I actually really enjoyed messing around with the Turtle....until I didn't.
The creation of the letters themselves was relatively straightforward. Forward, right, forward, back, left, right, etc. It did take a minute for me to figure out what the numbers meant again after our work on Thursday. Once I remembered that tidbit of information, I was able to create the letters rather easily, with some troubleshooting. I was able to figure it out after several attempts for each letter and was feeling okay enough about coding in relation to creating my name.
Here are a few screenshots:
It is going pretty well until the double N. I am assuming that pen up and pen down means that the pen should lift from the page and move over. I am clearly getting a conjoined N here. Cue the frustration. I try a hundred different things and then as I sat here writing this paragraph, a light bulb went off.
I went back to troubleshooting and finally got this:
Progress! Now I just need to figure out the rest of the letters.
Cue frustration round 2:
I played around with this for more subsequent hours without making much headway. I think my frustration level was just not elevating to let me take a step back and think it through. Perhaps, my brain is just not made for coding. I am hoping in class we can go over the "pen up, pen down" and subsequent commands so that I can figure out what I was doing wrong and actually progress past it. It is hard cause I feel like I have a solid understanding and know what does what, yet there is still this gap with my work.
It is safe to say that there is much work to do!
Annie! This was great to read. Looks like the turtle was messing around with YOU! :) I found myself far more emotional about my turtle/self relationship than I had expected. I love the way you pushed through to the 'light bulb moment' on your 'Ns'. What was it? The pu/pd move? Crazy, right? It's so intuitive because we literally pick up and down our pens when we write yet it eluded me for hours. Guess we're all doing too much computer typing. 🙄 Really great post!
ReplyDeleteThis was a great attempt and you were really close multiple times it looks like! Don't worry, we all have a lot of the same questions and I think actually learning what the Python code looks like is a little more intuitive anyway than the turtle blocks program. Most of the time it is just one tiny pesky error/adjustment in the code that can fix it all. I am with you though, this isn't easy at all! Keep at it - you're doing awesome!
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