a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
After months is self-isolation, we spent the whole month of August away from home, first at our old home in Amsterdam, where we had some urgent personal matters to arrange, … Continue reading Amsterdam Friends and Color Jump
Simon’s self-made Onitama game set, real fun to play.
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
Simon talking about his Tantrix Game code and the math behind it. It has been Simon’s first community project, many thanks to everyone who has contributed hexagonal tiles for the … Continue reading Tantrix Game in JavaScript
Simon programmed this game a couple of weeks ago but I have waited to publish the video as I hoped he would finish it and get in on GitHub. Unfortunately … Continue reading Muredo in JavaScript
Simon created this coin flip simulation in the form of a game that runs until you get 10 heads in a row. In the video, he explains what the chance … Continue reading Flipping Coins
Simon built this game inspired by a Numberphile video (he had never seen or played the actual puzzle before, but I have as a kid). The code is Simon’s own, … Continue reading 15s Puzzle in Processing
Simon invented this fun game in Processing after he and his little sister had some proper winter fun outdoors in the fresh December snow (quite rare for the local climate … Continue reading The Snowball Throwing Game in Processing
Simon shows the Cannon game he created in Processing (Java). He says he was inspired by the Stackoverflow forum, where he saw an example of the game and later wrote … Continue reading Cannon Game in Processing
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.
Note: See the update at the bottom of this post! We’ve had quite a dramatic situation here for the past couple of days, after Simon turned Daniel Shiffman’s Evolutionary Steering … Continue reading Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Game
Simon translated Daniel Shiffman’s Plinko game coding challenge from JavaScript and Matter.JS into Processing (Java) and Box2D: Simon adds that he didn’t actually do part 4 of the coding challenge, … Continue reading Plinko game translated into Processing (Java) and Box2D
Geeks out of the box 