Utah Introduction to Python 2

Lesson 1.1 Refresher: Challenges with Tracy

Description

In this lesson, students review the concepts and commands they should be familiar with before beginning the course. They complete a few Tracy challenges on their own and then have a chance to work with a partner to create a larger, scaffolded project developing a digital art platform.

Objective

Students will be able to:

Review the following concepts:
- for loops
  - using i as a variable
  - using extended parameters for stop and increment
- commenting
- functions
  - parameters
  - return values
- data types and casting
- formatting strings
  - escape sequences
  - concatenation
  - format
- user input
- clickable interaction
- if/elif/else statements
- while loops
  - forever loops using break
Review the following commands:
- forward
- circle
  - with and without extended parameters for extent and steps
- penup
- pendown
- goto / setposition
- setx
- sety
- left
- right
- setheading / seth
- bgcolor
- speed
- color
  - using color names and hex codes
- begin_fill / end_fill
- pensize
- write
- type
- print
- String methods:
  - capitalize
  - upper
  - lower
  - isalpha
  - isdigit / isnumeric
  - isupper
  - islower
  - startswith
  - endswith
- input
- onclick
- getscreen
- return
- break