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By Geeks out of the Box Posted on March 10, 2017

UML Class Diagrams

On Tuesday, Simon was following another tutorial by Derek Banas, this time on UML Class Diagrams, and thought it would be fun to draw the diagrams in a new app … Continue reading UML Class Diagrams

Categories: Coding, MilestonesTags: 7 year old programmer, Class diagrams, ClickCharts, Derek Banas, Design patterns, Diagrams, Java, Structural diagrams, UML
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on March 7, 2017

Java Design Patterns

Simon has been studying Java Design Patterns with Derek Banas. Some he tries to build (videos below), some he gets stuck with, but the topic has kept him excited for … Continue reading Java Design Patterns

Categories: CodingTags: 7 year old programmer, Derek Banas, Design patterns, Java, Strategy Design Pattern
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on March 3, 2017

AngularJS Filters

I thought we could limit ourselves to just two or three filters but Simon wanted to make videos about all the filters he learned, so here you go. The upper … Continue reading AngularJS Filters

Categories: CodingTags: 7 year old programmer, Angular, Derek Banas, JavaScript
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on March 2, 2017

XML in Eclipse

Many tears today around Eclipse IDE and trying to build a webpage in XML. Several times the Eclipse version Simon downloaded was incorrect and he started anew. It was like … Continue reading XML in Eclipse

Categories: CodingTags: 7 year old programmer, Derek Banas, Eclipse, web development, XML, XSL
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on March 2, 2017

Console Application in 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

Categories: CodingTags: 7 year old programmer, Coding, Console Applications, Derek Banas, Design patterns, Eclipse, Java
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 27, 2017February 27, 2017

Coffee?

Simon is giving a short tutorial about Coffeescript, a JavaScript preprocessor, and explaining why it’s so popular:

Categories: Coding, JavaScriptTags: 7 year old programmer, Coding, Coffeescript, Derek Banas, JavaScript
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 27, 2017March 2, 2017

AngularJS in Espresso

Simon downloaded Espresso coding editor yesterday and used it to write AngularJS (a JavaScript framework about which Simon said that it was “a lot of fun” and “not intimidating”). Here … Continue reading AngularJS in Espresso

Categories: Coding, JavaScriptTags: 7 year old programmer, Angular, Derek Banas, Espresso, JavaScript
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 27, 2017

Back to circuits

Yesterday Simon asked me to buy new electronics software he found on the internet. It’s a realtime circuit simulator and editor called iCircuit. Simon has already built several circuits in … Continue reading Back to circuits

Categories: Coding, Electricity, Electronics, PhysicsTags: 7 year old programmer, Derek Banas, electric circuits, Electricity, Electronics, iCircuit, resistors
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 27, 2017

jQuery as an alternative to CSS

Simon has tried using jQuery instead of CSS to style a couple of webpages. The code comes from a Derek Banas tutorial.   These buttons have quite amusing effects:

Categories: Coding, CSS, JavaScriptTags: 7 year old programmer, Coding, CSS, Derek Banas, JavaScript, web development
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 10, 2017February 10, 2017

Susy, a SASS framework

Simon has spent nearly the whole day trying to build a website following a Derek Banas tutorial on Susy, a SASS framework. He first built the website in Windows 10, … Continue reading Susy, a SASS framework

Categories: Coding, CSSTags: 7 year old programmer, CSS, Derek Banas, SASS, Susy

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