a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
Simon has made a pull request to the p5.Speech GitHub repo (a milestone!) and hopes his request gets merged. In this video he explains what he wants to improve with … Continue reading Simon contributes to the p5.Speech library
Simon made a particle system based on Daniel Shiffman’s latest live stream. Here is the link to Simon’s code on CodePen: https://codepen.io/simontiger/pen/OxvYYW?editors=0010 He also tweeted about it: #particletrain https://t.co/LDvVuWtQ6B pic.twitter.com/Mv0yJ64Jyh — … Continue reading Simon’s Particle Train
Inspired by Daniel Shiffman’s recent live stream on chat bots, Simon made two chat bots himself. He seems to really enjoy the logic behind programming bot conversations. Daniel Shiffman even … Continue reading Simon’s Chat Bots
It’s great that Simon continues to find the time to teach me some JavaScript. We’re now done with the Basic course he had prepared, below are some impressions. The video … Continue reading Lessons for Mom continued
Inspired by the Processing Community Day projects, Simon came up with an idea to launch his own community project – in procedural design. He used the Coding Train Community Cloud … Continue reading Simon Proposes a Community Project in Procedural Design
A simple code creating a beautiful pattern using text: Based on a coding challenge by Daniel Shiffman, where he created a version of the classic one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program in … Continue reading 10 PRINT in p5.js and Python. Emulating a text console.
Simon has continued with server side programming and made a spellcheck API! Here is the link, you can play with it yourself by adding new words to the corpus (dictionary): … Continue reading Simon’s Spellcheck API
Simon has made his version of Daniel Shiffman’s Wikipedia Crawler, graphing the relatedness between Wikipedia articles. Play with it yourself online at: https://simon-tiger.github.io/wikipedia-crawler/wikipedia/ Code: https://github.com/simon-tiger/wikipedia-crawler/ Simon writes: How it Works … Continue reading Wikipedia Crawler
A milestone in server side programming here, as Simon has built a text generating machine that posts to Simon’s Twitter account! Essentially, it’s website where anyone can enter his own … Continue reading Text Generating Machine that Posts to Twitter
Oops, the Magformers are back in our life. I thought that Simon was over Magformers (which he built with excessively when he was six), but he has picked them up … Continue reading The Magformers saga continued
Simon has created a beautiful little website with a tutorial (that he wrote completely on his own, from scratch) on how to build a superellipse in JavaScript. Here is the link: https://thimbleprojects.org/simontiger/315031/ … Continue reading Simon’s Superellipse tutorial on Thimble
Homeschooling reversed. Every day during our vacation, Simon was pushing me through a crash course in JavaScript. He had lessons meticulously planned way ahead, with all the examples, and insisted … Continue reading Homeschooling reversed
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