The first thing I wanted to do was to incorporate more randomness in the presentation, so I had the background color generate randomly using randint for the red green and blue values. I next needed to make sure the text stayed within the box, so I moved the turtle to the top of the box at the beginning and had it move 20 pixels down to before writing a line. I set up a variable to track the turtle’s x and y positions, and put an if statement that ends the program if the turtle goes below the bottom of the screen (y < -180). I figured out how to use a monospace font to make it easier to count the horizontal spaces. I spent some time trying to figure out how to make a loop that would divide lines that are too long into shorter lines, but I ran out of time. The last thing I did was to add a compliment when the user finished, because those are always nice.
Matt's poetry slam turtle
by Matt Zimo
Matt Zimo is an information science grad student at UNC Chapel Hill. Go Vols! Find Matt Zimo on Twitter, Github, and on the web.