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This was one of the LearnWebCode challenges Simon did this week. It involved using Handlebars (a tool for JavaScript) to create a webpage about pets. Simon programmed the webpage on his RaspberryPi. … Continue reading Making a webpage
Simon made another beautiful visual graphic in P5 today. In the video below he explains the use of trigonometric formulas inside the code. The code itself comes from Daniel Shiffman’s … Continue reading Coding Challenge #19
Yesterday Simon made a painting program using JavaScript in P5. Here he changed the code to make the colours transparent: Changed the code to name the program “Painting … Continue reading Simon Made a Painting Program
I’m increasingly in awe of Simon’s hunger for deeply abstract constructions and meanings. He loves talking about what he’s just learned and the subject often sounds difficult to grasp at … Continue reading JavaScript Numbers. Understanding of abstract concepts.
Simon gave me a very informative lecture on bitwise operators (operators working on one bit at a time) on Monday. He used the w3schools.com website as reference: … Continue reading Bitwise Operators
Two years ago in Amsterdam, Simon (aged 5) was allowed to attend a gifted class for two hours a day. During the breaks he used to play the Agar.io game … Continue reading Agar.io with P5
“Well, do you know what pi divided by four is? That’s an eighth of the full rotation!” – I hear Simon talk to himself in English from the living room. … Continue reading This is what you need math for
Guess what happened when I told Simon that Khan Academy doesn’t only teach math, but also has loads of computer programming tutorials? He was so excited he finished 38 percent of … Continue reading HTML/JS: Making webpages interactive with jQuery (Khan Academy)
Look Mom, Simon said today, in math there is something called the absolute value. What is the absolute value of -4,7? It’s 4,7! (I think he learned it from his … Continue reading Absolutely beautiful
On Tuesday and Wednesday Simon spent a great deal of his time training himself JavaScript on the w3schools.com website. He explained every action to me in great detail, it amused and … Continue reading JavaScript: Simon masters Infinity
We’re reading Roald Dahl’s “Matilda” and Simon loves the fact that Matilda is gifted. He also thought it was funny he also knows another Dahl, Ryan Dahl. Here comes a … Continue reading Roald Dahl vs. Ryan Dahl
Didn’t really feel like going to his first Fench class this morning. All he wanted to do before and after French class was program: We were utterly shattered when at … Continue reading PiTop, day 2 (Tuesday)
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