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Simon’s latest Live Stream about Chapter 6 of his “Living Code” Course (particle systems!), loosely based on Daniel Shiffman’s Nature of Code. “I’m also going to live stream a surprise … Continue reading Live Stream #15. Chapter 6 of Living Code: Particle Systems
In this live session, Simon continue my 15s puzzle redo live session (“yet again, but I swear this is going to be the last time I do this!” Simon said). … Continue reading Live Stream #14. 15’s Puzzle Redo continued.
Simon has developed his version of the Magic Cards, this time in Base 3. He invented this system completely on his own and actually created a program in Processing … Continue reading Magic Cards in Base 3!
Simon has crafted a nice game today, inspired by a video in which mathematician Katie Steckles shows several mathematical games. Simon wasn’t sure what the game was called so he … Continue reading Reds and Greens
Today is one of the most beautiful days in Simon’s life: NYU Associate Professor and the creator of Coding Train Daniel Shiffman has been Simon’s guarding angel, role model and … Continue reading Simon and Daniel Shiffman
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
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
Simon has created a great new game in Processing: The Hero Game! It is somewhat like the good old Mario, except that Simon has no idea what Mario is and … Continue reading Hero Game in Processing. Simon’s Own Code.
Simon tried to reconstruct Bit Invader game (from Codea.io) in JavaScript, but got stuck at a certain point when he was programming the enemy to recognize the hero and the … Continue reading Translating Bit Invader from Codea into JavaScript
Simon came up with an idea to translate a physics visualization from the Codea app (using a language called Lua) into Processing (Java) by applying Box2D. The first two videos … Continue reading Simple Physics. Translating from Lua (the language in the Codea app) into Java
Simon was training to build console applications with Derek Banas’ tutorial on design patterns. At the end of the third video, Simon says yes to my question if the console app … Continue reading Console Application in Java
Simon is giving a short tutorial about Coffeescript, a JavaScript preprocessor, and explaining why it’s so popular:
Geeks out of the box 