Intro to Programming with 🐢Turtles🐢

• Getting started
  • Welcome!
  • How to use this course
  • Computer programming and failure
  • What you’ll need
  • What is Python, exactly?
  • Using Python
• Alternative Python Setup
  • Noteable
  • Python and a text editor
• Simple drawing with turtle
  • Introduction
  • Resetting the turtle display
  • Drawing a square
  • Drawing a rectangle
  • More squares
• A bit of history
  • Who invented turtle graphics?
  • Why is it called a turtle?
  • What’s the advantage of turtle graphics?
  • Extra question: Why Python and not Logo?
  • Credits
• Variables
  • Introduction
  • A variable called angle
  • The house of santa claus
• Loops
  • Introduction
  • Drawing a dashed line
  • Comments
  • More Efficient Squares
• User-defined functions
  • Introduction
  • A function for a square
  • A function for a hexagon
• Functions with parameters
  • Introduction
  • A parameterized function for a variable size hexagon
  • A function of several parameters
• Conditional statements
  • Introduction
  • Examples
  • Giving Directions
  • “data munging”
• Conditional Loops
  • Introduction
  • Turtle prison
  • Draw a spiral
• Logical operators
  • Introduction
  • Negation of a statement
  • This and that or something else
• Where to go from here
  • Learning Python
  • What to do with Python
• License
  • Contributors