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Intro to Python with Tracy the Turtle (2022)

Description

In this lesson, students are introduced to coding with turtle graphics. Students will begin to recognize programs as sequences and groups of commands. Students will learn a few basic commands and then apply them right away by writing their first program.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Define programming/coding
  • Use basic Tracy commands
  • Write their first program
Description

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the layout of Tracy’s grid world and will learn how to use coordinate pairs to locate Tracy on the coordinate plane. They will add to the list of commands they know and can use to create Tracy graphics.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Locate Tracy on the coordinate plane
  • Use the penup(), pendown(), and backward() commands in their programs