Programming

  • Writing Fractions In HTML

    I have been thinking about digitising my notes of mathematics and physics exercises done over the years and one option would be to add them to my blog. As I don’t have a business subscription I cannot use a math editor. One option available to me is to use LATEX but for some of the…

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  • Swift Playgrounds

    A year ago, at the beginning of the first lockdown we started with Swift playgrounds at home on the iPad to teach our 10 year old son Merijn a bit of coding. I had looked at it earlier but then it wasn’t available yet in Dutch. Last year it was and with a lot of…

  • Personal Web Page Developments

    Near the end of the previous millennium my internet provider brought ADSL connections to the market and I subscribed to the service. No more dial in connections with a modem over the phone line. With the service came an email address with a couple of aliases and the possibility to host your own personal homepage.…

  • MOOC

    I am currently following a Coursera based IBM Professional Certificate on Data Analysis. Finished the first 7 courses and now busy with the Capstone Project. I’ve followed a couple of online courses over the years from various sites like DataCamp, Stanford, Udacity and so on. But it all started with an experiment in 2011 when…

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  • Python For Everybody

    A year or 2 ago I followed a course from the University of Michigan on Coursera called Python For Everybody to learn the basics of python. The course is not a traditional computer language programming course but more oriented to learning techniques to handle data sources like text files, database records, web pages and so…

  • Happy birthday Java

    Today, May 23rd 2020 Java turns 25.