Roald Dahl vs. Ryan Dahl
We’re reading Roald Dahl’s “Matilda” and Simon loves the fact that Matilda is gifted. He also thought it was funny he also knows another Dahl, Ryan Dahl. Here comes a … Continue reading Roald Dahl vs. Ryan Dahl
Tag: Coding
We fixed the PiTop! Can’t believe it worked!
It was Simon’s idea to reimage the corrupted SD-card, he tried doing it himself the morning after the crash. He downloaded Noobs and Raspbian from RaspberryPi’s website but couldn’t go … Continue reading We fixed the PiTop! Can’t believe it worked!
PiTop, day 2 (Tuesday)
Didn’t really feel like going to his first Fench class this morning. All he wanted to do before and after French class was program: We were utterly shattered when at … Continue reading PiTop, day 2 (Tuesday)
PiTop, day 1 (Monday)
Yesterday, while we were celebrating Halloween, Simon had more important things to do: he assembled his first laptop and spent hours programming it.
Simon calculates colour probabilities. #RRGGBB
In the video below Simon applies his knowledge of combinatorics to calculate the total number of possible colours one can create in CSS. I didn’t ask him to do this. … Continue reading Simon calculates colour probabilities. #RRGGBB
More HTML
On Saturday Simon continued studying html. He didn’t know I was filming him: The codes he made/ copied/ studied via the http://www.w3schools.com/html:
HTML
Discovered today: a website teaching html Simon trained himself to make buttons and more. On the down side, got completely stuck while trying to move further in JavaScript in Code Academy, … Continue reading HTML
Double Blink
Simon changed the default blink LED code to make the LED double blink (cut down on the delay time):
Today’s self written code
Simon has been scrutinizing yet another platform, Particle (producing the Electron, Photon and Core microcomputers https://docs.particle.io/guide/getting-started/intro/photon/ ) and wrote this code online at https://build.particle.io/build/new Unfortunately, he doesn’t have any of their devices to … Continue reading Today’s self written code
Code Academy JavaScript Courses
On Thursday and Friday Simon started a new course on Code Academy, this time in Java Script! The first tasks have been quite interesting. I especially likes the one about moon … Continue reading Code Academy JavaScript Courses
Code Academy Python Courses (Continued)
Over the past week Simon has made some more progress in his Python courses. By now he has completed 5 courses. The level of the last few lessons is quite … Continue reading Code Academy Python Courses (Continued)
Geeks out of the box 