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I just discovered this great little (portable) screen recorder utility that saves the video file as a GIF file, which is perfect for embedding in websites or ePortfolios.
To download it for yourself, visit http://www.screentogif.com/. Continue reading “ScreenToGif Utility (is awesome!)”
Today I’m giving a demo of the Thonny Python IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to my Computer Studies students. I recently learned about this editor from a post someone sent to the ACSE mail list.
Today I co-presented at the OSSTF Embracing Technology Conference. Our topic was Turtle Graphics Using Python: A Gentle Introduction to Programming.
The audience was mostly teachers new to programming, so I’m really pleased that most of them were able to keep up. It was also great to see them working in groups to solve the challenges together.
Note to self: Nested loops is a challenge for beginners. Re-think that for the next time I do this presentation!
To view the presentation for yourself, visit this link:
This is a great idea. I can see lots of applications for it once they’ve made it more stable.
https://twitter.com/pbeens/status/1000373046602092544
| Turtle Pen | |
| turtle.pen(pencolor=”red”, pensize=10, fillcolor=”black”) | Pens have attributes such as color, size, and fillcolor. |
| turtle.up() | Sets the pen state to be up (not drawing). |
| turtle.down() | Sets the pen state to be down (drawing). |
| turtle.color(r,g,b) | See below |
| turtle.color(s) | Sets the color that the pen will draw until the color is changed. It takes either 1) three arguments, each a floating point number between 0.0 — 1.0, where the first the amount of red, the second is the amount of green, and the third is the amount of blue, or 2) a “color string” the name of a TK color (e.g., “black”, “red”, “blue”, …) |
| turtle.begin_fill() | See below |
| turtle.end_fill() | To fill a figure, use turtle.begin_fill() before you start drawing the figure. Draw the figure. Then execute turtle.end_fill(). The figure drawn between the two fill commands will be filled with the present color setting. |
| turtle.hideturtle() | See below |
| turtle.showturtle() | Sets the state to hide / show the turtle. When shown, you see it as a small arrowhead pointed in the direction of the heading. |
| turtle.fill(True) | To fill a figure, use turtle.fill(True) before you start drawing the figure. The figure drawn will be filled with the present color setting. |
| Turtle Draw | |
| turtle.right(degrees) | Turns the direction that the turtle is facing right (clockwise) by the amount indicated (in degrees). |
| turtle.left(degrees) | Turns the direction that the turtle is facing left (counterclockwise) by the amount indicated (in degrees). |
| turtle.forward(distance) | Moves the turtle forward (in the direction the turtle is facing) the distance indicated (in pixels). Draws a line if the pen is down, not if the pen is up. |
| turtle.backward(distance) | Moves the turtle backward (in the direction opposite to how the turtle is facing) the distance indicated (in pixels). Draws a line if the pen is down, not if the pen is up. |
| turtle.setheading(angle) | Sets the orientation of the turtle to angle. Here are some common directions in degrees: 0 (east) 90 (north) 180 (west) 270 (south) |
| turtle.goto(x,y) | Moves the turtle to the specified coordinates, drawing a straight line to the destination (x,y) if the pen is down, and not drawing if the pen is up. |
| turtle.circle(radius) | Draws a circle of the indicated radius. The turtle draws the circle tangent to the direction the turtle is facing. |
| Turtle other | |
| turtle.xcor(),turtle.ycor() | Returns the x – coordinate / y – coordinate of the current pen position. |
| x, y = turtle.pos() | Sets the variables x and y to the turtle’s current position |
| turtle.exitonclick() or turtle.done() | To prevent the screen from closing. |
| turtle.bye() | Close the turtle drawing window |
| turtle.speed(integer) | Set the animation speed of the turtle. 1 = slowest, 10 = fastest. 0 turns off animation completely |
| turtle.shape(‘turtle’) | Set the shape. You can also choose from arrow, square, circle, triangle and classic |
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Create an infographic (Affinity Designer is recommended for this) or Google Doc or podcast or video that shows an ICT-related ethical issue which:
Be sure to give credit to all your sources!
Inspiration and credit for this assignment:
https://github.com/mrseidel-classes/ICS2O/wiki/Ethics
As part of my Python Pygame unit I am asking students to draw a landscape. Just for fun, I thought I would ask them to create a function to draw some grass at the bottom of the screen.
Here’s the function template I gave them: Continue reading “Drawing Grass in Pygame”
https://twitter.com/pbeens/status/996769796795654145
The Turtle Graphics cheatsheet can be accessed as a PDF or in Google Sheets.
View the document in a new tab here.