Project: Turtle Art

What you will need

• A computer or tablet capable of accessing the online interactive Python environment called Trinket. You can create a trinket.io account using your google school account; or

• If you don’t want to create an account you can use the embedded interactive trinkets below to run code and see what happens; or

• You can use a computer that has the Python programme installed.

Step 1: Let's get started

1. Sign in to your trinket.io account, click on your name and then select ‘New Trinket’ and ‘Python’ from the drop-down menus.

2. Use this link to go to the Code Club online project: projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/modern-art

3. Follow each step in the project, type code into your own trinket. You can look at the embedded trinket below for help if you get stuck.

4. You will see another new way to import the Turtle library, from turtle import * imports all the turtle functions and means you no longer need to type turtle. or t. in front of the commands e.g. you can now type forward(100) instead of t.forward(100). The same applies when we import the random module.

Step 2: Create your own images

1. Use what you have learned about creating functions to draw shapes to make your own computer generated pictures. Below are trinkets for two ideas I had about drawing smiley faces and a house.

2. Maybe you could make a boat, a train, a flower, a diagram of the solar system, the choices are endless!