Digisnacks
Yesterday at Simon’s first session by the Digisnacks, a course offered by the Antwerp University’s computer science faculty. The session was about computer history, what’s inside the computer and binary language.
Tag: Coding
Sometimes it just doesn’t work
Simon was trying to program his Arduino board to use a magnetic switch to turn an LED on and off, but the code didn’t work. The LED was burning no … Continue reading Sometimes it just doesn’t work
CodeFever
Simon has been attending this weekly Scratch club CodeFever since the end of September. At the beginning they suggested placing him in the oldest group, for 12 to 15 year olds, but after … Continue reading CodeFever
Code Academy Python Courses, Day 2.
Today we had a much busier day as we had to bike for two hours to get Simon to his Scratch programming class. That said, Code Academy still largely ruled … Continue reading Code Academy Python Courses, Day 2.
Code Academy Python Courses
Tuesday morning I briefly showed Code Academy’s website to Simon: “Look, you can learn to code in Python right here. And here’s a list of other coding languages”, – I … Continue reading Code Academy Python Courses
Simon translates code from Python to Arduino
To write a Python project in Arduino Simon had to calculate how many milliseconds there are in one day, one month and one year. Here he explains how he did … Continue reading Simon translates code from Python to Arduino
Python
Simon is exercising in Python. He tried to replicate the Blink LED project from an online Raspberry Pi tutorial here:
Physics with SparkFun
Simon has discovered yet another awesome resource: SparkFun, comprising a variety of projects electronics and coding based on Arduino, Intel Edison, Raspberry Pi and more. https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials In this video Simon explains … Continue reading Physics with SparkFun
JavaScript
Next to the c++ in Arduino Simon is also trying to learn some JavaScript from the SAM app. He finds JavaScript more difficult.
The Elusive Liquid Crystal Display
Simon tried to program the Arduino liquid crystal display for the first time last weekend. First the code kept giving an error, it took us more than an hour to find … Continue reading The Elusive Liquid Crystal Display
Learning Process
So how does Simon teach himself to program? He starts by copying open source codes from, for example, the Arduino manual. The code is available in short excerpts. While copying … Continue reading Learning Process
Geeks out of the box 