Submit a well-formatted pull request to our class blog with embedded Trinket programs for the below exercises. Complete these on your own, using any materials you need. Do not look at other students’ submissions until after you’ve completed your work.

After your programs are done, check other students’ work and other resources online if you had questions. Include a reflection about what you think you’ve learned and any concepts that are still fuzzy to you. Did you encounter frustrating situations? Did you feel a lightbulb turn on?

Create a program that

• Creates a hidden treasure at a random location
• Asks the user for X and Y coordinates (and handles bad input) OR…
  • For an extra challenge, accepts click events
• Sends a turtle to those coordinates
• Gives the user feedback on how close they are to the treasure (e.g. changes the turtle’s Color, changes the Screen’s background color, writes a message to the screen)
• If the user is within 5 pixels of the treasure, they win. Play the congratulations animation

I’ve made some starter code for you to Remix that includes the animation and random elements you’ll need:

This sample code uses some things we haven’t seen yet:

The while loop is something we haven’t covered yet, but it repeats as long as the expression after it evaluates to True. We exit the loop when the user has won.

The random module is one we haven’t seen yet, but is very useful in Turtle programs. I use it to generate random numbers for you and in the animation.

The animations.py file is a custom module. Custom modules are basically a way of organizing code so it’s more managable. I import the function instead of defining it in main.py, getting it out of the way.

Get Creative!

As our first game sketch, this assignment offers lots of opportunity to get creative. Make sure to pace yourself and run your code often if you’re experiementing. You can Duplicate/Make a Copy of your code on Trinket if you want to experiment without worrying about breaking your assignment.

Done with the main assignment early? sSome areas to challenge yourself:

• Get creative with your success animation
• Give the user feedback that they’ve found the treasure by making a special turtle visible when they find it
• (Advanced) Implement ‘Mines’ in your game, which are like treasure except they display a ‘You Lost’ animation when the user hits them.