Check out this awesome Trinket that takes user input and draws fun shapes using Tina the Turtle!

In the below code I had fun exploring the coordinate plane of the screen on Trinket. Tina, by default, started at point (0,0). I wanted Tina to connect the end points of the x- and y-axes into a diamond that filled the screen. It was very useful to know that the diameter of the screen was 200. I could have used the penup() function of tina to not draw a line through the middle of the screen, but I actually kind of liked it in the design!

#Draw a diamond at the ends of the coordinate plane
tina.goto(200,0)
tina.stamp()
tina.goto(0,200)
tina.stamp()
tina.goto(-200,0)
tina.stamp()
tina.goto(0,-200)
tina.goto(200,0)
tina.goto(-200,0)
tina.goto(0,-200)

Below, I wanted to see how Tina drew a circle. Did Tina start in the center of the circle? If not, where? Turns out Tina starts at the bottom of the circle, so a circle of diameter 200 (tina.circle(200)) was circumscribed in the screen.

#Draw a 200 diameter circle
tina.circle(200)

#Draw and fill a 100 diameter circle
tina.begin_fill()
tina.circle(100)
tina.end_fill()

Overall this was a very fun exercise. I had fun changing up the colors of tina and her screen, and also experimenting with the various functions in the module turtle, for example: goto(), stamp(), circle() and begin_fill()/end_fill().

I’m looking forward to learning conditionals and Turtlehack!

• Halina