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Heard Simon give his Russian grandparents a lecture in the playroom, via FaceTime. When I came in, this is what I saw on the whiteboard. Simon proudly said he figured … Continue reading Teaching SOHCAHTOA to Grandmom in Russian
This morning Simon attempted to make a more difficult translation in the Codea app of an example from Daniel Shiffman’s book The Nature of Code (Java) into Lua. It concerned the Gravitational Attraction example … Continue reading Translating examples from The Nature of Code into Lua (Codea)
Simon created an engine that uses trigonometrical (polar coordinates) formulas to produce beautiful roses. He reproduced the code originally created by Daniel Shiffman from memory and searched for the formulas … Continue reading Polar Roses in JavaScript
Since Simon has been using so much trigonometry in his programming lately, we decided to review some SOH-CAH-TOA during his regular math classes and did some Brilliant.org quizzes: Simon also enjoyed … Continue reading Math > Back to Brilliant.org to train Trigonometry
This is so exciting! Simon has written his first Java code completely on his own! It’s an animation of the Archimedean spiral (well, we only found out later that it’s actually called … Continue reading Simon’s first own code: Archimedean spiral in Processing (Java).
Simon showed me 3D trigonometrical functions (like tan(x) or cos(x*y*9^10) in his Solve calculator app and we were surprised at their incredible resemblance with forests and flower fields. I mean, is there anyone … Continue reading Forests and Flower Fields
Today Simon tried the Spherical Geometry coding challenge from Daniel Shiffman’s awesome channel. It involved programming a globe in Processing (using Java), using trigonometrical equations with longitudes and latitudes. Here Simon … Continue reading Spherical Geometry coding challenge
This is what Simon does quite a lot lately – giving prolonged math “lectures” to an imaginable audience or rather, as he confessed, to himself. He stares into the empty … Continue reading Simon’s Lectures
Geeks out of the box 