Panda Scene

Objective

Create a scene that includes a passable reproduction of a panda (or other animal) to refresh your understanding of why sequence – order of statements – matters when writing code.

What you'll need to begin

• The Playgrounds app installed on your computer
• Another copy of the Sketches Template added to your list of playgrounds, renamed to be titled Panda Scene
• Your black, hardcover, graph paper notebook
• Writing instruments, including a ruler or straight edge

Success criteria

• a hand-drawn plan is made using a storyboard approach, to help think through the necessary sequence of steps to create at least part of your drawing
• a recognizable image of a panda (or another animal) is drawn in Playgrounds
• good use of fills, borders, and color is applied to create a background scene
• code includes concise comments that describe intent
• code is correctly indented
• Playground is regularly backed up by making duplicates, using filenames like:
  • Panda Scene
  • Panda Scene v2
  • Panda Scene v3
  • et cetera

Exemplar

This rough plan does not include any co-ordinates and does not need to – the numbered storyboards make it clear what order shapes will be drawn in, and when those shapes will be filled:

This finished product makes great use of overlapping shapes to create a compelling scene:

Exploring and Getting Started

As always, try typing turtle. to see what capabilities the turtle instance of the Tortoise class offers:

Here is an example showing the code that reproduces the start of the exemplar:

Portfolio entries

Be sure to share your plan in a portfolio post before you write code.

Share an update at the end of today's class on your progress.

When you finish your work on this task, please make a post in your portfolio on Notion and share whatever you feel describes your understanding. As well, please respond to these prompts:

• Where in your code was sequence especially important? Provide a short code excerpt and speak to this.
• Provide examples showing how you made your code as readable as possible, and describe specific strategies you used to author readable code.

Learning goals

Successful completion of this task is great evidence of progress toward mastering learning goals 1, 4, and 5.