coding train live sessions

By Geeks out of the Box January 6, 2020

Simon Builds a Chess AI with Minimax

I’ve been terrible at keeping this blog up to date. One of Simon’s best project in December 2019 was creating a chess robot and I haven’t even shared it here. … Continue reading Simon Builds a Chess AI with Minimax

By Geeks out of the Box November 17, 2019

Simon’s Random Number Generator

This one’s back from mid-October, forgot to post here. Simon created a random number generator that generates a frequency, and then picks it back up. Then, it calculates the error … Continue reading Simon’s Random Number Generator

By Geeks out of the Box May 10, 2019

Always listen to Simon!

Just a funny piece from a member-only Coding Train session 😉

By Geeks out of the Box May 7, 2019

Example of Simon contributing an issue on GitHub

Below is Simon’s issue/ topic suggestion he contributed to the Coding Train GitHub yesterday, addressed to Daniel Shiffman: Function Overloading Nah. Operator Overloading OK, first, we have to understand the valueOf() function. valueOf() is … Continue reading Example of Simon contributing an issue on GitHub

By Geeks out of the Box May 1, 2019

Simon’s Computer Science Algorithm Suggestions

Simon’s suggestion for the Coding Train on GitHub: Because I like computer science these days, here are some computer science algorithm suggestions: Data Structures Array Linked List Hash Table Stack … Continue reading Simon’s Computer Science Algorithm Suggestions

By Geeks out of the Box April 8, 2019

Chat experiences

Simon came up to me last nigh saying he didn’t understand what “they mean with God is with me” and showed the following funny conversation going on in the comments … Continue reading Chat experiences

By Geeks out of the Box February 1, 2019

Fluid Dynamics: Laughing and Crying

Simon was watching Daniel Shiffman’s live coding lesson on Wednesday, and when fluid dynamics and Navier-Stokes equations came up (describing the motion of fluid in substances and used to model … Continue reading Fluid Dynamics: Laughing and Crying