Use the instructions below to submit a post with your Turtlehack embedded into it.
Sharing your work
Programmers often need or want to share their work with others. We’re going to do that by making a jekyll post with our code, a screenshot of our picture, and any thoughts or reflections we have on the experience.
First you need a header:
--- layout: post author: tommytester title: Tommy's Turtle Exercise ---
Then, go to your Trinket programs and follow the instructions here to get the embed code.
Then, paste the code into the text of your post. At this point your post will look something like this:
---
layout: post
author: tommytester
title: Tommy's Turtle Exercise
---
Here's the program I'm embedding:
<iframe src="https://trinket.io/embed/python/c26c35e489" width="100%" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Static code blocks
If you want to display code that’s not interactive (to talk about something you did, for instance) , the cool grey boxes above come from telling Jekyll that we’re about to write code using backticks: `
```
# Look what I did here:
tess = turtle.Turtle()
tess.color("blue")
tess.pensize(3)
tess.forward(50)
tess.left(120)
tess.forward(50)
```
Here’s that code rendered by Jekyll:
# Look what I did here:
tess = turtle.Turtle()
tess.color("blue")
tess.pensize(3)
tess.forward(50)
tess.left(120)
tess.forward(50)
Images
Finally, if you need to embed an image, do it thusly:
That code looks like this:
Thoughts about the exercise
When submitting exercises, it’s always awesomer to include reflections, roadblocks you ran into, or things you thought were cool. Always include links to example code if you use or are heavily influnced by someone else’s work. They don’t have to be long, but the best ones give me a sense of what you did and why. Here’s a post from last class that does a good job of this: Sarah’s post from Fall 2013
Going deeper
Think the above is easy? Try your hand at writing and calling functions. We’ll get to these later but an example from our very own Grant McLendon might help inspire you: Grant’s Turtle post form Fall 2013