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This was a very interesting coding challenge to do: imagining we were AI’s unable to grasp the sentiment of the content we tried to analyse several simple texts with a Sentiment … Continue reading Sentiment Analysis Coding Challenge
Simon completed Daniel Shiffman’s Pathfinding Algorithm Coding Challenge (parts 1-3) in two days and was so mesmerised by the result that he just couldn’t stop refreshing his localhost preview:
Simon completed this coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman fairly quickly: Simon also learned about the term Lévy flight, in math essentially the same as a “random walk” within continuous space or … Continue reading Random Walker Coding Challenge
Simon has discovered a very powerful online editor (featuring over 40 languages): Cloud9. You can find it at https://c9.io Simon got himself an account and tried out his first project in … Continue reading Shared Drawing Canvas in Cloud9
For his math class Simon programmed a scratch pad (well, he didn’t actually invent the code, but found it in Daniel Shiffman’s coding challenges and built the scratch pad on … Continue reading Scratch Pad for the math class
Another attempt with the Word Interactor Coding Challenge: Word Counter: Here the results are placed in alphabetical order:
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
Simon did another coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman today, this time a short one called Phyllotaxis. You might be thinking, what in heaven’s name is Phyllotaxis? As it turned out, … Continue reading Where Botany meets Math and What is Cartesian vs Polar?
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
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. :
I think this is probably the most beautiful coding challenge Simon has completed so far. It’s based on a Perlin noise coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman where you’re asked to create a … Continue reading Perlin Noise Flow Field Coding Challenge
Simon has completed Daniel Shiffman’s Mad Libs Generator Coding Challenge – a fun word game where one fills in a google form and the words filled in are then used … Continue reading Mad Libs Generator Coding Challenge
Geeks out of the box 