Ice-Cream Drawing App

Revised Milestones:

• determine layout of the game
• create instructions function to display instructions of game
• determine toppings
• create turtles for each topping
• create ice cream cone functions
• create function for each of the toppings (cherry, chocolate chips, sprinkles, whipped cream, caramel, fudge, gummies (use for loop))
• create restart turtle
• create restart function
• create Option functions to change state of topping turtles
• create clicky function
• troubleshoot problems (there is a small problem, not with the functionality, that I mention in detail in my reflection)
• add comments to program

Reflection:

My plan for this program changed throughout the entire time I worked on it, as did my milestones. Initially, I created buttons for the topping options available. I was able to make it so the user could click on the button and then the topping would be drawn depending on the button selected, however, I wasn’t able to get it to draw the topping when the user clicked elsewhere on the screen. I knew I needed to include multiple onclick functions by nesting them into a larger function, but I wasn’t getting my buttons to work the way I intended them to. Initially I was able to get the clicky functions for the toppings inside of the larger clicky function for the screen, however, I noticed that I needed another function to make my program work the way I intended for it to. Before meeting with my partner I had already created several functions for drawing different toppings and for drawing the ice-cream cone.

Below is an embedded version of my trinket that I showed my partner during the Drawing App check-in (this version is different than the one embedded into the blog post due before this date because I ended up working on it more after I created the blog post).

When discussing this post with my partner I explained the problem I was having with my program. She suggested that I try using clicky turtles instead of boxes like in the example from class (“Tommy’s Clicky Turtle”). I tried using turtles and turtle.onclick and I was closer to getting what I wanted to do. Using the turtles instead of boxes/buttons made it so that my criteria was easier to select. This also enabled me to call a function outside of my clicky function and use the result of that function as a criteria for the if/elif statements in my clicky function that I used when for screen.onclick. By doing this I was able to reduce the amount of errors I had than my previous method. In my previous method I used the coordinates of the boxes I created as the conditions for the if/elif statements in my clicky function. This allowed me to call the functions when those boxes were selected, however, I became limited in the actions I could allow the user to perform by doing this.

Currently, I have a problem with my program where after selecting a topping and then switching to another turtle topping, the previous topping will print on or near the second turtle I select. I am able to draw a different topping afterward, but I have yet to figure out a way to solve the issue.