Some Turtle Commands you can Try

Here are some more turtle commands you can try out:

Set the background colour of your window

•     bgcolor("orange")

Moving forward and back, Turning left and right

• forward() or fd()    eg forward(100)
• backward()  or bk()  or  back()
• right() or rt()   eg right(45) turns right 45 degrees
• left() or  lt()

Moving to a position

• goto(x,y)   eg goto(100,200) or goto(-100, 200)

Point in a direction

• setheading()   eg setheading(200)

    Note heading 0 points to the right, 90 is straight up etc

Pen Commands

• pendown() or  pd()
• penup() or pu()
• pensize()
• pencolor()   eg pencolor("green")

When the turtle has its pen up, it moves without drawing.

Erasing

• undo()
• clearscreen()

Other commands to experiment with

Take care not to type any spaces at the beginning of any lines.  Python is very fussy about where you start your lines.

Here are some programs for you to try out: Write and save your own programs to draw: A Triangle A Filled Hexagon Your initials

Write programs to do the following drawings:

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