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Simon is a big fan of w3schools.com and has been using their w3.js library for these exercises. In the first video he shows a sort table he made. By pressing … Continue reading Simon’s Search Engine, Sort Table and Self-Made Arrows
We’ve got a whiteboard now! And that means more lectures by Simon! Here he sketched something about random and noise functions, exciting stuff:
Simon came back to Daniel Shiffman’s Snake game Coding Challenge last week, a project he already made a while ago but on a lower level (he made it on a Mac … Continue reading The Snake Game
A superellipse This was the formula (Simon doesn’t fully understand it yet but loves playing with it):
Simon tried Firebase today, Google’s mobile platform assisting in app development. One of its features is the Realtime Database and Simon learned about it from his favourite online “teacher”, Daniel … Continue reading Saving p5.js Drawings to Firebase
“Mommy, I want to get my hands dirty now! Cause I’ve got power!” Simon told me (literally and in English) on Thursday evening after he downloaded Git on his laptop. … Continue reading Git and GitHub
Simon compiled a table of borders used in CSS:
Simon loves Daniel Shiffman. Today he programmed a Video Photobooth on his laptop, following Daniel Shiffman’s tutorial number 10.2. The tutorial teaches saving a history of images from live camera … Continue reading Video Photobooth
Having completed Code Academy’s Learn SASS course last night (see previous blog post), Simon independently downloaded SASS on his new laptop this morning and built a website in his text … Continue reading Applying the sassy skills
Simon completed Code Academy’s Learn SASS course in just one evening last night! SASS is part of CSS. This morning he applied the skills he acquired in the course to … Continue reading Sassy! And sassy English, too!
Simon had a lot fun following Daniel Shiffman’s Graphing Perlin Noise tutorial. In the video’s below he explains some of the basic concepts he learned. :
This weekend Simon experimented with how JavaScript can change HTML attributes (something he earned from w3schools):
Geeks out of the box 