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Simon followed up on Daniel Shiffman’s Binary Tree Coding Challenge and made his own version: he flipped the tree so that it grows from the bottom (and not from the … Continue reading Binary Tree Coding Challenge, Simon’s version
The next exciting step in writing his own code about spring force: Simon actually created an interface to allow anyone to build his own shape made of springs and particles! Simon … Continue reading Spring Animation Tool (Simon’s own code)
Simon loved Daniel Shiffman’s simulation of the Plinko game and added some extra features to Daniel’s code, like a button to make new chips appear. He also saw a … Continue reading Simon’s Plinko
This is so exciting! Simon has written his first Java code completely on his own! It’s an animation of the Archimedean spiral (well, we only found out later that it’s actually called … Continue reading Simon’s first own code: Archimedean spiral in Processing (Java).
Yesterday Simon created an account on GitHub! He had followed a number of tutorials by both Daniel Shiffman and LearnWebCode to learn how to upload his projects on GitHub using … Continue reading Simon is on GitHub!
Simon practicing Markdown with GitHub:
“Mommy, I want to get my hands dirty now! Cause I’ve got power!” Simon told me (literally and in English) on Thursday evening after he downloaded Git on his laptop. … Continue reading Git and GitHub
Geeks out of the box 