a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has recorded his first set of web development tutorials, about how to create a slideshow. The original code comes from the w3schools.com website. Simon got stuck … Continue reading Simon’s first set of Web Development How To’s: How to make a slideshow
Simon normally uses the old JavaScript syntax but has been looking into the new ES6. Below are Simon’s notes on the new syntax in JavaScript called ES6 for cleaner more … Continue reading ES6, the new syntax
This weekend Simon came back to his old fascination, Fractal Trees. This time he didn’t just follow along Daniel Shiffman’s coding challenges, but created customized versions of Daniel’s trees, adding … Continue reading Fractal Trees Customized
This weekend Simon told me he came up with this rule that if you take two denominators that make rational fractions when you divide one by those denominators and you … Continue reading Simon’s Rational Fractions Rule
Simon built a program in Codea visualizing the absolute value of a vector:
Simon shows a project he built using the p5.collide.2D library – he combined two codes from GitHub to make a program looking for intersection points between two lines in JavaScript:
We continue reading the Russian adventurous math books by Vladimir Levshin (1904-1984) – see an older post about it – and Simon is often excited about the challenges discussed. This time however, … Continue reading How to double a cube?
Simon’s own code, a color mixing program in C# that he wrote in Xamarin. Simon also explains why he chose C# for this project and not Processing:
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 playing an adapted piece from Wagner’s Tannhäuser and getting annoyed as the teacher is trying to help him through singing. A nice example of Simon’s hypersensitivity.
Geeks out of the box 