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Simon has built this fun Atari game where a spaceship shoots at asteroids with laser and breaks them down into pieces. It was actually another coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman … Continue reading Asteroids Coding Challenge
Since he wrote his first own code last week, Simon has attempted to write a couple more. This morning he came up with a code for a calculator in the … Continue reading Simon’s next own code: Calculator
This particle system code Simon has written in Cloud9 originally comes from p5.js and makes a beautiful simulation of a waterfall:
Here Simon played with cellular automation (a model used in computational science). A cellular automation consists of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of … Continue reading Cellular Automation
Yesterday some of my Facebook and Twitter friends thought that I had gone mad or, at the very least, that my account had been hacked: there were strange postings appearing … Continue reading Twitter Bots
On Friday Simon finished another beautiful Daniel Shiffman coding challenge called Mapping Earthquake Data. The purpose of this coding challenge was to visualize earthquake data from the USGS website (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/) by mapping … Continue reading Mapping Earthquake Data Coding Challenge
Simon explains the difference between linear transition and ease transition:
Simon got seriously hooked on Matter.js, a a 2D JavaScript physics library that supports rigid body collisions and constraints. He started with Daniel Shiffman intro to Matter.js, downloaded it using GitBash … Continue reading Matter.js (Physics Library)
Simon has nearly completed the basic equations and inequalities course on Khan Academy. Every time his math teacher comes they solve a couple of inequalities from the course and what … Continue reading Inequalities Machine 2.0
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
Simon is giving a short tutorial about Coffeescript, a JavaScript preprocessor, and explaining why it’s so popular:
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
Geeks out of the box 