Here’s the game:

Reflection:
It seemed like this program was supposed to be a game, and when I think of games that have something to do with drawing, I think of hangman and tic tac toe. I decided to go with tic tac toe because it interested me the most. I started out just drawing the “#” board, and from there I needed to have a way for the user to tell the turtle where to draw for their turn. I decided labeling each option with a color and telling the player to pick a color would be easiest for the player. From there, I made the turtle draw the player’s symbol in the place they chose.

Instead of just leaving it at that, I also decided to have the game detect when somebody has won, so the players didn’t overlook anything. For this, I had to keep track of the symbols at all 9 places on the board and check for all possible winning lines across the board. Once I did that, I took it another step forward by addressing the issue of what to do if a user types invalid input. I decided that if the player mistyped the color they chose, or if that color was already taken, they would forfeit their turn. I just thought that added a fun little layer to the game when two people are playing against each other. Of course, that brought up another issue. If a player can forfeit their turn an infinite number of times, they have to be able to give an infinite number of inputs. So I put that part of the code in an infite loop that could only be broken by raising an error caused by the end of the game.

The except clause that catches this error checks if it was a tie game or if somebody actually won. If someone won, I made the turtle do a little colorful celebratory spin. If it was a tie, the turtle still spins, but it’s a dull spin. Once everyhting was put together, I played with the colors on the screen and messed with the sizes of the X’s and O’s to make everything look nice and polished.