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Simon got quite far in the Solar System Generator Coding Challenge by Daniel Shiffman. He got stuck when he was supposed to make the Sun, the planets and their moons … Continue reading Solar System Generator Coding Challenge
A regular expression is a sequence of characters that defines a search pattern. I’ve made some videos about them:
Simon has completed Daniel Shiffman’s Mad Libs Generator Coding Challenge – a fun word game where one fills in a google form and the words filled in are then used … Continue reading Mad Libs Generator Coding Challenge
Simon has found a new text editor he really likes: Atom.io He says he likes it because of its special searcher function, which can use regex (regular expressions). A regular … Continue reading Atom.io
The JavaScript Word Interactor changes word details (colour, background colour, text). The Word Counter counts how often a word appears in a text. Simon learned about Word Interactor and Word … Continue reading Word Interactor and Word Counter
Simon didn’t finish this coding challenge. He went as far as building a spaceship and controlling it. He also made it reappear after it hit the edges. He got stuck with … Continue reading Spacecraft
Familiar synth noises at our home again! This time synthesized in JavaScript. Simon has been following Daniel Shiffman’s Sound Tutorials and studied the codes to create oscillators and ADSR Envelope. … Continue reading Sound Synthesis in JavaScript
A beautiful and simple coding project in JavaScript – 3D objects rotating in space. In P5.
With this simple JavaScript code you can make a webcam!
In this video Simon explains the method of querySelectorAll in JavaScript. He used it for a SVG challenge from LearnWebCode. Unfortunately, after several hours of work, when he was nearly there, the … Continue reading Focus on the process
Some other things Simon programmed this week were: A programming webpage in html Crazy multiple cursors in JavaScript Even crazier multiple sliders in JavaScript Here the multiple sliders are programmed … Continue reading You also need the sin and the cos for crazy multiple sliders
Geeks out of the box 