Q & A
- Drafts vs Saving in Trinket
- Reflections: Thank you! Great to see the thought you put into these.
- Seeing old code with new eyes is so valuable
- Nice problem solving attitudes! I saw so many feels in your posts:
- confidence
- infuriating
- furtrating
- centered
- wrestled
- enjoyed
- helpful
- persistence
- beautiful
- nervous
- fun
- “driver of my struggle bus”
- “not nearly as horrible as I feared it would be”
- “With continuous practice and effort put into the exercises, I can become a great programmer.”
!!
- I’m not lying when I say that knowing how you’re feeling is a core competency of programming.
- Supportive community of people learning to code: http://www.codenewbie.org/
- Pair programming feedback (disclaimer: I like 3 hour classes much better)
Kudos
There were lots of great refactors. Will’s is an example of that:
Tracer and Update
.tracer(x) makes the animation update only every x frames, which makes it go faster. If you use .tracer(0), no frames will update. What?
Never fear: .update() will force the animation to be redrawn. Setting tracer to 0 then updating can be a way to instantly set up your screen.
.tracer(1000) is used in the tetris program because so many animations are happening they need to skip 999 of them to make it a playable game.
Kudos to those of you who figured this out and started messing with them. Use these tools in your drawing app!
Refactoring
Remote Classes
They’re coming! Let’s talk details real quick.
Remember this?
tina.click() is an easy way to make a button. When Yiyang (I think it was) did this, she made a colored
dot under a triangular turtle to make buttons. Get creative! See also the upcoming videos.
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