Repl.it – Geeks out of the box

By Geeks out of the Box May 1, 2021May 14, 2021

Neva’s first coding tut

Neva has recorded her first video explaining how she coded a project, a mini-tutorial. It’s an example of a visualization using classes and arrays in JS. You can also access … Continue reading Neva’s first coding tut

By Geeks out of the Box April 19, 2021November 8, 2022

What Geeks Do for Easter Egg Hunt 🥚

Simon has been hiding so-called “easter eggs” on his Discord server, i.e. hidden surprises that can be anything ranging from a character code to a math puzzle, for his friends … Continue reading What Geeks Do for Easter Egg Hunt 🥚

By Geeks out of the Box January 25, 2021May 15, 2021

Simon and Abhay have made a favorite game rise from the ashes

My friend Abhay Kashyap and I have recreated the game AddEmUp! It was a flash game, so you can’t play the original any more. Link: https://addemup.abhayandsimon.repl.co After Adobe first deprecated … Continue reading Simon and Abhay have made a favorite game rise from the ashes

By Geeks out of the Box October 2, 2020October 2, 2020

Squangular numbers

Simon has created a Python program that looks for “squangular” numbers. 36 is both a square number (6×6 square of things makes 36 things) and a triangular number (8×8 triangle … Continue reading Squangular numbers

By Geeks out of the Box September 21, 2020

Fooling Java

I wanted to get Java to mix the order of the numbers between -128 and 127. I think there’s no way to do that because the shuffling algorithm would break … Continue reading Fooling Java

By Geeks out of the Box September 9, 2020September 9, 2020

ProLang: Simon’s first jam submission

Amidst all the traveling in August, Simon was working on his first serious coding competition submission. Together with a friend from Australia, he was building a new programming language called … Continue reading ProLang: Simon’s first jam submission

By Geeks out of the Box June 26, 2020June 26, 2020

A Small Program that Doubles Itself

I wrote a small program that copies itself. When the program doubles itself it executes itself twice. The code that doubles itself is now doubled. The second time you run … Continue reading A Small Program that Doubles Itself

By Geeks out of the Box October 26, 2019

Code Solving Towers of Hanoi

Simon has written a short Python code solving the Towers of Hanoi puzzle: https://repl.it/@simontiger/Towers-of-Hanoi

By Geeks out of the Box July 30, 2019July 30, 2019

It takes the sun to the ground, and violet on the observer’s eye.

Simon writes: This amazing sentence is generated by a Markov Text-Generation Algorithm. What is a Markov Algorithm? Simply put, it generates the rules from a source text, and it generates … Continue reading It takes the sun to the ground, and violet on the observer’s eye.

By Geeks out of the Box June 7, 2019June 7, 2019

Infinite Series Calculator in Repl.it

Simon has made a small calculator/approximator in Repl.it that shows what number an infinite series converges to: https://repl.it/@simontiger/Series

By Geeks out of the Box May 29, 2019May 29, 2019

Simon’s new “giant project”: Sorting Visualizations

Simon writes: I’ve built a giant project; a website / community project / platform for making algorithms! I’ve built in this video Bubble Sort, Selection Sort, Insertion Sort, Mergesort, Quicksort, … Continue reading Simon’s new “giant project”: Sorting Visualizations

By Geeks out of the Box June 25, 2017June 26, 2017

Back to Python (and C#)!

Simon was preoccupied with vector functions for most of the day on Saturday, compiling what, at first site, looked like a monstrously excessive code in Processing (he recycled some of … Continue reading Back to Python (and C#)!