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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 15, 2017

jQuery Mobile Website

Simon made a mobile website using jQuery Mobile (a pack of CSS and JavaScript) with w3schools.com The website included a home page, e-mail, a phonebook and a calendar (a bit … Continue reading jQuery Mobile Website

Categories: Coding, CSS, JavaScriptTags: 7 year old programmer, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, w3schools.com, web development
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 10, 2017February 10, 2017

Sentiment Analysis Coding Challenge

This was a very interesting coding challenge to do: imagining we were AI’s unable to grasp the sentiment of the content we tried to analyse several simple texts with a Sentiment … Continue reading Sentiment Analysis Coding Challenge

Categories: Coding, JavaScript, Milestones, Simon makes gamezTags: 7 year old programmer, Daniel Shiffman, JavaScript, P5, Sentiment Analysis
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 6, 2017February 6, 2017

The Threejs Library

Simon keeps finding awesome libraries online, this weekend he came up with this gem of 3D JavaScript: https://threejs.org There are masses of examples, this one was our favourite. Can’t wait until … Continue reading The Threejs Library

Categories: Coding, JavaScript, Together with sisTags: 3D JS, 3D shapes, 7 year old programmer, JavaScript, threejs, visual arts
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 6, 2017

Pathfinding Algorithm

Simon completed Daniel Shiffman’s Pathfinding Algorithm Coding Challenge (parts 1-3) in two days and was so mesmerised by the result that he just couldn’t stop refreshing his localhost preview:  

Categories: Coding, JavaScript, Simon makes gamezTags: 7 year old programmer, Daniel Shiffman, JavaScript, P5, Pathfinding algorithm
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 6, 2017February 6, 2017

Random Walker Coding Challenge

Simon completed this coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman fairly quickly:   Simon also learned about the term Lévy flight, in math essentially the same as a “random walk” within continuous space or … Continue reading Random Walker Coding Challenge

Categories: Coding, JavaScript, Simon makes gamezTags: 7 year old programmer, Daniel Shiffman, JavaScript, levy flight, math, P5, Random Walker
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 4, 2017February 4, 2017

Shared Drawing Canvas in Cloud9

Simon has discovered a very powerful online editor (featuring over 40 languages): Cloud9. You can find it at https://c9.io Simon got himself an account and tried out his first project in … Continue reading Shared Drawing Canvas in Cloud9

Categories: Coding, JavaScript, Simon makes gamezTags: 7 year old programmer, canvas, Cloud9, Coding, Daniel Shiffman, JavaScript, Node.js
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on February 4, 2017

Simon’s JS JSON Tutorials

Simon asked me to film him giving tutorials on JavaScript JSON. He was using w3schools.com as his source.            

Categories: Coding, JavaScript, MilestonesTags: 7 year old programmer, Coding, JavaScript, JSON
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on January 30, 2017

Game with w3schools

Simon programmed this simple game with w3schools.com on Sunday in Sublime Text editor:        

Categories: Coding, html, JavaScript, Simon makes gamezTags: Coding, JavaScript, w3schools.com
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on January 30, 2017

Side Navigation in JavaScript

Some side navigation in JavaScript before you go to bed:

Categories: Coding, JavaScriptTags: Coding, JavaScript, side navigation, web development
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on January 24, 2017January 25, 2017

Cat Animation

Simon spent a couple of hours building this cat animation with LearnWebCode yesterday. The cat can change eye colour and mood. It can also move around!    

Categories: Coding, CSS, html, JavaScriptTags: CSS, html, JavaScript, LearnWebCode
By Geeks out of the Box Posted on January 24, 2017January 25, 2017

Word Interactor and Word Counter

Another attempt with the Word Interactor Coding Challenge:   Word Counter: Here the results are placed in alphabetical order:

Categories: Coding, CSS, html, JavaScript, UncategorizedTags: Coding, Daniel Shiffman, JavaScript, Word Counter, Word Interactor

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